Josh Susser

Josh Susser is a freelance developer specializing in Ruby on Rails web applications. He got started with object-oriented programming doing Smalltalk at Xerox back in the glory days. His Smalltalk work ranged from application and system programming in Smalltalk to virtual machine development in microcode. At Apple he was a principle designer of the long-lamented OpenDoc, and at Sun Microsystems he was a principle designer and author of the Java Card 2.0 Virtual Machine Specification.

Working in Ruby has let Josh escape the tedium of hybrid OOP languages and get back to his dynamic language roots. In the Rails community, Josh is a frequent contributor to the Rails open source project and keeps a popular Rails programming blog.

Presentation: "Panel: When is Rails an Appropriate Choice?"

Track: The Rise of Ruby

Time: Friday 16:00 - 17:00

Location: Franciscan II

Abstract:

Rails has taken the development world by storm, being compared to Java in the skills parade of recent job adverts. But is Rails the right choice?

This panel of experts will discuss the reasons for picking the framework over other platform options, exploring topics such as choosing the platform for prototyping, scalability and ease of management.

Join us to get involved with the QandA and decide for yourself if switching to Rails is the path for you.