The slide deck from Paul Prescod’s short talk on “Ruby from a Pythonic Point of View” from the VanPyZ “Language Futures” Event resides now online. Talk slides include: (Arguably) Nice Ruby Syntax Map/filter/reduce chaining What is a block? Blocks in Ruby are kind of like… Simple blocks versus lambda Ruby:...

Scott Patten published the slide deck for the Vancouver Ruby/Rails December meetup talk titled “Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)” on the Spatten Design blog (Yes, the slide deck is hosted on S3). The blog story includes the Ruby script for the live S3 shell (s3sh) coding. Thanks Scott.

Scott Patten published the slide deck for the Vancouver Ruby/Rails December meetup talk titled “Using Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)” on the Spatten Design blog (Yes, the slide deck is hosted on S3). The blog story includes the Ruby script for the live S3 shell (s3sh) coding. Thanks Scott.

At last the talk notes/slides for Gerald Bauer’s Vancouver Ruby/Rails August Meetup talk titled “Tagging & Tag Clouds Made Easy” are now online. Talk slides include: Tags, Tag Clouds, Folksonomy - Glossary Why? Share. Tag. Discover. Wikipedia Tagging Tag Cloud Tag Clouds in the Wild Add Tags To Your Rails Web App Step 1 -...

At last the talk notes/slides for Gerald Bauer’s Vancouver Ruby/Rails August Meetup talk titled “Tagging & Tag Clouds Made Easy” are now online. Talk slides include: Tags, Tag Clouds, Folksonomy - Glossary Why? Share. Tag. Discover. Wikipedia Tagging Tag Cloud Tag Clouds in the Wild Add Tags To Your Rails Web App Step 1 -...

Love or hate Facebook? Tell us why and share your “Dear facebook,” rant ‘n’ rave letter with the world posting it on the “Dear facebook,” wall. Need ideas? Read up on “Dear facebook,” letters posted on the Rant’n'Rave Blog to get started. “Dear facebook,” letters include: Dear facebook, May I have my Life Back,...

Love or hate Facebook? Tell us why and share your “Dear facebook,” rant ‘n’ rave letter with the world posting it on the “Dear facebook,” wall. Need ideas? Read up on “Dear facebook,” letters posted on the Rant’n'Rave Blog to get started. “Dear facebook,” letters include: Dear facebook, May I have my Life Back,...

Welcome back to the Facebook Demo Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Geoff Peters talking about the Best of the West 2007 Nominee Funny Jokes. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your Funny Jokes Facebook app? Geoff Peters: The Funny Jokes facebook app is an extension of one of my web sites into [...]

Welcome back to the Facebook Demo Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Geoff Peters talking about the Best of the West 2007 Nominee Funny Jokes. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about your Funny Jokes Facebook app? Geoff Peters: The Funny Jokes facebook app is an extension of one of my web sites into [...]

Welcome to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails User Group Q&A series. Today let’s welcome back Vancouverite Ed Povazan discussing Grails - Groovy’s web framework - and tips on how to get started with Groovy and Grails and more. Q: How did you get started on Grails? What makes Grails your framework of choice for web applications using Java? Ed [...]

Welcome to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails User Group Q&A series. Today let’s welcome back Vancouverite Ed Povazan discussing Grails - Groovy’s web framework - and tips on how to get started with Groovy and Grails and more. Q: How did you get started on Grails? What makes Grails your framework of choice for web applications using Java? Ed [...]

Welcome back to episode two in the Facebook Demo Q&A Series with Green Gifts creative mind Rob Cottingham. Q: Any tips and tricks or advice you can share on developing, designing or marketing Facebook apps? Rob Cottingham: Actually, we learned a lot from this project, and we’re happy to share it. One, developing for Facebook can [...]

Welcome back to episode two in the Facebook Demo Q&A Series with Green Gifts creative mind Rob Cottingham. Q: Any tips and tricks or advice you can share on developing, designing or marketing Facebook apps? Rob Cottingham: Actually, we learned a lot from this project, and we’re happy to share it. One, developing for Facebook can [...]

Welcome to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails User Group Q&A series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Ed Povazon. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Ed Povazon: I’m a software developer living in Vancouver, BC. I’m a big Groovy fan, and will use the language almost anywhere, using Java as my ‘assembler’...

Welcome to the Vancouver Groovy/Grails User Group Q&A series. Today let’s welcome Vancouverite Ed Povazon. Q: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Ed Povazon: I’m a software developer living in Vancouver, BC. I’m a big Groovy fan, and will use the language almost anywhere, using Java as my ‘assembler’...