Posted by Kenneth Kalmer
on March 04, 2009
I had the great privilege last night to do a presentation on Ruote at the third monthly Ruby on Beer meetup here in Gauteng. It ended up taking 35 minutes, not 20 as intended, but I think I got something across to the guys.
Ruote (and BPM in general) isn’t a light topic, but it is a game changer if you use it correctly. We use it here at inX to drive all our background provisioning of services (domains, hosting, emails, internet connectivity, etc) with great success. Attempting to do all those tasks with a state machine would have been futile.
Andrew Timberlake was kind enough to record a video of the presentation, I’ve published the video on this blog.
I’ll also start posting more on Ruote, as my involvement with the project grows. In the meantime, have a look at the following resources to get started:
Posted by Kenneth Kalmer
on July 06, 2008
Yip, its yet another Capistrano presentation… Grab it here.
I had the fortunate pleasure of guest lecturing at the Tshwane University of Technology a couple of weeks ago on Capistrano. The class was a group of final year students that are just learning Rails. The lecturer had already covered Capistrano with the students to some degree and called me in to get them excited and show them how it works in the wild.
The presentation itself doesn’t really do the session justice, it was driven more by the Q&A session afterwards.
I really enjoyed this session in particular since the students really interacted well with me and came up with some good questions and counter-arguments. I think one of the successes of the lecture was staying as far away from Rails as possible, and just focus on the dynamics of Capistrano and what an awesome tool it really is.
I’d also like to thank Jamis for this awesome tool, and all the members on the Capistrano Google Group who tirelessly help other people out with their deployment woes. Several members of the group also reviewed the presentation before my class, giving valuable feedback that I could convey to the students as well.
Capistrano Presentation @ TUT (20080529)
