Spring Schedule & The Hashrocket Way

Tonight we’ve updated the schedule for spring and early summer 2010. Three new classes will be debuting this season including:

Flex Jumpstart

Flex is a framework for creating advanced user interfaces and animation based on Adobe’s Flash technology. Jae Hess, a professional Flex developer, will be joining us to lead the class. More details about this class will be posted in the next week.

Ruby on Rails — Level 2

The introductory Rails class has been our most popular class to date. Now it’s time for level two. In this class you’ll learn about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with RSpec and Cucumber, using Git for source control, building views with HAML & SASS, building forms with Formtastic, and more advanced ActiveRecord features (Single-Table Inheritance, custom validations, callbacks, and more). As usual, this class will be taught in the context of a project that integrates all the topics in a real-world scenario.

The curriculum is written for people already familiar with Rails basics, like hobbyists who have created a few projects or professionals who have worked with Rails for a few months. The class is being beta tested privately, so the May session promises to be great.

The Hashrocket Way

We’re very excited to announce a partnership with Hashrocket, one of the world’s preeminent Ruby/Rails development shops. Hashrocket pushes the envelope with their tools and process, now they want to bring those techniques to you. This one day workshop will walk you through the full development life cycle from gathering requirements with story-carding, following progress with Pivotal Tracker, developing with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and agile pairing, all the way through client acceptance.

This session is designed for professional Rails programmers or team managers who are looking to sharpen their practice. The session will be held in Baltimore the day before RailsConf 2010 and is just 3 blocks from the convention center. Read more about it on the Hashrocket website.