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After years of hearing about just how cool the ruby on rails framework is and being typically cynical about the whole thing I decided to check it out. The image I had of rails was that of a framework adopted by tree hugging, corduroy trouser wearing and long haired hippies. Learning ruby was fun but not entirely dissimilar from C# 3.5 and it is obvious to see the influence that ruby has had on C# 3.5.
It is hard to describe how game changing discovering rails has been for me. The ethos and methodology is expressed in a frictionless development environment that is articulated in each rails project. Convention over configuration is a culture I thought I was practicing in .NET.How wrong I was….
I would like to share my findings and report back to the .NET community of what can be learned from rails and possibly to a lesser extent ruby.
Speaker
Paul was born in bred in Belfast before leaving for the mainland in 2004. He now runs his own business in Glasgow where he hopes to create a developer centric environment that creates great software. He previously spent 4 years working for twentysixlondon, working as a technical architect where he worked mainly on public facing websites such as the Volvo Ocean Race, Waitrose, Closer and Abercrombie And Kent
The Volvo Ocean Race website tracked a round the world yacht race through ten months of race time. During race time, the website was updated with live race and telemetry boat information in as real time as possible.
Before twentysixlondon Paul spent his career working for Fujitsu in Belfast where he worked on numerous government projects.
Paul’s hobbies include Boxing.
Location
Scottish Developers have been kind enough to help organise a venue for use and have arranged for Equator to let us use their board room. Due to size of the room, we have to limit the available spots to 12. The presentation will take place on the 4th February at 7:30pm.
Equator,
Ground Floor,
Moda, 144 Elliot Street
Glasgow, G3 8EX
