Boston.rb Hackfest 4/29 Post Mortem

So, we were just kidding about working on the recommendable plugin. We actually worked on the bostonrb.org website some more.

The crew tonight was:

• Dan Croak
• Wyatt Greene
• Brian Underwood
• Josh Nichols
• Steve Morss

The significant things we worked on were:

• Projects have descriptions now
• Events now have a location
• Reorganized events page
  • left side has all upcoming events
  • center has next event with google map
  • right side has nothing now, but we’re thinking to put a calendar type view

Some articles, resources, that came up while hacking away:

• Jay Field’s Blog
• Software Development Lessons Learned from Poker
• Dave Thomas’s post about Shoulda
• Thoughtbot’s post about string quoting
• Dirt simple .rcss templates
• haml and sass
• YM4R/GM, Google Maps helper for Rails
• Geokit, Geocoding plugin
• Difference between && and and

The fruits of our labor have been pushed to http://bostonrb.org, and the source can be found at https://svn.thoughtbot.com/hackfest/boston_rb.