Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails

September Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails Meetup - Sept 25 @ 7pm

Sep 25, 2008 · 7:00 PM
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The Silicon Valley Ruby on Rails meetup will have its next meeting on September 25th, 2008! We'll be meeting this month at LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View. Very special thanks to Michael Hartl, co-founder of Insoshi, for organizing this month's event and booking the speakers and venue! Insoshi is an open-source social networking platform written in Ruby on Rails. The meetup will start at **7PM**. We have great speakers lined up this month. Emmett Shear from Justin.tv will be sharing his experiences with "Rails Tricks For Fun And Profit At Justin.tv". Justin.tv is building a destination site for broadcasting and watching live video online while chatting with friends. The company’s mission is to enable viewers and broadcasters to interact and exchange ideas in real time through chat and live video. Adam Wiggins from Heroku will talk with us about "Instant Rails Deployment to Heroku with Git". Heroku is an online deployment system for Ruby on Rails apps. You can create a rails app via your browser, and then with an online editor, you begin to customize it. Their focus is on providing the popular Ruby on Rails platform with the easiest deployment possible: one that regular users do not have to worry about. LinkedIn has graciously offered to provide food and drink. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there! Address: 2029 Stierlin Ct, Mountain View, CA 94043 And here is the google maps link:
http://maps.google.co... View,+CA+94043&sll=[masked],[masked]&sspn=[masked],[masked]&ie=UTF8&ll=3 [masked],[masked]&spn=[masked],[masked]&z=16&layer=c&cbll=[masked],[masked] 1953&panoid=9WjD7kHhZjfiYLAEW8vVnQ&cbp=1,[masked],,1,[masked] 2173 Parking: Please feel free to park anywhere in the parking lot Conf. Room: LinkedIn HQ 2nd Floor Kitchen and Open Area LinkedIn has been using Ruby on Rails for about 2 years. Projects that we implemented using Ruby on Rails: - LinkedIn Mobile, a mobile web application which designed for iPhone and mobile devices which supports XHTML MP. Recently we added support for the iPhone native application written in Objective C and using Oauth protocol. - Bumper Sticker, a Facebook application which has 17 million users and 900 million page views per month. - NewIn, a visualization application created during a hack day which leverages Google Maps and LinkedIn REST API to display newly joined users. - OpenSocial Applications, applications that build on top on LinkedIn OpenSocial platform and will appear on LinkedIn Homepage for the OpenSocial initial launch.

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A former member

Good speakers, esp. the guys from Justin.tv and Heroku, both of whom got the right amount of technical meat into their presentations.

0 · September 30, 2008
A former member

I've uploaded Emmett's slides to the Files section. Adam's talk was almost all Heroku demo, so there aren't really any slides to post for that.

0 · September 26, 2008
Brad G.

Any way we can get the slides from the presenters?

0 · September 26, 2008
A former member

very good technical content from all 3 main presenters

0 · September 26, 2008
Steven C.

Interesting talks. More of a focus on company X and what it's product does rather than how to build Z in ruby/rails than I had seen at other meetups, but it was interesting.

0 · September 26, 2008
Hassan S.

Awesome speakers; I hope all the slides get posted as well.

0 · September 26, 2008
Brad G.

Thanks to LinkedIn for a great Venue and Food.
Also the Justin.tv session was really neat.

0 · September 26, 2008
A former member

Good energy and an overall fun time with people who have explored Rails and development in general. A very fitting meetup considering it's the silicon valley. Heroku really blew my socks off.

0 · September 26, 2008
A former member

The host was excellent and all the speakers were very informative and cool. Good stuff all the way!

0 · September 25, 2008
A former member

Good talks, especially Adam Wiggins from Heroku.

0 · September 25, 2008
A former member

What a great opportunity to listen to gifted and talented Rails developers.

0 · September 25, 2008
A former member

Wonderful speakers especially the last speaker for Heroku

0 · September 25, 2008
Mark H.

Great facility (thanks LinkedIn!)
All the primary speakers were also very interesting

0 · September 25, 2008
A former member

This is the best meetup I've attended. All of the speakers were fantastic and engaging. I'm definitely coming back for the next one.

0 · September 25, 2008