Who will benefit from the seminar

Rapid Web Development with Ruby on Rails 2.0 is aimed at three groups of computer professionals:
  • Software developers
  • Web designers
  • Managers and entrepreneurs
Software Developers
how to produce fully-featured web sites quickly

Ruby on Rails gives you huge productivity gains: Ruby required much less coding, Rails provides turn-key solutions to all the standard web technologies, from validating forms to database access to online payments and everything else you would expect from a modern web framework.

Ruby is industrial strength: more object-oriented that Java or C++, easier to code than VB and robust (it was first released in Japan in 1995, latest release is version 1.9.0 on 2007-12-26).

Ruby on Rails has excellent feature coverage: RDBMS, AJAX, security, OpenID, e-mail, agile prototyping, unit testing, platform-independence...

What does Ruby on Rails do for me? It make you significantly more productive.
Web Designers
discover what's available, extending design scope and increasing user benefits

Web technology is advancing rapidly. You can produce better designs if you know what programmers can achieve quickly and cheaply. You can learn how to prototype ideas for consideration by clients very quickly.

Gain the skills that will position you way above the competition.
Managers and Entrepreneurs
discover highly productive ways to implement web systems

All successful business people know that business is about relationships. Customers need suppliers they can trust, not just to deliver products but also to provide assistance when necessary.

Who is a customer going to choose if, all other things being equal, they have a choice between one that merely offers products and one that also provides:
  • Readily accessible information: relevant, sound advice as well as product details.
  • The opportunity to discuss technical issues with other customers.
  • A responsive feedback mechanism.
Suppliers not only have products, they have expertise. Providing customers with that expertise empowers them, inspires confidence and builds loyalty.

People have always been able to spend face-to-face time with sales representatives and good reps will always get back to people with technical clarifications sought from experts in their company. Customers can attend seminars and trade exhibitions and they can develop their own expertise. That all takes time though. In today's fast-paced working environments, people need quick access to information and they appreciate suppliers who understand their needs. How many times have you compared product descriptions on Amazon before selecting purchases? How many times have you read customer reviews on Amazon as a guide to purchasing?

When properly executed, web sites enable suppliers to build relationships with customers and that translates into better business.

Ruby on Rails is the most productive web development framework today. What does Ruby on Rails do for me? It can help build customer relationships thereby driving your business forward. Oh, and all this technology is free.