Service Building (Lauren) & Date Parsing for Cultural Institutions (David)

After our usual social hour at 6:30pm, we will have 2 talks!

~7:30pm Lauren Voswinkel will be speaking about Service Building:

You've learned about Service Oriented Architecture. You want to use it. You know the benefits to testing speeds, to team velocity, and page load (why do in sequence what can be done in parallel?).

Problem is, you're tearing your hair out trying to figure out how to actually pull those services out of your monorail.

This talk isn't about the overview. This isn't about the metrics to determine what should be pulled out into a service.

This talk isn't even about optimizing the service you pull out. This talk is a step-by-step approach about how to successfully pull that service,

embedded in your app, out so it can be the best little service it can be, and you can get back to that velocity that your managers keep saying "we used to be able to do".

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~8pm David Newbury will be speaking about Date Parsing for Cultural Institutions in Ruby:

I’ve got 99 problems, and they’re all dates.

Art Tracks is a project for the Carnegie Museum of Art, tracking the history of ownership for fine art. As part of this, we’ve had to deal with date problems unlike those of most technology projects—problems such as dates like “sometime after 1995” and “Possibly the fifteenth century” .

Ruby and the date_time_precision gem have been an invaluable tool in helping to maintain and manipulate the very specific information contained in these historical records.