I think I'd be interested, depending on how it was structured. Back in 2006 I attended a "Rails Guidebook" given by Dave Thomas and Mike Clark. I'd been using Rails at work for about a year so didn't know how much I would learn from a session that assumes no prior experience. As it turned out, I learned a lot. Dave and Mike don't assume knowledge but they don't dumb it down either. They take you to advanced topics very quickly.
I'd like it as a refresher. I'd also like it to get into detail about the rails specific stuff. So if you could make it like that, I'd love it. Do you want to cover configuration, replication, etc? Or just programming side? - Mike On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Xavier Shay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > There was bit of twitter interest in this today so here I am fleshing > out the concept. > > I'm thinking about running some professional training on database > related topics, specifically aimed towards rails programmers. I don't > see these issues talked about much in the ecosphere, probably because > they can be hard, which is a shame because it's really important stuff > for any commercial site. > > Aside from my personal interest in the topic, I've dealt (and continue > to deal!) with this topic a lot in industry, and feel it's stuff you > really need to know as a professional developer. > > In my experience the hairier topics can be difficult to grasp just from > a lecture, so the format would be a combination of theory matched with > practical rails examples, run over a couple of nights early in 2010, > with notes and exercises and all that jazz to take home. I'd charge a > couple hundred bucks, money back if you don't find it valuable. > > Of course this is only worthwhile if people are interested in it. If > that's you, please reply (privately if you wish) and I'll keep you in > the loop. A few questions, if you'd be so kind: > > 1) How do these topics sound? Anything missing? Anything too mundane? > Data Integrity > - DB level constraints > - Key design > - App level concerns > > Concurrency > - Locking > - optimistic vs pessimistic > - Isolation levels > > DB Design > - Transactional vs Reporting DBs > - Performance considerations > - Data warehouses > - How to evaluate tech? MySQL? Postgresql? Oracle? CouchDB? Cognos? > > 2) Format OK? Would a weekend be better? > 3) Would you prefer a different presenter? Am I too boring? > 4) Could you bring your own laptop? > 5) What city are you in? > > Xavier > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" 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/rails-oceania?hl=en.
