Coding16 Jun 2007 02:39 pm
Mapping Rails to Legacy Systems
Last month a bunch of us were sent by Vonage to RailsConf 2007. I did a talk (with my co-worker Stephen Becker) on working with legacy systems, and the approach we have been talking to using rails (and other technologies) to eat away at the problem (I’ve since nick named this approach the “Evaporative Model of Legacy System Maintenance”). I’ve had a couple people ask me for the presentation or a transcript, so I’m posting those here now.
Mapping Rails to Legacy Systems presentation PDF
Mapping Rails to Legacy Systems transcription TXT
At some point I’ll transform this into a proper paper if people are interested.
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June 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Damn good presentation. Now if I could get *current client* to listen.
Oh! One more thing. Check out Flex if you get a chance. I’ve worked with it on a couple of projects now and it solves so many problems inherent in the JSP / Javasctipt (Ajax) stack.
July 13th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
[...] I got involved with a back and forth on twitter today about rails, and ultimately I realized that there was no way to give my full opinion of the problems facing the rails community in 140 byte snippets. I’m not saying my opinion is the end all be all, but I have lead probably half a dozen rails projects and I did speak at RailsConf 2007. [...]