The Fast Track to Agile Web Apps: Best Practices for Higher Ed Web Development on Rails
Jason Garber
Eastern Mennonite University
Universities are dynamic places where supporting technology must keep pace with vigorous academic and student life. This presentation is a practical look at what it takes to build, deploy, and support web applications in record time using the best tools available today for source control, collaborative development, testing and deployment. Primarily I will demonstrate Ruby on Rails and why it is appropriate for development of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other social and collaborative applications, especially ones requiring AJAX enhancements. Our experiences with these technologies and frank assessments of their strengths and weaknesses will be generously sprinkled throughout.
View the presentation (24:41; .mov; Quicktime required).
April 28th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Hello, everyone. I wanted to note that because the screencast is encoded with the amazing h.264, Quicktime 7 is required.
Also, when I refer to Rails links, they’re bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/jasongarber/rails
Thanks for watching! Don’t hesitate to e-mail if you have questions for me. jason dot garber at emu dot edu
May 10th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Which software did you use to create your screen capture? I use screensnaps pro.
May 10th, 2006 at 1:38 pm
I used Snapz Pro and iMovie.
May 10th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Do you know of any software that allows the sort of editing and quiz-making that Camtasia and Captivate have but for Macs?
I enjoyed your Screencast by the way, v.informative. Ruby on Rails looks excellent.
May 11th, 2006 at 7:23 am
I haven’t looked at Camtasia or Captivate, so I guess I don’t know what I’m missing.
One of my colleagues attended a podcasting workshop last week, though, and came back with “ProfCast”:http://www.profcast.com I haven’t tried it, but it looks like an interesting tool.