The following topics seem to be very interesting to me. * Architectural design and what should I care if I want a flexible yet powerful app +2
* How to benchmark and profile code +1 --max On Dec 1, 11:52 pm, Matt Aimonetti <[email protected]> wrote: > I promised Patrick that in 2011 I will find more free time to make it to the > meetings and to prepare some SD Ruby presentations :) > The question is what topics do you guys want to hear about? > > What I do at work is off limit, but otherwise I should be able to cover > almost any Ruby topics, > here are some that I can think of right and which could be interesting: > > * Ruby's Garbage Collector, what is it, how does it work, why should I care? > * Concurrency with Ruby, what's the real situation and what are the work > arounds? > * Stop hurting Ruby, or a list of things you do that make Ruby slow > * Writing a C extension for Ruby > * Ruby's internals > * How to benchmark and profile code > * Architectural design and what should I care if I want a flexible yet > powerful app > * Do you know Lisp? Get over the parenthesis stigma and see the awesomeness! > > * AI in Ruby, or let's solve some game problems using Ruby > * Group discussion about some Ruby snippets and their pros/cons > > Obviously I won't be able to present all of these talks so I'd like to hear > what you are interested to hear about. > > Personally I would love to hear talks about the following topics: > > * rvm and how to deploy apps with rvm > * Intro to Ruby for Java developers > * Intro to Ruby for Python developers > * intro to Ruby for <the community you come from> > * What can we learn from the Python language and its community > * What can we learn from Java/.Net/PHP > * Passenger 3 > * People showing real problems (big or small) and how they solved them (with > real code examples) > * Stuff you are working on > * Ruby for something else than the web > > - Matt > > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Chris McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Patrick, > > > I use Google's geocoding service and the acts_as_mappable Rails plugin > > in one of my apps. I'd be happy to give a talk in January or February > > on geocoding. > > > > Here are some topics I'd like to talk about next year: > > > > GEOCODING 101 > > > - What's geocoding? > > > - What are good options for geocoding on Rails? > > > - How do you map geocoded data? > > > - How do you search within a given bounds? > > > Cheers, > > > Chris > > > -- > > SD Ruby mailing list > > [email protected] > >http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
