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Come see me on Sept 4th

I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking about user authentication at the next Montreal on Rails meetup, scheduled for Tuesday the 4th of September at the McGill MAASS Chemistry building, room 328. The show starts at 18h45 and I think I’ll be the first to present, so come early.

Although user authentication may sound like an advanced topic, it will be aimed mostly at the novice Rails developer as a showcase of how easy it can be to implement advanced features such as user security and roles in a Rails application. I hope to touch on a few items including the excellent Acts As Authenticated, roles and salting. If there’s anything in particular you would like to see, drop me an email.

5 Responses to “Come see me on Sept 4th”

  1. Darin Kadrioski 28 August 2007 at 4:38 pm #

    Best of luck! Tell us how it goes!

  2. Carl Mercier 30 August 2007 at 7:26 pm #

    Any chance to also hear about Restful Authentication? http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/restful_authentication

    Can’t wait to hear your talk!

  3. Chris Lamothe 30 August 2007 at 8:36 pm #

    I’ll take a look at it over the weekend. I don’t have any experience with REST so I’m curious to see what the benefits are. Thanks for the link.

  4. Junelle 30 August 2007 at 10:14 pm #

    I hope I could hear that too … Good Luck

  5. Aquero 7 September 2009 at 6:51 pm #

    I'll take a look at it over the weekend. I don't have any experience with REST so I'm curious to see what the benefits are. Thanks for the link….


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