February 2010
February 11, 2010
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Speaker
Levi Rosol / SportsLeeg
Topic
SportsLeeg - Adventures In My First Rails Application
SportsLeeg is the only site that offers premium levels of team management functionality and social interaction for people associated with high school and other amateur sports.
In this presentation Levi will talk about creating his first ever Rails application. From researching Rails, to building a business plan, to rolling the site out live and expanding the development team. The good, the bad and the ugly will get covered here.
Topics that will be covered:
- How the SportsLeeg idea was formed
- Rails vs. .Net
- OS X vs Ubuntu vs Windows?
- LovdByLess vs CommunityEngine
- Heroku vs WebbyNode
- Making time to build the project
- Growing the team when you have no funding
- Functionality of SportsLeeg today, and in the future
Meeting Location
Coldwell Banker / Mid-America Group Realtors
8825 Northpark Court
Johnston, Iowa
Just north of I35/80 at the 86th Street exit.
GPS coordinates: N 41° 39.368' W 93° 44.378'
Wi-fi Internet access is available.
Door Prize
We'll give away the winner's choice of the following JetBrains products:
- RubyMine Personal License
- IntelliJ IDEA Personal License
- ReSharper Personal License
- TeamCity Build Agent
- DotTrace
Dinner After the Meeting
If you can, please plan to join us for dinner at a local restaurant after the meeting.