Hi Kenneth,
I read your presentation. I think it is a great introduction to
capistrano and I hope it gets them excited!

best regards,
John

On May 29, 12:52 am, "Kenneth Kalmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've got the privilege of giving a presentation on Thursday night (19:00 GMT
> +2) at Tshwane University of Technology on Capistrano, and TDD/BDD. Two
> different topics, two different presentations.
>
> I've attached the Cap presentation (hoping it gets through), and would like
> to solicit some feedback from everyone.
>
> The target audience can be briefly summed up like this:
>  - Final year students
>  - One semester exposure to Rails
>  - Already had lectures on Capistrano, I bring in some real world examples
>  - Heavy PHP background, and PHP biased (based on my earlier interactions
> with the students)
>  - Limited Linux exposure
>
> The presenter can be summed up like this:
>  - Loves digging in the cap source for answers, and not Google
>  - Uses cap for everything except making coffee (albeit getting there...)
>  - Have been using it so long I don't even know what the basic struggles are
> for new users anymore
>  - Has one project that takes 40 minutes to deploy on 4 production servers
> (don't ask, its a rather unfortunate serious of events that have to be
> completed on deployment)
>
> My goal is to get them excited. The presentation is very small, but I made
> some custom text movies using Jamis's TextMovie class from the RailsConf
> 2007 presentation to show them how a deployment looks across 4 servers, how
> to console, download logs, rake, etc... Also showing them some other neat
> tricks around system commands across multiple servers.
>
> My focus is not on Rails but on Capistrano, although Rails is used in the
> presentation extensively. I'll be discussing PHP deployments with them as
> well, and options for deploying other projects to various mediums (so to
> speak). For most of the later part of the session I'll be getting them to
> drive the questions and I'll answer by example.
>
> Presentation will be going up on my blog as well, together with some
> feedback from the students.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Kenneth Kalmer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]://opensourcery.co.za
>
>  20080529 - Capistrano.pdf
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