RedPost

Yesterday evening was the first time (that I’m aware of) that Goshen has played host to the group of rapscallions that call themselves Ruby/Rails developers here in the Michiana area. RedPost, like a nervous teenager on a big date, did their best to impress and put on a spread of pizza and beer, knowing that’d be a sure way to make friends.

John Nunemaker was the presenter for the evening and most of his discussion centered around this slick little calendar that he’s developed for the DealerFlow web app. He had to figure out to quickly go between different calendar pages for months of the year that may be displaying data for the different…I’m losing my train of thought. Anyhow, enter in the simple beauty of JSON. Why not just request nice, compact nuggets of JSON, quickly throw that info into chunks of HTML strings, render that, and keep the data around, redrawing it if need be? Good stuff John. eJabberd also surfaced again as John and Steve demoed a cool internal messaging service that was also part of that web app. We’ll also be making use of eJabberd to make updates to signs lightening fast, just as soon as we can get around to it.

Around a certain point in the evening conversation began to degrade into less noteworthy topics/rants that included the iPhone and the death of SMS, politics, the one guy (hi Alec) who brought a non Apple computer arguing against “Apple tax,” and, sadly, the violation of little puppies via IE6. Minus my gluttoney that was the cause for extreme discomfort, it was a successful Ruby/Rails user group meeting.

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