Ben Hughes
Ruby on Rails Developer, Economics Nerd, Travel Junkie...
Presentations
Ruby on Rails - An Introduction
RIT Web Developers Club - January 14, 2008
An introduction to Ruby on Rails for newcomers.
Gave a lengthy Ruby on Rails introduction presentation to the RIT Web Developers Club, attempting to cover the major concepts in Rails.
Ruby Elegance
BarCampRochester3 - April 5, 2008
An overview of some elegant features of the Ruby language.
Prepared this 30 minute overview of the Ruby language with an emphasis on its elegant features. Also covers several open source libraries/DSLs clearly showing what kind of elegant software can be built from Ruby's dynamism.
Prototype JavaScript Framework
RIT Web Client-Server Programming Class - April 29, 2008
An overview of the Prototype JavaScript framework (part of class presentation).
Prepared this 30 minute explanation of the Prototype JavaScript framework to students in RIT's Web Client-Server Programming class. This was part of a 90 minute triple-presentation covering Prototype, jQuery, and MooTools.