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Online presentation with thoughtbot and Heroku
Adarsh, Alex, and I are giving a free online presentation with Abe from Heroku about how their platform fits into our process. Over 1,400 people have registered so far! The details:
- Tomorrow, April 17
- Once at 7:00am PST (2:00pm GMT / 7:30pm IST)
- A second time at 10:00am PST (5:00pm GMT / 10:30pm IST)
We will be live coding(!), making a single change to a live web application hosted on Heroku within the context of a common process for us:
- Campfire for real-time communication and alerts.
- Trello for managing the task and tracking discussion.
- Our git protocol.
- GitHub pull request-based code review.
- Shortcuts from thoughtbot/dotfiles.
- Staging and production environments on Heroku.
We will also show a few other goodies:
- Heroku config variables.
- Heroku addons.
- Heroku 2x dynos.
- Using Apache Bench for simple load and memory tests.
- Each dyno handling about ~1,000 requests per minute for a static site.
- Unicorn, Sinatra, and Ruby 2.0’s Copy-On-Write garbage collection.
- Using log2viz for performance and memory visibility.
We will share an open source web application and a read-only Trello board during the presentation. There will be a question-and-answer session at the end.
Hope to see you online! RSVP here.
UPDATE: Heroku has posted a recording to YouTube.
Introducing The Playbook Online Workshop
We’ve been offering a video version of The Playbook for some time, and now we’re happy to announce the evolution of that concept, the new Playbook Workshop.
This workshop is the real-time, expanded version of The Playbook. We’ll start with the video lessons and then work together on practical examples and your own real ideas. We will go through an example of building an actual application and we’ll explore all of the pieces of the web design and development process, including the tools and team.
The first session of this new workshop runs from April 8th to the 19th, and is available for registration individually for $499, or you can subscribe to Learn Prime, to get access to this workshop, and all our other workshops, books, and screencasts for just $99/month.
Learn more and register today. I hope to see you in the workshop!
Playbook video, “Development”, now unlocked!
We’ve just unlocked the 4th video in the The Playbook: Video Edition: Development.
In this 34 minute HD video I cover development, our development principles, our development process, the main tools we use, and our default platform choices.
If you haven’t grabbed this series, now is an excellent time as I’ll be hosting a live Q&A session for all who’ve purchased this Wednesday, August 1st, 2012 at 3pm US Eastern time.
This video joins the three other videos in the series that we’ve already released:
- Making plans and designing a product (15 min, Available now)
- Building a team (15 min, Available now)
- The design process (30 min, Available now)
- Successful development practices and platform choices (34 min, Available now)
- Launching! (20 min, Available 8/3)
When you purchase this series of videos you also get one on one and group support directly from me and other members of the thoughtbot crew. Ask us any questions you have about startups, building successful application, Rails, and mobile and web development.
You can view more information about the video series on our workshops site.
Third Playbook video, “Design”, now unlocked!
It’s been two weeks since we launched The Playbook: Video Edition, and that means we’ve just unlocked the 3rd video in the series: Design.
In this 30 minute HD video I cover design, our design principles, and our design process. As an illustrative example, I use our own application, Trajectory.
This video joins the two other videos in the series that we’ve already released:
- Making plans and designing a product (15 min, Available now)
- Building a team (15 min, Available now)
- The design process (30 min, Available now)
- Successful development practices and platform choices (20 min, Available 7/27)
- Launching! (20 min, Available 8/3)
When you purchase this series of videos you also get one on one and group support directly from me and other members of the thoughtbot crew. Ask us any questions you have about startups, building successful application, Rails, and mobile and web development.
You can view more information about the video series on our workshops site.
The Playbook: Video Edition
We’ve been giving an in-person workshop in Boston for a couple of years that goes through our best practices in successful web application development. People all over the world have been asking if there was a way we could bring this workshop to them.
This series of five high-definition videos is just that. I’ve made an introductory video which describes it in more detail:
When you purchase this series of videos you also get one on one and group support directly from me and other members of the thoughtbot crew. Ask us any questions you have about startups, building successful application, Rails, and mobile and web development.
The first video in the series “Planning” is available today. We’ll be releasing the next four videos each week for next four weeks, and purchasing the series today gets you all future videos as well as the support.
- Making plans and designing a product (15 min, Available now)
- Building a team (15 min, Available 7/13)
- The design process (30 min, Available 7/20)
- Successful development practices and platform choices (20 min, Available 7/27)
- Launching! (20 min, Available 8/3)
For the in-person workshop in Boston we charged $250. Today, you can purchase this new video series, with the one on one and group support, for just $49 for you, or $199 for your entire company.
You can view more information about the video series on our workshops site.
