Posts tagged soopa

May17

Meeting: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 7-9PM

CoffeeScript Mattt Thompson mattt soopa Adam Michela Sass

This month at Austin on Rails, we’ll be diving into CoffeeScript and Sass, two technologies which are being bundled into Rails 3.1. Much love to Adam Michela for organizing.

Introducing CoffeeScript - Mattt Thompson

CoffeeScript will ship with Rails 3.1 to replace RJS as the preferred way to dynamically generate JavaScript. It’s a new language that takes the best parts of Ruby, Python, and others to ease the worst parts of JavaScript. You should learn it not just because it’s the new kid on the Rails block, but because it will expand your mind, and make you a better programmer. This presentation will take you through the basics of CoffeeScript, starting with a crash course in syntax, all the way to a working application.

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Apr08

Meeting: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 7-9PM

redis memcache design dave rupert adam michela richard schneeman soopa schneems davatron5000

This month at Austin on Rails is guaranteed to take you on a magical journey. We’ve scheduled two talks that will inspire you; one that will change the way you make friends and another that will make you want to redesign your app. This month’s meeting is organized by Dave Rupert.

How Richard Found Friends - Richard Schneeman

So you’ve got a social web application, and you’ve got users, but you’ve got a problem…your throngs of users could be a tad more social. Your mission is to make your service more useful to your users, by helping them to find friends and stay active.

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