Here's the schedule for the last three weeks - if you need to switch, work it out with whomever you're trading with and let me know. If you are covering the same (or similar) topic as another, please work together to minimize overlap.

You're free to use your own laptop or mine, just let me know before hand so I can have things setup for you. As I've mentioned before, screen casts are great if you'd prefer to do that.

April 21
Sue - Python
Scott - JS(ajax)
Barbara - Jython
Jake - Ruby
Andy - Erlang
Joe - Mono Rails

April 27
John R. - Waitr
Joel - Iron Python
Justin - Rails
Kevin - JRuby
Carrie - Groovy
Paul - Grails

May 5
Craig -
Clif - Ruby
Josh - Seaside
Dan - Perl
Reed - Squeak
John - C#

Everyone in Dynamic Language camp - I suspect the weather will be pretty crappy tomorrow and I urge you to use your best judgement regarding traveling. I just touched base with my speaker and between the weather, his cold, and the fact that the turbulent market has caused no end of headaches for him (he's the CTO of Dow Jones...) he's asked to reschedule. I apologize for the late notice but if class isn't cancelled tomorrow, it'll be a work day for the Rails app or whatever you guys feel like getting done. I know we haven't covered the nuts and bolts of Rails but between your classmates and online resources you might be able to piece something together.

Regarding the application - I want you to write a simple Rails app, basically what they run you through in Rolling With Ruby on Rails. I'm going to ask that you do a short (few paragraphs) write up on your experience with Rails - what you liked, what you didn't like, etc. If I get really motivated, I'll actually send out some reading material for next week... Be good and be safe!

Books mentioned in class last week have been posted to the References page. Lecture notes and the homework for Friday have been posted as well.

Please keep these future dates in mind:

• Saturday, February 10 - topics
• Friday, March 2 - Executive summary
• Saturday, March 24 - Rails app
• Friday, April 7 - DSLs
• Saturday, April 21 - Tech Briefing due
• Presentations - April 21, April 27, May 5

I ran into this talk last week sometime and I highly recommend it. Despite finding it on Google Video, it's basically a podcast - I don't recall there being anything visual other than getting to see Chad. Anyway, we talked a bit about this topic last week...

Don't Follow the Lemmings - Chad Fowler XP West Michigan

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8984753198261505541

1. Sue, Jake, Josh
2. Justin, Joel, Barb, Paul
3. Craig, Reed, Cliff, Kevin
4. Andy, John, Joe, Scott
5. Dan, Carrie, John H.

Should have mentioned this in class, alas I forgot.  We'll be talking  
about JRuby (and I'm trying to get Charlie to speak in class) but  
this event is still worth attending.  I assume there is still space  
but I could be wrong...

YOU'RE INVITED!

Join us at this month's Breakfast Brief seminar covering Ruby on the
Java Platform.

DATE: January 25, 2007
LOCATION:  University of St. Thomas - Minneapolis Campus, Schultz Hall
Auditorium
TIME: 8:00 AM Registration, 8:00 - 11:30 AM Session

Ruby and Rails represent the fastest-growing segment of the technical
book market. Developers realize both will influence the direction of web
application development in the future. JRuby brings Ruby and Rails to
the Java platform today.

REGISTER AT:
http://www.suneventreg.com/cgi-bin/pup_registration.pl?EventID=1244
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Sun customers, partners, employees and the developer community-at-large
are welcome to attend.  This session is designed for information
technology professionals, developers, system administrators and system
engineers from the local community interested in increasing their
knowledge about the technologies that may impact their day-to-day
profession.

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AGENDA:
8:00 AM To 8:30 AM      Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM To 8:40 AM      Welcome and Introductions
8:40 AM To 9:15 AM      Introduction to Ruby
9:15 AM To 9:45 AM      Ruby on the Java Platform
9:45 AM To 10:00 AM     Break
10:00 AM To 10:30 AM    JRuby on Rails - Part I
10:30 AM To 11:00 AM    JRuby on Rails - Part II
11:00 AM To 11:30 AM    Q&A
11:30 AM To 12:00 PM    Wrap Up and Raffle

REGISTER AT:
http://www.suneventreg.com/cgi-bin/pup_registration.pl?EventID=1244
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