Title: Leveraging Rails to Build FaceBook Applications by Dave Keener (+ RVM and Gemsets by Dave Bock).

When: Weds Sept 15, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Location:

Near Infinity HQ
1881 Campus Commons Drive Suite 205
Reston, VA 20191

Location URL: Near Infinity on the Map

Call 703 727-1307 (Gray's cell phone) if you have trouble getting in.

Parking: There is plenty of parking out in front of the building or behind it in the garage.

Food: Pizza and Sodas will be provided by Near Infinity Corporation.

Description:

This talk is a distillation of some of the practical tactics that Dave's development team at MetroStar Systems has used to create highly successful FaceBook applications using Rails, including real-life systems like PollCast and Iran Voices. Facebook is the world's largest social network, with over 400 million members. The talk also discusses the ramifications of the latest game-changing announcements from Facebook's F8 Conference and how these changes are affecting Facebook development.

The second talk will be a quick presentation by Dave Bock on using RVM and Gemsets to better organize your projects.

Speaker Bio:

David Keener is a solutions architect for MetroStar Systems, a fast-growing consulting firm in the Washington DC metropolitan area providing services to government agencies, non-profit organizations and the commercial sector. Dave has over 23 years of experience, specializing in Ruby, Rails, social media and (sometimes) even Java. He is a frequent public speaker at user groups and conferences, as well as a founder of the RubyNation Conference. He also blogs regularly on Internet-related subjects at KeenerTech.com.

Dave Bock is a principal at CodeSherpas, a software consultancy based in Northern Virginia that has been doing a lot of Rails work since 2006.