14 Apr 2006
Generating Great Graphs with Ruby on Rails
sounds great for my Trac clone and a burndown chart
- shows off GNUPlot
- GNUPlot in gems
- MRPlot
- His experience w/ graphs in ruby started doing sparklines
- Now working on Gruff
- An example: The FU tour
- If you write that missing library you too can be famous
- shows how to use send_data and caches_page to cache, then about routes to get this right. Borrrring
- has a site that uses the graphing stuff Rough Underbelly
- css_graphs css only graphs
- rails.techno-weenie.com
- gave a lot of cool looking graphs/graphic effects that people have done on different sites.
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14 Apr 2006
James Adam on Engines: Team Development with Rails
- works at a media buying company, a service. Not building anything that will be sold. Dev for many clients simultaneously.
- see the same needs across the clients
- deals with the most boring problems over and over
- reuse code when it solves the same problem, not when it looks for.
- these applications are not beautiful and unique snowflakes (_this joke is even better than you think because he looks like brad pitt_)
- Generators vs. Engines. _He talked for a while about this which I learned on the Engines Intro
- Use svn:external to keep engines up to date.
- “it is fun to use ruby for evil”
- engines are plugins but a tiny more that they found useful.
- a way to share MVC slices between apps
Last night I ate at a Brazilian place with 30 or so Railers. They serve meat on a sword. So he added refs to MeatSword here and there in his slides, including MeatSword.com…. which is a pr0n site… hilarity ensues when someone mentions he visited the URL in a Q&A and everyone loads it in to see for themselves
- wants happy coexistence with Rails Core
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14 Apr 2006
Thomas Fuchs on Advanced Rails AJAX techniques
Got here 15mins late, can’t read apparently, thought this was at 8:30 not 8
- went though features in Prototype 1.5 (Rail’s javascript library) (_I wonder how this compares to MochaKit_), and script.aculo.us 1.6
- dramatic progress in just one year with this javascript stuff (_it’s the magic in AJAX so not too surprising_)
- with RJS you can send AJAX updates using the Rail’s partials you already have, just like you did to render the page originally.
- You can do a lot of stuff in pure ruby and Prototype will do the right thing on the JS side. Great idea
- you can send JS to a page via
page << "js code here"
- _Someone posted this on the Campfire: Painless JavaScript Using Prototype
- Showed demo of AJAX app he’s working on Fluxiom which is something like a web based, multiuser iPhoto. After showing the video on the site above intrested in the room went thru the roof and people were hanging on his every word.
- _via Campfire: Introducing the Web Inspector
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13 Apr 2006
just starting out…. title sounds interesting
after this I don’t know what to do… really tired but I’d love to look around. On the other hand sushi and sleep sounds very nice now
- taking the lighter dept. No more code snippets tonight.
- I’m an artist my whole life. (shows drawing of his grandmother)
- Zen teacher
- I am clueless. The more I learn the less I know. Beginners mind has endless possibility. Experts mind is full of crap.
- Clueless = going with the flow
- pre-emptive lets go of the assumptions
- focus on the language
- carpenters vs. luthiers (instrument builders)
- the “less code” movement
Update: I didn’t get the sense that anyone liked this talk much
slides at his site Alex Bunardzic
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