Coming to RailsConf

[Luis Lavena]

Hello,

I got confirmation from my employee that will be at RailsConf.

Also, I'm about to send my proposal for presentation for the event, so
we have 'presence'.

So, knowing that, wanted to approach you guys for hints on what you
think will make a great presentation.

Over the past year I did a few RubyInstaller presentations showing how
things aren't that different on Windows and that the right way to
approach the Windows community is not by force and how community needs
to act different.

Of course, some people pay attention, others didn't care.

Anyhow, as I mentioned before, I think will be a good opportunity to
talk about "How to bring OpenSource into your company, step by step"

Anyone interested in turn the presentation into something else? Ideas
and suggestions? Q&A session instead?

Any response will be highly appreciated.

Cheers!
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Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Dr Nic Williams]

I would wholeheartedly appreciate a talk centred around Windows Ruby. If a Windows user came to RailsConf would they get some knowledge or inspiration? If a gem author came to your talk would they start including Windows builds? Or at least versions of the gems that work on Windows 1.8 and 1.9?

Cheers
Nic

http://engineyard.com
http://drnicwilliams.com
+1 (415) 322 9556

Engine Yard: Successful Rails Apps through Orchestration

[Luis Lavena]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Dr Nic Williams
<drnicw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would wholeheartedly appreciate a talk centred around Windows Ruby. If a Windows user came to RailsConf would they get some knowledge or inspiration?

I like that. Ruby and Windows. There are lot of tools to automate GUI
testing and how to use Cucumber even when you're not using Rails :)

> If a gem author came to your talk would they start including Windows builds?

I can show to them that is not hard, just a matter of use the tools. I
can pick some examples and show how easy was to add Windows binaries
to their gems.

>Or at least versions of the gems that work on Windows 1.8 and 1.9?
>

rake-compiler, 2 lines of code, some tea (while you wait for Ruby to
cross compile) and you're done ;-)

I would prefer center the talk around Ruby and not Rails, I know is
RailsConf, but...

More suggestions are welcome!

[Dr Nic Williams]

Throw in Rails on IIS and you have a Rails talk :)

Cheers
Nic

http://engineyard.com
http://drnicwilliams.com
+1 (415) 322 9556

Engine Yard: Successful Rails Apps through Orchestration

[Luis Lavena]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Dr Nic Williams
<drnicw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Throw in Rails on IIS and you have a Rails talk :)
>

Ok, once I'm done with FreeTDS will take a look to fcgi :P

But, anyone is welcome to help me out! don't be shy!