Published on Friday, May 11, 2007

I went to the Web414 meeting last night up at MSOE.  I heard about the group at Barcamp Madison last March (They were a sponsor of the event and had a large presence there) and this was the first chance that I got to attend one of the meetings.  The group has the feel of a Barcamp with a very relaxed and participatory feel to it.  The presentations are very informal and you are encouraged to participate in open discussions before, during and after the presentations. 

There were 2 topics covered and I learned a lot during each presentation:

iStockPhoto - Mike Rohde introduced a resource for web developers and web masters to get photos for use on their web sites at a very low cost.  He also demonstrated how he has used the stock photos on a number of customer sites.   

Ruby on Rails - Tim Bailen gave an overview and demo of Ruby on Rails.  This was a nice introduction to Rails that showed some of the power of the convention versus configuration philosophy of the rails framework.  This was the first time that I saw RadRails in action, which is an IDE for Rails.

If you are interested in web technologies or web design I would encourage you to attend a future meeting.  I volunteered to give an introduction to Silverlight and the Expression tools at a future meeting - but not the June 14th meeting.  I already have a commitment that night.  :-(

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Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:45:23 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Thanks for mentioning the group, it was good to see you there.
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