Demos

1. Pongyow
2. Reg – a Ruby pattern-matching language
   
3. Spock (is hiring)
4. AWS Console – Amazon Virtual Server management (Thorsten von Eicken)
5. Scrap Ease – online scrapbooking application
6. Zvents (is hiring)
7. DropVolley.com – monetize trash talking
8. Ozmozr
9. FaceBook API Ruby client
10. Lingr
    
11. Mephisto
12. MaxWiki (Instiki on steroids)
13. Blue Okaapi
    
14. Sliki
    
15. Engine Yard
16. SpongeCell – AJAX Calendar
17. Predictive Modeling Engine
18. GeneTracker tracks bacterial strains
19. Gozong.com – nightclub photo site (Chad Alderson – send e-mail to chadalderson @ gmail.com if you want access to site)
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21. Haml – markup language to replace .rhtml files
22. Koala – Wikipedia for business process – Tessa Lau
23. Swashup – Web Services Mash-Ups – Michael Maximilien

[StrataChalup speed notes—didn’t catch names and URLS as well as the notes above, included so folks can redact in.]

Folks who submitted a slide, congregate; after all slides go, then non-slides can go.

Speed geeking: 1 minute slide intro, then go to the numbered table and give/get 5 minute demos

1. Pongyow: family photo share, 2-person startup
2. Reg: pattern matching language for Ruby, based on regexp, use for other data types such as arrays, hashes, etc
3. Spock: 7 person startup, search engine for people on social web; 30% of searches are for people, half for celebrities half for long-lost people, etc. Demo will show where you are on the web (eek! creepy!); 100m people in db at launch; we are hiring
4. Java-to-Ruby: we did that one!
5. Zvents: search engine for events; based on RoR; lucene/solar on backend; we power events search for newspapers, can’t do std page caches, have developed custom plugins; got funding, looking to hire rails developers
6. AWS console: console to manage and launch rails app on Amazon S3, much easier than Amazon
7. ScrapEase: scrapbooking website, open beta now
8. Ozmozr: virtual water cooler, aggregator for rss feeds and links and people, aggregate n share things in smaller groups
9. DropVolley: works at RealTravel.com, wanted to learn rails, create site for social networks, specific to tennis, adult league tennis in northern CA, trash-talk forums, stories, theme-independent, etc
10. Lingr: chat rooms, open, free, RJS AJAX tags in your browser, uses Comet, talking about UI aspects, dynamic application
11. Mephisto: rails-based blogging engine, demo
12. MaxWiki: Max’s wiki, took inStiki, “put it on steroids, powered it up”, didn’t like ugliness of std wiki, made it skinnable, added access controls, page caching, a mailer, etc
13. Blue Okaapi: mashup of GoogleMaps, YouTube, Dave’s TV, found he had to know JS and web services APIs and CSS to actually leverage this stuff, RXML, was a rewarding learning experience
14. Sliki: create presentations within a wiki, create/edit/view online, resizes with browser, re-use html markup and css for styles, fun project; sliki == slides + wiki

— – — – – non-slides below

1. SpongeCell AJAX import calendar, demo how to enter natural language on your cellphone, have it show up on web calendar
2. ??:point n click rails deployement on our cluster
3. SidorStart: modeling predictions
4. GeneTracker: 1990 app on OS9, ported to Rails, microbiologists, strain tracking
5. GoZong.com: post photos based on city, state, venue; yahoo geo and local api used
6. Koala: IBM research; FF plugin, create scripts for automate business process, search for scripts, etc
7. HAML: stole the show at railsconf in Europe; markup language to replace RHTML;
8. SWAShop: interface into webapps
9. FaceBook: plugging their API, scary privacy issues, ‘opt-out’