21st February – REST & Women in Engineering
We are lucky to have two speakers to entertain us this month! First up is Rob Lee speaking on “Take a REST with Rails”, followed by Gemma Cameron speaking about “Women in Engineering”.
Take a REST with Rails with Rob Lee
A look at the new features in Rails 1.2 that support the REST architectural style. Starting with a basic overview of REST and then looking at the modifications to routing, generators and the shift in conceptual design to deploy RESTful applications on Rails. To finish, we’ll take a (quick) look at consuming RESTFul resources with ActiveResource.
Women in Engineering with Gemma Cameron
My experiences of being a minority within the software engineering field. My thoughts on why it seems to be white, middle class, male dominated and what I think we can do to help diversify the demographic. Please bring along your own opinion on this as there will be plenty of time for questions and debate!
Schedule
- 6:30pm :: Welcome & Registration
- 7:00pm :: Take a REST with Rails by Rob Lee
- 8:00pm :: Break
- 8:15pm :: Women in Engineering by Gemma Cameron
- 8:45pm :: Drinks at the Gallery Bar (Opposite the MDDA)
Sign Up
If you would like to attend this event, please sign up on the Upcoming event page
Location
This meeting is being held at our regular venue, the MDDA offices on Portland Street in central Manchester (Directions).
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