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Ruby on Rails eXchange: Frederick Cheung on Databases - have it your way
Databases - have it your way

If you've used Rails, it's a safe bet to say that you've used Active Record. Active Record isn't the only ruby tool out there for manipulating your database though, and Rails 3 will play nicer than ever with other ORM libraries. Find out the similarities between some of the common ORM libraries, their differences and what makes them tick.
Questions or Topics you would like to discuss with Frederick? Tweet them! Use tag: #rorexchange and they'll be featured in the Parkbench Panel Discussions! Download the slides here

ABOUT FREDERICK CHEUNG
I'm Frederick Cheung, a UK based rails developer. I work for a company called kgb, where I'm the chief wizard and work on all sorts of different parts of the rails apps used to answer your questions. I've also written software for the Mac and contrib
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ABOUT THE LONDON RUBY USER GROUP
LRUG is the London Ruby User Group; a community of ruby developers based in and around London. We meet up at least once a month; on the 2nd Wednesday of the month we have meetings with talks, demos and such-like and then we have pub-based meetups organised on an ad-hoc basis (roughly half-way between meetings).
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PODCAST DATABASES - HAVE IT YOUR WAY

This session took part at the Ruby on Rails eXchange. You can view the other 8 podcasts here.
JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 PODCASTS
Russel Winder:Python is a High Performance Programming Language, High Performance Python
Russel Winder : 31st Jan 2012
View Podcast: Python is a High Performance Programming Language,
Chris Adams:What's been happening in Wordpress , What's happening in Wordpress
Chris Adams : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: What's been happening in Wordpress ,
Mark Mitchell:Wordpress Responsive Design, Wordpress Responsive Design
Mark Mitchell : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Wordpress Responsive Design,
Peter Westwood:Scaling WordPress, Scaling WordPress
Peter Westwood : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Scaling WordPress,
Dave Springgay :HTML5, Android Webview and java bridging, HTML5 & Android Webview
Dave Springgay : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: HTML5, Android Webview and java bridging,
Jonathan Anthony :Titatnium & PhoneGap, Titatnium & PhoneGap...
Jonathan Anthony : 19th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Titatnium & PhoneGap,
Andy Richardson:Trends and Patterns, Trends & Patterns
Andy Richardson : 10th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Trends and Patterns,
Chris McGrath:I18n, I18n
Chris McGrath : 9th Jan 2012
View Podcast: I18n,
Joe Corcoran:Judge: Client side form validation for Rails 3, Judge
Joe Corcoran : 9th Jan 2012
View Podcast: Judge: Client side form validation for Rails 3,
Christian  Heilmann:Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID, BrowserID
Christian Heilmann : 13th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Rethinking User Registration with BrowserID,
 :Usable APIs, Usable APIs
: 12th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Usable APIs,
 :Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State, HATEOS
: 12th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State,
Chris O Davies:Introduction to User Group and Heroku, Heroku platform
Chris O Davies : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Introduction to User Group and Heroku,
Nicola Tassini:Deploying Java Apps to Heroku, Deploying Java Apps to Heroku
Nicola Tassini : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: Deploying Java Apps to Heroku,
John Beynon:The Why, What and How of Heroku, The Why, What and How of Heroku
John Beynon : 5th Dec 2011
View Podcast: The Why, What and How of Heroku,
OTHER JAVASCRIPT & HTML5 EVENTS
Official RNIB Accessibility Hackathon, Official RNIB Accessibility Hackathon
CONFERENCE (2 DAYS)
London, Saturday, February 11th BOOK NOW!
Russel Winder:Russel Winder's Python Workshop,  Russel Winder's Python Workshop
4 DAY COURSE. Featuring Russel Winder
London, Monday, February 13th
Damjan Vujnovic Coding Kata,  Coding Kata
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Damjan Vujnovic
London, Wednesday, February 15th
London Ruby User Group:LRUG Feb Lightning Talks, London Ruby User Group
FREE EVENT: LRUG lightning
London, Tuesday, February 21st
QCon London 2012, QCon London 2012
CONFERENCE (3 DAYS)
London, Wednesday, March 7th BOOK NOW!
Elevate Events:Elevate Launch Event, Elevate Events
FREE EVENT: elevate-launch-event
London, Wednesday, March 7th
Abisola  Fatokun Implementing Enterprise Search at Sky,  Implementing Enterprise Search at Sky
FREE EVENT: In The Brain of Abisola Fatokun
London, Thursday, March 8th
London Ajax User Group:This is Dart , London Ajax User Group
FREE EVENT: Dart
London, Tuesday, March 13th
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