Hackfest 4/29 Post Mortem

[Josh]

So, we were just kidding about working on the recommendable plugin. We
actually worked on the bostonrb.org website some more.

The crew tonight was:
* Dan Croak (http://dancroak.com)
* Wyatt Greene
* Brian Underwood
* Josh Nichols (http://technicalpickles.com)
* Steve Morss

The significant things we worked on were:

* Projects have descriptions now
* Events now have a location
* Reorganized events page
* left side has all upcoming events
* center has next event with google map
* right side has nothing now, but we're thinking to put a calendar
type view

Some articles, resources, that came up while hacking away
* Jay Field's Blog (http://blog.jayfields.com/)
* Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker (http://
www.infoq.com/articles/fields-it-depends)
* Dave Thomas's post about Shoulda (http://
pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/04/shoulda-used-th.html)
* Thoughtbot's post about string quoting (http://
giantrobots.thoughtbot.com/2008/4/1/using-ruby-strings-correctly)
* Dirt simple .rcss templates (http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/
2006/3/23/dirt-simple-rcss-templates)
* haml and sass (http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/)
* YM4R/GM, Google Maps helper for Rails (http://
agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/ym4r_gm)
* Geokit, Geocoding plugin (http://geokit.rubyforge.org/)
* Difference between && and and (http://www.pjhyett.com/posts/201-
using-or-and-in-ruby)

The fruits of our labor have been pushed to http://bostonrb.org, and
the source can be found at https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/boston_rb

[Steve Morss]

Josh,
Thanks for the great summary and for pushing all the changes out to the
public Subversion site. Lots of good things to look at.

Steve