Ann: Devel Meeting, Thursday, Feb 1st

What: PLUG Developer Meeting
When: Thursday, February 1st, 2006 at 7:00 PM
Where: Adtron Corporation
4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Suite 100
Phoenix, AZ 85040
(Directions are available in the web site FAQ:
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=31)

Topic: A Ruby on Rails Project Demonstration by Craig White

Ruby[1] is becoming a popular programming language for web development.
The Ruby on Rails[2] project provides a system for rapid development of
web applications, allowing the creation of database centered
applications very quickly.

This project demonstration concerns implementation of ruby on rails
system that is in production at a non-profit mental health services
provider in the valley. Software has been developed exclusively using
Quanta Plus, runs on CentOS 4.4, Apache Web server, PostgreSQL, SVN and
Trac. User authentication is handled by network LDAP, modules include
clients, case managers, facilities, placements, referral notes,
personnel (this module is very robust and mostly complete), and a time
clock. Some amount of ajax is used and while ruby on rails supports
larger implementations of ajax, I have been hesitant to overload because
client systems are frequently Macintosh OS 9, using Netscape 7.02 (the
last version released for OS 9) and only moderate support for Web 2.0
features.

Presenter Bio:

Craig White is a former vice president of Arizona Apple User group (mid
80's), and have been doing computer support, contract sysadmin for
Macintosh, Windows, Linux networks since 1987 (though my Linux
experiences started approx 1999). I am a member of the Samba team
(albeit a minor role) as I maintain wiki.samba.org

Network Note:

The wireless Internet at Adtron is known to mostly work but is flaky.
We have a donated 8 port switch for wired connections but it can fill up
if many people want to connect. If you have an access point or a switch
to share for the duration of the meeting, it is much appreciated.

Alan


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