Update on the Rails and Ruby Presentation

Although the Ruby and Ruby on Rails Presentation was scheduled on Sunday April 1st, it was no Fools' Day joke. Mike gave the talk using the screencasts from Ruby on Rails website: Creating a weblog in 15 minutes (by the creator of Ruby on Rails himself) and Putting Flickr on Rails.

He also gave away electronic books, videos and links to online resources and IRC channels, and few days later gave a summary of the event to ICT Association of Malawi's mailing list.

It was great to have 8 guys from Lilongwe show up on a Sunday afternoon and discuss programming languages and trends. A lot of thanks Margaret Ngwira of Kamuzu College of Nursing for allowing us to use (or is it under-utilise) the Library computer room. There was an LCD projector and lots of space and computers ready to be used. We want to have such talks once a month so expect another one in May.

Like I said, the second screencast was Putting Flickr on Rails, so I've Put the photos of the Rails event on Flickr.