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POODR Talk Video

Posted by Declan McGrath on 29 April 2013.

For those who didn’t make it down to Chris McGrath’s excellent POODR talk at Intercom on April 16th - good news! It’s been recorded…

Video (HD recommended for readable slides)

Audio Only (SoundCloud & MP3)

If you’re into social audio and all that then the spoken word of Chris’ soothing voice has been released on SoundCloud…

And for all you Ruby lovin' joggers out there, that need something to listen to while running round the park, it’s also been released in MP3 format.

Thanks again to everyone who attend and helped to make it such a great evening and Intercom for hosting.

• More about POODR on the POODR site
• Some additional links and materials available in the previous Ruby Ireland blog post
• Slides are now on speakerdeck

POODR talk links

Posted by Chris McGrath on 14 April 2013.

Thanks to all who attended my talk last night. Big thanks to Intercom for providing the venue and the food and drink!

As promised here are some links.

• The POODR site
• The Ruby Rogues POODR episode
• Sandi Metz’s Rules
• The Code Climate blog post 7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models
• PlantUML for generating sequence diagrams from text
• Gist of the helper script I use to generate the diagrams
• The Ruby Parley mailing list
• Go Ahead, Make a Mess from Rocky Mountain Ruby last year. (Thanks to Papp László for this link.)

Rails Girls Galway

Posted by Myriam on 28 March 2013.

Rails Girls: Women, join the Internet playground.

Ireland’s second Ruby on Rails workshop for women, following the successful event in Dublin will be held in Galway! The free weekend workshop will let girls and women in on the exciting world of building web applications and software services.

Rails Girls is a 12-hour Ruby-on-Rails workshop for absolute beginners in the world of programming and web development. It will be held on May 17-18th, 2013, supported by DERI and 091labs.

The weekend event is free and open to all enthusiastic girls and women. Rails Girls wants to empower girls to build the capacity and acquire the tools to conquer the last online frontier.

The first event, launched by Linda Liukas and Karri Saarinen, was held in Helsinki in 2010 and got over 100 interested girls signed-up for the workshop. Since then the free events have expanded to Shanghai, Tallinn, Berlin, Krakow, Rome and many more attracting thousands of girls to the world of web building. Karri Saarinen explains:

The Internet was built by and for boys. As a girl, one often feels like lacking the vocabulary to access it. With Rails Girls, we want to demystify the world of web applications and encourage women to learn about software development and programming. We believe that women need the skills and language to understand that world.

Let’s get excited Making Things with the Web! Applications are now opened till April 30th .