Tales from the Computer Club
Last night’s Montreal on Rails meetup (their first ever) was a large step up from the Commodore 64 disk swaps of my youth, but probably a lot more significant as far as self improvement goes. A good 30-35 people showed up and the two presentations given were fantastic.
The first presentation topic was improving tests, it was given by Marc Cournoyer and included a hilarious introduction to a somewhat advanced topic. The next presentation was given by Carl Mercier, who introduced the extremely useful HAML, which appears to cut the code in your views by half by generating HTML using a simplified indentation scoped ruby based markup. Very simple and very powerful stuff and I’ll be trying it shortly.
Overall the people who attended the meetup were great and I look forward to the next one. It’s so good to see a vibrant developer scene in Montreal.
Hey Chris, I’m glad you liked my presentation! I too liked the energy there!
Thanks for the link and I hope to see you there next time!