I'll bring a projector from the Barquin office to use. Let me check... On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Henry Baragar wrote: > > > On March 29, 2011 08:32:49 am Mark Sobkowicz wrote: > > > I am coming down to Baltimore in May for RailsConf, and I want to say > I'd > > > be very, very sad if there were no BoF evening devoted to Hobo. > > > > > > Mark > > Matt Jones and I led a BOF last year. There was lots of interest, but no > users other than ourselves. > > I would be prepared to help lead a BOF again this year and could make up > a few slides to get the discussion going. > > Henry > > +1 on doing this again; the only issue with slides would be that (unless > they're changing it this year) there weren't projectors available for the > BoF sessions. (the Bohconf folks scraped one up for the session with Yehuda > Katz, but that was an anomaly). > > Here's the proposal I threw together at the last minute last year; > additions / revisions / suggestions appreciated! > > Description: > Hobo is a set of Rails extensions with a singular goal: write less code. > Come learn more and meet fellow Hobo developers. > > Abstract: > From Hobocentral.net: What is Hobo? > > Hobo is a collection of open-source gems/plugins for Ruby on Rails that > help you build anything from throwaway prototypes and internal utilities to > meticulously crafted full-blown web apps. The goal: write less code. So much > less in fact that it starts to feel like you’re not implementing your app at > all, you’re just declaring what you want. > > It turns out that the hard part is not going fast, but staying flexible. > This is where we think Hobo really shines. If you’ve played with “app > builders” before, you’ll know about The Wall. The Wall is the point you > reach where you have to give up and do it the old way because that one > feature you really need just isn’t going to happen. Hobo doesn’t have one. > > --Matt Jones > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- - Owen Owen Dall, Chief Systems Architect Barquin International www.barquin.com Cell: 410-991-0811 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
