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Sarah Allen's Talks
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Pie: The Making of a DSL for Simple Games
Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations
November 12, 2010 10:05 AMSarah will first demo some games created with Pie. She will then talk about the Ruby language features that make it easy (possible) to create domain specific languages and how they are used in Pie. She will also cover design considerations... why certain syntax worked well and other early de…
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Rails Quickstart Charity Workshop
Sarah Mei 15 Recommendations Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations
October 6, 2010 5:00 AMLearn about, build, and deploy a Ruby on Rails application in one day!Sarah Mei and Sarah Allen of RailsBridge will conduct a special "boot camp" to get new developers up and running on Ruby on Rails. Come with just your laptop, and by the end of the day you will have written and tested a wo…
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Test-First Teaching
Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations Alex Chaffee 1 Recommendation
September 17, 2010 12:45 PMWe've all learned that writing tests before code is a great way to develop software. It turns out that it's also a great way to learn how to develop software in the first place! In this talk we discuss a number of projects that have used test-first approaches to teach Ruby, including Ruby Ko…
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Adventures in Full Text Search
Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations
June 10, 2010 7:45 AMSearch is a common feature on every website, but there isn't a single common solution, nor are there easy, comparable datapoints between the options. As a Rails developer, how do you choose the right solution? This talk will review Solr/Lucene, Sphinx and Postgres' new search features, the…
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Mobile Applications with Ruby
Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations
November 21, 2009 6:15 AMWant to get into mobile app development with your Ruby skills? Or maybe you are already switching between Java, ObjectiveC and/or C++ to target applications to various popular mobile devices and you are thinking that there must be a better way... In this talk, Sarah Allen will share her ex…