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London Ruby User Group:mobileAct: a high-risk Rails app for Channel 4
mobileAct: a high-risk Rails app for Channel 4
During his talk at the March LRUG meeting, Thomas Pomfret gave us a trailer version of his talk at Scotland On Rails. During his talk Thomas discussed mobileAct Unsigned, which is the Channel 4 TV search for the best unsigned band in Britain. The site lets bands and fans to communicate and share media. In addition, users get to vote on who should win the million pound recording deal. "mobileAct: a high-risk Rails app for Channel 4" will report back on Mint's experiences building this mass-market application. In the light of recent TV voting scandals, the spotlight was on voting. In a very public arena, we had to make sure not only that the vote was fair, but that it could be seen to be fair.
ABOUT THOMAS POMFRET
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Thomas Pomfret is VP Technology at Mint Digital (http://mintdigital.com). Mint conceives, builds and runs mass-participation Rails websites and Thomas is responsible for building and maintaining all of Mint’s UK web applications.
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ABOUT THE LONDON RUBY USER GROUP
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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 MOBILEACT: A HIGH-RISK RAILS APP FOR CHANNEL 4
This session took part at the mobileAct, Long Running Rails Tasks & Ruby on the JVM. You can view the other 2 podcasts here.
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