[ANNOUNCE] LinuxSA November 2006 Meeting

[Geoffrey D. Bennett]

Hi all,

Time for the regular November meeting announcement -- we've got a
programming talk this month.  Also, don't forget about the special
November meeting this Monday (details at
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/).

Have fun,
Geoffrey.

The usual details:

  When:   7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
          Tuesday, 21st November, 2006
  Where:  Senior Secondary Assessment Board
          of South Australia (SSABSA)
          Boardroom (1st floor)
          60 Greenhill Road
          Wayville SA
  Cost:   FREE
  Who:    Anyone and everyone.
          No pre-registration necessary.

Presentation:

  Alex Moore will be giving a talk about Ruby On Rails. Alex is a web
  application developer for Valuation Exchange. He also develops
  applications for personal and commercial use in his spare time in
  Ruby On Rails.

  Alex plans to cover the following topics in his talk:

    * Demonstration - Code up a simple application from scratch in
      5-10 minutes, explaining each step
    * Why I switched to Rails (development in PHP etc), MVC
      architecture
    * Overview of key features of Ruby compared to Java/PHP/ASP etc.
    * Go into Rails features:
    * ActiveRecord (ORM Layer), Migrations (database stuff)
    * In built scriptaculous stuff (Pretty cross-browser AJAX stuff)
    * Testing (and how great it is, and how rails would convince you
      to do it)
    * Lollyjar and our experiences, our "best practices" we've adopted
    * How to learn - overview of best books, resources etc.

Pizza:

  After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
  Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).

For more information:

  Email:        organisers at linuxsa.org.au
  Web Page:     http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
  Mailing List: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au

-- 
Geoffrey D. Bennett, RHCE, RHCX               mailto:g at netcraft.com.au
Senior Systems Engineer                          sip:g at netcraft.com.au
NetCraft Australia Pty Ltd        http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/