BarCamp is an "event for the Portland tech community, produced BY the Portland tech community. Interesting topics, cool people, great networking opportunities, wifi, free food and bubble tea!" More details: http://barcamp.org/BarCampPortland
I'll be giving a free presentation there that may be of interest to those on the list that haven't worked much with Rails yet but want to know more about it and get an objective comparison of how it stacks up against other frameworks: *"*Business Benefits of Rails" -- An easy-to-follow presentation for business leaders and those interested in getting high-quality custom web applications delivered quickly. No programming experience is expected, this presentation will provide business-friendly, plain English answers to: What is Ruby on Rails? How it can help your business? How you can maximize ROI and avoid pitfalls with it? Preliminary PDF slides: http://koshevoy.com/presentations/business_rails.pdf I'll also be giving a second free presentation there, which I posted about earlier: "Scaling Rails Applications" -- Practical solutions for making Ruby on Rails fast enough for use on high-traffic websites. Discusses tools and recipes used for optimizing performance, clustering, management and hosting. This technical talk is aimed at programmers and system administrators that want to speed up existing Rails applications or want to do so in the future. Preliminary PDF slides: http://koshevoy.com/presentations/scaling_rails_slides.pdf See you there. -igal _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
