Next Meeting – December 11th

Our next meeting is Thursday, December 11th – 7 PM at Devry Room #106 sponsored by Veredus. We’ll have some delicious Panda Express for dinner at 6 PM, so feel free to show up early for networking and free food.

First up this month is David Rogers doing a talk on Solving the Problem of Distributed Identity with OpenID. David will be explaining the how and the why behind Open-ID and then showing off some Ruby code. This should be quite interesting considering that he’s a PHP guy.

Secondly, I’ll be running my Scaling Rails talk which is shortly going to be turned into an Envycast. In this talk I’ll start by going over all of the Caching Mechanisms that ship with Rails and how to take full advantage of them. We’ll then move into scaling the database, and best practices for deployment. We should cover all the information needed to confidently deploy a Scalable Rails application in the wild. Even if you’re experienced with Rails, you’re bound to learn a few new tricks.

Just FYI, the Scaling Rails talk may run over the allotted 30 minutes. So feel free to ditch out early if you get tired of hearing me yap or just be prepared to stay a little extra time.