ACM Meeting Friday @ 4:30 – Facebook Development Part 2

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held on Friday, January 30th at 4:30pm in LH 133.

James Bracy will be presenting part 2 of Facebook development with Ruby on Rails.
Facebook has over 60 million users. Facebook applications are a great way find a captive audience.
Come and see a live demo about how to create a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails.

Free drinks will be provided!

I hope to see you there,

Elijah Lofgren

LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting – Friday 4:30pm – CMS Made Simple Development

Hi Everyone!

The next ACM meeting will be held on January 23, at 4:30pm in LH 133. The speaker will be Elijah Lofgren. I will be presenting an introduction to using and extending CMS Made Simple. This presentation will include a live coding demo in which a CMSMS module will be developed which adds a simple visitor logging feature to CMSMS.

CMS Made Simple is a free and open source PHP/MySQL website content management system. I am a former CMS Made Simple developer and have created 4 CMSMS modules and contributed to others.

Free drinks will be provided as usual.

Two announcements:

* One of the Spring Break trips will be going to HCJB and in addition to general construction/setup help, they are looking for CS Juniors or Seniors for projects such developing software for digital radio broadcasting equipment, researching and testing computer hardware, and developing software for automated notification of inventory system activity. If you are interested, please see Dr. Graff for more information.

* There is a volunteer opportunity this Saturday morning.  Interested in helping update the Gregg County Historical Museum’s Patrons database?  Previous database experience preferred, but not required.  Saturday morning from 9:00-11:30.  Contact Dr. Baas for details.

I hope you can make it,

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

ACM Meeting Friday @ 4:30 – Facebook development with Ruby on Rails

Hi Everyone!

Our first 2009 ACM meeting will be held this Friday, January 16th in Longview Hall room 133 at 4:30 PM. James Bracy will be presenting on Facebook development with Ruby on Rails.

Facebook has over 60 million users. Facebook applications are a great way find a captive audience. You will learn at a high level how the
Facebook API works and the tools available to developers.

You will also see a live demo about how to create a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails.

Free drinks will be provided! I hope to see you there!

Also, if you haven’t become an official LETU ACM member yet, please consider it. Becoming an official member helps pay for drinks and allows you to put on your resume that you were an official member of an ACM student chapter. The cost to become an official member is $5.

And now, 3 announcements:

Dr. Baas received a work possibility from General Dynamics, part time ~10-15 hours.

Workflow Visualization

General Dynamics – Kilgore

VBA and SQL experience desired.

A volunteer is needed to work with an existing database of Museum patrons.

Patrons Database Cleanup

Gregg County Historical Museum

Interested students should contact Dr. Baas regarding either of these positions.

Drew Crawford would also like students to apply for free accounts to his latest project by going to tinyurl.com/newsbeta

Elijah Lofgren
LETU ACM President

No ACM meeting tomorrow

Hi All,

I just wanted to let you know that we don’t have a meeting this Friday.

Our first meeting will be in a week or two. It will be on making a Facebook application with Ruby on Rails which should be quite interesting. I’ll let you know more details when we have a firm date for it.

I hope your first week back finishes up well,

Elijah Lofgren

LETU ACM President