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Canada on Rails: Amy Hoy - getting started with AJAX

13 Apr 2006

Amy Hoy

Go read the AJAX chapter in the Rails book

Sleep…. sleep… sllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfja;l

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Canada on Rails: Male to Female ratio

13 Apr 2006

497:3 and at least one of those 3 looks pretty pissed she’s here… at least that’s what I counted, so it was interesting to see that the organizer had a handful good looking women greeting and handing out badges.

This is really bad. The two genders bring very different perspectives to issues. Rails is about getting stuff done quickly, not so much about a technology. I would think this would draw in more woman than than other topics in the CS world.

One of those 3 woman is Amy Hoy who I (over)hear writes great Rails docs and is writing a book.

Also 24% of Vancouver speak Chinese. Wild. You can really see this on the street.

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Canada on Rails: David Black

13 Apr 2006

David Black: Breaking Through the Programming Glass Ceiling

Problems with getting his laptop hooked up to the projector. Apple, was it really a good idea to use a non-vga plug on your computers? (lazyweb: why apple doesn’t use vga?)

Changing topic to “Meditations on the Ruby/Rails Ratio”. Talking about the relationship between Ruby and Rails.

  • “Is it important to learn Ruby if you’re using Rails” puzzled him (_who the enterprise was wondering that?_). This was a discussion somewhere online.
  • Computer language aficionados fight more than musicians of different instruments.

I’m getting tried (was up til 5 EST last night) so my notes are going to fade out here. The campfire (I like it as a noun) has high praise for his book. Maybe we should get a few copies.

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Canada on Rails: Steve Baker

13 Apr 2006

_I think this is his blog

  • Full time Rails developer.
  • I’m good at talking, but bad at slides. Lack of profanity or pornography in the slides.
  • TDD is about Specification not Verification

Chai is good. Makes the body feel warm and my brain feel cushioned

  • When changing your software change the tests first

He recapped a lot of what was covered in the testing chapter of the Rails book

  • Tests mean that while you are writing your main code you know what to do next.
  • Writing Ruby Support for Selenium

Q&A

  • lot’s of questions about TDD and if it was really useful and how to apply to their situation.
  • How to get TDD working at his job: “I just made sure everyone knew I thought they were stupid for not writing tests.” Humm sounds like someone I know (*cough* Doug cough).

Listening to people having a hard sell to get their bosses to allow TDD makes me glad to work at RS

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Famous and not so famous programming quotes

13 Apr 2006

Famous and not so famous programming quotes