Code Generation With Ruby
Google engEDU
51 min – Aug 3, 2006

Google TechTalks
August 3, 2006

Jack Herrington, the author of Code Generation in Action (Manning, July 2003) , will talk about code generation techniques using Ruby. He will cover both do-it-yourself and off-the-shelf solutions in a conversation about where Ruby is as a tool, and where it’s going. Read the rest of this entry »

RUBY: Competitious On Rails
Google engEDU
59 min – Mar 8, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 1, 2007

ABSTRACT

Kris Rasmussen and Andy Holt from Competitious will be sharing their experience using RoR in a production environment in a new startup. In addition, they’ll explain some of the many advantages Rails has for companies like theirs and smaller teams, as well as some of the disadvantages and gotchas of production Rails apps. Finally, they’ll describe their architecture and cover some unique solutions to common problems, including squeezing extra performance out of AJAX with javascript templates and handling activity logging more elegantly. Read the rest of this entry »

Ruby And Google Maps
Google engEDU
1 hr 3 min – Dec 7, 2006

Google Tech Talks
December 7, 2006

ABSTRACT

Andre will be covering topics such as the following:
- ImageMagick and geographic data: creating custom Google Map overlays with RMagick
- Google Maps custom controls: creating a better (or at least different) zoom control
- Demystifying the geocoder: you, too, can create a geocoder from scratch Read the rest of this entry »

django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines
Google engEDU
1 hr 14 min – Apr 26, 2006

Google TechTalks
April 26, 2006

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

ABSTRACT
Django is one of the premier web frameworks for Python, and is often compared to Ruby-on-Rails. Jacob is one of the lead developers on Django. Read the rest of this entry »

BillMonk.com
Google engEDU
40 min – 16-Jun-06

Google TechTalks
June 16, 2006

Gaurav Oberoi & Chuck Groom
Co-Founders, BillMonk.com

ABSTRACT
The web 2.0 bubble inflates as geeks pump out an astonishing number of web-based solutions to daily problems. But a lot of these solutions only appeal to a small niche. What goes into a service that appeals to a broad range of people?

How can it start and grow without a generous helping of capital? The two guys behind BillMonk.com, a service for helping friends with the casual borrowing of money and stuff, will share their views from the trenches. They will share the story of what it took to quit their comfy jobs at Amazon, how a handful of philosophical axioms dictated the entire site design and interface, anthropological observations about the 18-26 year-old demographic with respect to money and computers, and some of the technical challenges they’ve faced. There will be room for discussion about Ruby, Linux, when to open-source parts of your platform, and business lessons for geeks. Read the rest of this entry »