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Since the presentations section of the Shiny site is gone for now as we have a reshuffle over there and I haven’t got around to putting up a presentations section here yet, I thought I would add a quick post tonight to make the slides available from the various presentations I have given recently.
If you have any questions about any of these, please contact me.
Note: I would love to put these on SlideShare but it really seems to bork on Keynote PDF’s :(
Posted by dave
So I finally got around to finishing off the video from the NWRUG in February, this video is of Rob Lee (http://kodefoo.com, http://monkeyhelper.com) talking about REST in Rails.
I have to say I am still not convinced about REST as a general design principle (although I must say this is not because of Rob’s presentation!) and I just cant see many benefits over how I already write Rails applications, maybe this makes me a Rails luddite and if so, i don’t really care ;)
Now, if I was implementing a specific API I would be all over doing it with REST and I am more than happy to consume other peoples API’s with REST and ActiveResource.
We have Graham Pengelly (http://goingspare.wordpress.com/, http://www.mainlineconsultants.com/) to thank for the fabulous intro/ident that starts the video… it really makes us look way more professional than we are ;)
Finally, just a quick plug for next weeks NWRUG meeting (on the 22nd March), anyone unlucky enough to be going will have to watch me talk about Unobtrusive JavaScript but all is not lost because after that, Paul Robinson will be doing a “Mystery Ruby” session.
Anyway, on with the video from February! Enjoy.
Posted by dave
So tonight I am speaking at GeekUp about this weeks buzzword, OpenID :) It isn’t going to be an in depth talk about all the technical details of OpenID but is going to focus on what OpenID is/does, how to best use OpenID (delegation!) and also I am going to talk about some of the weaknesses of it. It is only going to be a short talk, 10 minutes or so… so even if you are completely unconvinced and I don’t manage to turn you around, at least the torture won’t last long!
Just a quick note too, for those people who noticed the blip in the encoding of the BBC Backstage video, I have re-encoded it and uploaded it to a different video sharing site and replaced the version in that blog post so if you wanted to see the end of the talk, try again :)
See you tonight at GeekUp
