Title: Leveraging Rails to Build FaceBook Applications by Dave Keener (+ RVM and Gemsets by Dave Bock).
When: Wednesday Sept 15, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Register: Cick here!
Location:
Near Infinity HQ1881 Campus Commons Drive Suite 205
Reston, VA 20191
Call 703 727-1307 (Gray's cell phone) if you have trouble getting in.
Parking: There is plenty of parking out in front of the building or in the garage behind it.
Food: Pizza and Sodas will be provided by Near Infinity Corporation.
Description: This talk is a distillation of some of the practical tactics that Dave's development team at MetroStar Systems has used to create highly successful FaceBook applications using Rails, including real-life systems like PollCast and Iran Voices. Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over 400 million members. The talk also discusses the ramifications of the latest game-changing announcements from Facebook's F8 Conference and how these changes are affecting Facebook development.
The second talk will be a quick presentation by Dave Bock on using RVM and Gemsets to better organize your projects.
Speaker Bio: David Keener is a solutions architect for MetroStar Systems, a fast-growing consulting firm in the Washington DC metropolitan area providing services to government agencies, non-profit organizations and the commercial sector. Dave has over 23 years of experience, specializing in Ruby, Rails, social media and (sometimes) even Java. He is a frequent public speaker at user groups and conferences, as well as a founder of the RubyNation Conference. He also blogs regularly on Internet-related subjects at KeenerTech.com.
Dave Bock is a principal at CodeSherpas, a software consultancy based in Northern Virginia that has been doing a lot of Rails work since 2006.