Posted
Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:36:54 GMT
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Tags conference, my.dsu.ca, presentation, tigerevents
Ah….. hard to believe it has been almost 4 months since my last post. There always seems to be just one more thing that needs to be done.
The most recent and exciting item was a recent conference. A few months ago, myself, Oliver, and Chris were invited to a local conference called The Student Edge. The conference was partially organized by an ex-DSU president, and he kindly gave us the opportunity to talk about our experiences building software for the DSU. The conference was somewhat different than other ones I have been to, with roughly a third of the time spent on ad-hoc information exchange sessions, where the attendees basically shared their own stories (Societies Anonymous!), and the other 2/3rds more traditional talks.
Our talk, titled “Help Societies Help You: Using the Internet to Build a Better Campus” was well received by about a third of the attendees. We tried to not only tell our own story, but to convey the message that if 3 students can build some applications for the DSU, then maybe they can leverage their own student population in order to do some cool stuff.
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Posted
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:26:13 GMT
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Tags conference, presentation, speaking
Yesterday was the first DevEast conference. Kudos to Derek for putting together an interesting panel of speakers in such a short order of time, as well as bringing in at least 40 attendees. There really were some interesting talks. In particular, I enjoyed Mike Mullens’ talk about Next Generation Web Apps.
As for my own talk… well… it could have been better. I tried to go for the live ‘wow’ factor of doing some live code. I mean, if I could create a rails app from scratch in a short amount of time, that would be pretty awesome right? Of course, if I made a mistake somewhere… which, of course, is what happened.
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Posted
Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:29:03 GMT
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Tags presentation, rails, ruby
Over the last few years I have been asked to present something at various local conferences (mostly just CEOS). This has always ended up with me saying, “sorry, I don’t have the time”. Recently, I have come to the realization that I am likely going to always be “busy” with various other things. So I made a decision.
More recently, I have been asked to give a talk at DevEast. Rather than my traditional “sorry I don’t have time”, I decided to give in and accept. I am now going to be giving a talk about Ruby on Rails that will encompass a lot of the basics, as well as sharing some of my own experiences with it over the last year.
Win, lose, or draw, at least in a few days I will be able to say I’ve tried.
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