Here's the lineup for Thursday's meeting! LEARN TO USE BACKBONE WITH RAILS Jordan Fowler will talk about Backbone.js, a new JavaScript framework that supports MVC and is backend-agnostic; and demonstrate how to build a Rails back-end that can be integrated with Backbone.js seamlessly. (Bonus points: the demo will be written in CoffeeScript.)
RUBY 1.9 FIBERS Kevin Ball will show how to use Fibers in Ruby 1.9 to do cooperative multi-tasking and elegant event-driven programming. FAT MODELS AREN'T ENOUGH "Fat Models, Skinny Controllers", they scream. Pushing your logic down to the model layer is a key step to improve testability, maintainability, and code quality. But many developers now have "junk drawer" models that don't realize these goals. Jeff Casimir explains why having a fat model isn't enough. RAFFLE We'll be giving away a shiny new Peepcode, books, software licenses, and tons of Heroku credits! .... DIRECTIONS Meetings are held on the UCSD campus, at 7:30pm, on the first Thursday of the month. If you plan to drive, follow the directions below and make sure to get a parking pass. Map to UCSD => http://tinyurl.com/2f486e SPEAK AT THE NEXT MEETING Wanna talk at our next meeting? Shout out on the mailing list. -- Patrick -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
