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Yesterday, I talked about the first half of the first ever Windy City Rails conference that happened on Saturday at IIT. Tonight, I'll pick up where I left off with my summary of the presentations I attended.
Virtualization and Elastic Servers -- Yan Pritzker of CohesiveFT
The gist of this talk is that the Rails stack is not well known so why not let CohesiveFT handle deployment for you. It's a virtualization factory, that lets you put together a custom Rails stack and they can deploy and maintain it for you for as little as 10-15 bucks a month. Also, he pointed out that virtualization is a solution for your front end guys getting a working version. Which, having tried to get many a design person's computer up and running, I think is a pretty cool idea.
Ten Things I Hate About Web Apps by Micah Martin
Short list of things Micah hates about Web Apps:
You need to know css, html, js, and the actual programing language just to get started.
Html -- only 3 fonts to chose from
Css is not implemented the same on browsers
Javascript and will it be supported
Multiple browser support
The Photoshop dependancy (why should rounded corners and gradients be so hard?)
The statelessness of http
Flash/silverlight are not open source
Ruby on Rails -- a pretty mask on top of the ugliness
His solution is Limelight -- A platform for writing rich ruby apps. It's all Ruby all the way down. He showed off a simple demo of how easy it is to create apps with Limelight. Then he showed a tower defense video game his brother wrote using Limelight. It looked pretty cool, but it's very audacious to propose a new platform.
Slight of Hand for the Ruby Man by Aaron Bedra, Relevance
I missed a bunch of this presentation 'cause I'm a dumbass. The cool thing I did manage to see is "the-inspector" which is a gem that can tell you where some monkey patcher has redefined a method. So you can call this:
The Morph App Space lightning talk was next. Morph can help you deploy RoR in five minutes, it's fully managed, and elastically scalable for $1 a day.
Rails Security by Aaron Bedra, Relevance
Aaron talked about using Tarantula to crawl your app and attack it. It's particularly good at finding cross site scripting and sql injection attack vulnerabilities.
There are a number of solutions to preventing cross site attacks (aside from remembering to use 'h' everywhere):
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