Posts with keyword: mtnwestrubyconf

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Jeff Barczewski on MasterView

Fri Mar 16 15:22:00 2007

Jeff Barczewski is talking about MasterView, a template engine for Rails. MasterView is a Ruby gem that enables the creation of Ruby/Rails views in standards-compliant XHTML. The problem with Rails views, at least in Jeff's view, is that you can't use standard HTML WYSIWYG editing tools to create and modify them. MasterView is a Ruby template language, meaning that you can use it without Rails. Jeff showed a demo of how the tool works and how it compares to standard Rails. One advantage is the HTML and directives for a page are kept in one place instead of multiple
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Bayesian Networks in Ruby

Fri Mar 16 13:13:00 2007

Carl Youngblood is speaking on Bayesian networks in Ruby. He starts by pointing out that building complete logical systems by building rules is necessarily a futile task. The answer? A system that accounts for ignorance and degree of belief probabilistically. He quote Norvig: "Probability provides a way of summarizing the uncertainty that comes from our laziness and ignorance." After a brief tutorial on how probability can be used to overcome the weaknesses of predicate logic, Carl launches a discussion of Bayesian inference and networks. That took quite a while, but was a good tutorial on the problems. Carl is
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Mountain West Ruby Conference

Fri Mar 16 09:19:00 2007

Registration desk(click to enlarge) I'm at the Mountain West Ruby conference today. The venue is the Salt Lake Public Library, which haps a very nice auditorium. There's a good slate of speakers. I'm looking forward to getting some information about Ruby besides Rails. I'm hoping to get some of the audio from the conference for IT Conversations. There's some good talks here and I'm anxious to see what kind of response we'll get to Ruby content from IT Conversations listeners.
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