Karmen Blake | The Intersection of Art and Technology

This is my second talk related to Erlang. Both have been introductory and well received. I hope you enjoy my slide presentation. I also did a chat demo using real-time updates using Comet. Presented at Silicon Valley Web Builders meetup Introduction to Erlang Presentation Chat Demo code Erlang web framework used: Nitrogen

If you missed my "Beginning Erlang for Ruby Developers" here is a link to the presentation. https://beg-erlang-for-ruby-devs.herokuapp.com/

I wrote a guest blog post for RubyLearning and they posted it on their blog. Please go check it out: http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/09/23/incorporating-web-apis-to-spark-computer-programming-exercises/ The blog post is intended for Ruby newbies. I hope people find it valuable as they learn a great programming language.

I use a MacBook Pro for work and pleasure on a day-to-day basis. Recently, I was asked to teach web students at a local high school. These students know html/graphics/flash/etc. The advanced students were ready for some server-side programming and database integration. I wanted the students to be able to get up and going quickly (for motivation reasons) and to create useful apps (using a database). I felt Sinatra to be a great fit for this. I created a Sinatra app for my uncle and his business. It was a joy to work with it and I was able to deploy quickly using Heroku . My experience of using Sinatra on my Mac was straightforward. Like most things using Ruby and Mac: it just worked. However, I found out the students at the high school use MS Windows. Fortunately, I have a Windows XP virtual machine running in VMWare so I could prepare that way. I used to teach computer science and web development at Spokane Community College and am aware of teaching Ruby in a Windows lab environm

Presentation I gave at the Spokane Ruby User Group . Wednesday March 3rd, 2010.