SvROR meetup, 2008/09/25
Jerry Luk, LinkedIn
- Bumper Sticker RoR app: 17M users, 900M views/month
- NewIN – show new linkedin uses on google maps / ?globe9?
- LinkedIn mobile
- LinkedIn iPhone App (not rails)
- OpenSocial Sandbox (hackday project)
- LinkedIn Polls using JRuby
- Use Starling, Beanstalk looking at JMS
Emmet @ JustIn.tv
- Website for live video on the Internet (Youtube but live!)
- Wrote a caching reverse proxy in Python & Twisted.
- Use Twisted : Network Protocols :: Rails
- Caches smaller than page items – don’t expire page just to change your name or flash.
- This is a badass application.
At this point the LinkedIn guest wireless network asked me to reauthenticate and I lost access to this post and stopped writing. However…
The last talk from Adam @ Heroku was great. He is indeed correct – people focus way too much on Heroku’s web tools. The command line tool is way more interesting.