Posted by Ken
OVERVIEW
Matthew, Ken
Javahouse 3pm - 4pm
SUMMARY
Matthew and Ken talked about the core group of members and delved into CSS once again. ANC Representative Joe Martin popped in to talk about urban problems and their possible solutions.
DETAILS
- Matthew presented a short update on www.rubydc.org web work and how he and another member plan to augment their training by studying blogging code. Ken said that for all intensive purposes, he considers the rubydc.rog website is finished for the moment and has told the webteam leader this by email.
- Ken talked about preparing to visit the Supreme Court during the KSR v. Teleflex argument. There are two lines, one is for people who can only stay a few minutes, the other line is for people who intend to stay for hours. It is important to come to the front of the US Supreme Court building early. Date of the argument is Tuesday, 28 November 2006. Ken said is reading up on opensource case law.
- Ken elaborate on why he thinks it's important to keep tabs on Ruby in the Enterprise. This is where the big money is spent. Currently, server farms are starting up like engineyard.com that are catering to the Enterprise. Enterprise level projects will set the standard of practice for small projects, so it's important to see how teams are working--are they using SVN, Capistrano and Rails? Are they using Apache2 and Rails, or something else? How are they planning to use Ruby to access legacy databases? Are they catering equally to Macs, Windows and Linux systems? What companies are aware of Ruby and make it a part of their toolkit of scripting languages? It is for these reasons that it is important to have a report on Ruby in the Enterprise. If anyone wants to be an Enterprise Reporter then please let Ken know.
- Ken mentioned the CSS Book from OReilly.
- Matthew said he is working on boosting his CSS, Javascript skills. He talked briefly about the history of javascript.
- Ken said he will change the AMRUG venue to Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan for the next meeting.
- ANC Representative from Petworth neighborhood, Joseph Martin stopped in and spoke to Matthew and Ken about violence, health problems, the school system, the library system in the city and how it might be possible to get people who live in the city to come together.
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