January Meetup 2016

hosted by Tobias Pfeiffer by co.up co-up.de, 07.01.2016 at 19:30

New year, new talks, maybe you?

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Burn Your Idiomatic Ruby

Ruby makes programmers happy because of its elegant style and readable code. Rubyists like code that looks "right". Clever hacks and obscure use of syntax are frowned upon, and code linters and metrics are used to enforce a clean and idiomatic style.

But there's a danger in this attitude. Innovations may look foreign at first, and by discarding them offhand we may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. On the flip side, libraries providing good looking interfaces may be smuggling complexity into your project that is hidden underneath the surface.

Creating a plugin for Jekyll

Jekyll is an awesome static site generator written in Ruby. It's designed with simplicity in mind, but can be made more extensive and powerful by creating plugins and leveraging exisiting ruby gems.

In this presentation I'd like to give a quick overview of how…

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Arne Brasseur
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Tobias Pfeiffer
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