2021-01-13 Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier

A Conversation with Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson

Moderator: Valerie Woolard,

Heroku Data Infrastructure Engineer

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM online event

Admission: Free, General Admission, open to the public

Join us for this rare opportunity to converse with Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson on all things web development. We're hoping to touch on one or more topics such as the 2021 majestic monolith, JAMStack apps, progressive web apps, adjacent fields, methodology, and antitrust. What questions do you have for DHH? We'll prioritize questions raised by you when you register in advance, and also questions posed within Zoom. We are also ecstatic to have Heroku Data Infrastructure Engineer Valerie Woolard as our moderator. Valerie is also ACM's Local Mentoring Committee Chair. This event is powered by ACM Chicago.

Agenda: (Times are Central Standard Time)

11:00am - brief intros

11:10am - Fireside Chat with Q&A

11:55am - closing

12:00pm - end

David Heinemeier Hansson, also known as "DHH", is the creator of the Ruby on Rails framework, cofounder and CTO of Basecamp, and best selling author with books such as Rework and Remote. His company recently released a new software product for email, called Hey.com, leveraging the latest lightweight Rails friendly javascript framework called StimulusJS. https://dhh.dk/

Valerie Woolard, often found online as "valeriecodes", has specialized in localization and internationalization of Ruby on Rails apps, as well as data services powering the very popular Heroku platform-as-a-service. https://local.acm.org/mentoring/

Reservations:

IMPORTANT: Register on both meetup.com and Zoom. The zoom link is on the meetup site. Note the 11 AM start time.

Click here to Reserve for Wednesday, January 13

or send an e-mail to greg@neumarke.net

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