At MinneBar there will be a series of 10 minute demos of projects (personal or otherwise) sprinkled throughout the day. This page lists the currently suggested demos and who is planning on leading each.
| Hey Demo-ers! You may want to consider turning your demo into a session (MinneBarSessions). Don't know how? Expand your demo into a discussion. Instead of (or in addition to) showing off functionality and features you can talk about how it was built and what processes you followed. Consider, tweaking it a bit to get more general and less specific. Think about ways to appeal to a broader base. Leading a discussion on a topic that is close to something you plan to demo isn't really any more work, and the discussion that ensues is usually much more gratifying for all. |
We will do this DemoCamp style:
1. Working code
2. No PowerPoint
Be sure to keep these focused on feedback and collaboration rather than attempting to sell an idea or product. THIS IS NOT A SALES PITCH!
Nearbie - History Connects You
Casey Helbling
Nearbie is a social networking app that allows you to explore friends, family and others with whom you share history.
Slivercast - Personalized on-demand video clip aggregator/player
Jeff Pester and Matt Bauer
Web Redesign with Ajax and Rails
Norm Orstad and Dan Weinand
A quick review of the redesign of UofMN Newman Center.
CrashPlan - Automatic off-site backup
Matthew Dornquast
"Why we reinvented backup, lessons learned, integrating desktop applications and the web."
Executable Documentation with Fit
Robert Fischer
How to improve communication and demonstrate technical accomplishments with Fit-based executable documentation. Your customers get to give requirements by example, your QAs get a scripting language they can write, and your developers get red light/green light specs: it's a beautiful thing.
PagePow - This is not your father's widget site
Joe Sriver - PagePow
The pre-release of PagePow. Discuss PagePow and what you need or would like in/on a widget site.
GetGoMN - Connecting the Minnesota Entrepreneurial Community
Scott Litman, Cofounder - GetGoMN
An update and demo on the new site for founders, investors, and those
who support them, which has already grown to some 1500 members.
FeedSeeder Project - The Collaborative Aggregator
Garrick Van Buren - FeedSeeder
An update and demo of the feed aggregator built for collaboration.
VinVillage - A wine community
Tim Elliott
Demo of the alpha Vin Village portal and outline of concept.
What Runs
Kyle Drake and Kyle Wilson - email
A wiki-esque swarming site that will establish a database of known working hardware for Linux/OSX/BSD systems by using end-user feedback. Technical focus is on multilingual table/view design, controlling damage to publicly editable table records, and best practices for digging a secret tunnel into Tim Elliott's wine cellar.
MonoRail
Kevin Dotzenrod and Louis DeJardin
MonoRail is a dotnet based MVC Web Framework inspired by Action Pack.
It differs from the standard WebForms way of development as it enforces separation of concerns; controllers just handle application flow, models represent the data, and the view is just concerned about presentation logic. Consequently, you write less code and end up with a more maintainable application.
See also the MinneBarSessions page or go back to MinneBar.
