SeeSaw’s public speech list…

If you have ever met us, you know we love to stay with other people. We really like to dicuss about our business, our vision and even all those technical details that usually fill our development days.

It happens that we organize local meetings or get invited to speech at conferences. Here we list all the places we’ve been speaking in with links to presentation material where available. Remember that having us for a public speech is easy as dropping us a note.

Quick Links:

• 2007, Jan 20 Rails: the right tool for Web2.0
• 2006, Oct 28 Servers, deployment and monitoring
• 2006, Oct 28 Ruby On Rails
• 2006, Sep 30 Web2.0 apps: Idea, Planning and Marketing
• 2006, Sep 30 Web2.0 apps: Agile Development with RubyOnRails
• 2006, Sep 30 Web2.0 apps: Servers, deployment and monitoring
• 2006, May 20 ActiveRecords: Totally Awesome!
• 2006, May 20 Ruby vs. Java in Enterprise Environments

Rails: the right tool for Web2.0

at Rome BarCamp on Jan 20, 2007 Held by Paolo Dona Where? at LinuxClub in Rome

Paolo talked about RubyOnRails, and why it’s good for Web2.0 apps. He also explained why it can be so good at improving developers life.

Watch the slides online [Firefox only]: XUL

Servers, deployment and monitoring

at Ferrara LinuxDay on Oct 28, 2006 Held by Michele Franzin Where? in Ferrara

There are many options to deploy a Rails application these days. Which one is the best? How secure or performant are your servers? Do you know the tools that can cure your sysadmin headaches? Michele show us how to be competitive and reliable without necessarily spending too much money.

Watch the slides online [Firefox only]: XUL

Ruby On Rails

at Ferrara LinuxDay on Oct 28, 2006 Held by Paolo Dona Where? in Ferrara

Paolo did a RubyOnRails showcase, explaining why SeeSaw is using it and how it can affect our productivity, happiness, satisfaction.

Watch the slides online [Firefox only]: XUL

Web2.0 apps: Idea, Planning and Marketing

at OpenExp.it on Sep 30, 2006 Held by Jacopo Murador Where? in Cerea

How should a startup plan and manage a Web2.0 application? How do you publicize it? Which part of “the long 2.0 tail” should you focus on? Jacopo dissected and answered all these questions and explained the strategies SeeSaw is adopting for its upcoming projects.

Download the slides: PDF∼150K [Italian]

Web2.0 apps: Agile Development with RubyOnRails

at OpenExp.it on Sep 30, 2006 Held by Paolo Donà Where? in Cerea

Paolo did a deep technical showcase of the core Rails features that can make you really agile. He covered DSLs, plugins, unit-functional-integration testing techniques, RJS and Ajax. The presentation then continued with a quick look at upcoming rails features as web services with ActiveResources and view standardization with SimplyHelpful.

Watch the slides online [Firefox only]: XUL

Web2.0 apps: Servers, deployment and monitoring

at OpenExp.it on Sep 30, 2006 Held by Michele Franzin Where? in Cerea

There are many options to deploy a Rails application these days. Which one is the best? How secure or performant are your servers? Do you know the tools that can cure your sysadmin headaches? Michele show us how to be competitive and reliable without necessarily spending too much money.

Watch the slides online [Firefox only]: XUL

Rails ActiveRecords: Totally Awesome!

at Ruby@JUGPadova meeting on May 20, 2006 Held by Paolo Donà Where? in Padova

ActiveRecord is a Ruby library for Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). This talk shows how this wonderful piece of code benefits from the dynamic nature of the Ruby language to give us a really fully-featured and easy to use API. Database access has never been so cool!

Download the slides: PDF∼400K

Ruby vs. Java in Enterprise Environments

at Ruby@JUGPadova meeting on May 20, 2006 Held by Jacopo Murador Where? in Padova

There is so much rumor around Ruby and RubyOnRails that some people predict it will be a substitute for Java. Jacopo explains us why it’s not going to happen (at least in a short time). A great discussion about the psychological distance between a Ruby programmer and CTRL-space people.

Download the slides: PDF∼200K [Italian]