DCRUG: CarrierWave+S3 + What Computer Scientists Know: Recursion

Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.

Current agenda:

"CarrierWave+S3: Cheap & (now) easy automated file upload & storage" by Lisa Schaefer

Heroku provides free rails hosting while you're developing your app. However you cannot have users upload and store files on the free version. There are several inexpensive services for file storage and a few gems to facilitate file transfers.Lisa Schaefer will discuss how to use the CarrierWave gem to upload and store files on Amazon S3. She will tell us about the information resources you'll need for getting your app to work with CarrierWave, along with some of the glitches you might encounter on the way.

"What Computer Scientists Know: Recursion" by Dave Bock

So you came to software development from some other background, and wonder wht you missed not getting a "traditional computer science degree"?

I might not be able to give you a com sci degree in a couple of short talks, but I can hit the highlights. In this first of a series of talks, you'll learn about recursion… the act of solving a problem by defining a method that calls itself, getting closer to the solution each time.

Bring your thinking caps, because we'll start with a 10 minute thought experiment based on one of the Project Euler problems (http://projecteuler.net).
We now meet monthly at Logik's new headquaters, now located at 1400 I (Eye) Street NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20005. The closest Metro stop is McPherson Square. If you're downstairs and need someone to let you into the building or the elevator, please give me a call at 202-374-7303 or tweet me at @naffis.

We always need presenters, so if you have a topic or project on which you'd like to do a 30-minute presentation on anything Ruby-related, Rails-related or possibly of interest to Ruby developers, please contact our organizers info@dcrug.org and we'll schedule you to speak. If you have presented before, you are welcome to give a presentation on a new topic. This is a great chance for some of you guys and gals lingering in the back of the room to share some of the cool things you are working on. Don't be shy -- you're among fellow geeks. :)

As always, we'll have an ample supply of free pizza and soda for all attendees, so don't worry about eating dinner beforehand.

And we'll be heading to a nearby bar after the meeting, to unwind and socialize with fellow techies.