Sliding Summer on Rails@slideshare

SlideShare inc. [May 2011-July 2011]

Summer Internship

--My Experiences

About Me

Third year Undergraduate Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT

Bombay In love with Computer Science FOSS supporter A bit of Randomness @saketkc On twitter

Why SlideShare for internship ?

SlideShare => One of the biggest Ruby on Rails site in the world.

Open Presentations for all => kind of reminded me of my FOSS love

One of the best Web Team in the world => This was the most promising one !

In all my dream company !

How did I get There ?

Applied online ! Got a call from Amit, the COO & Cofounder of

SlideShare Follwed by 2 technical interviews, lasting 3

hours each ! Got an acceptance letter => \m/

What I did @slideshare ?

Tried killing Shadow => their administrator panel

Ported features from Shadow to the admin panel on main site

Pains and Joys

Was assigned a buddy from Day 1 \m/ He helped me get acquainted with the

awesome technology @slideshare ! Was weak @ Ruby initially, the induction

exercises helped me make the command over Ruby strionger. !

Was shot by Air Guns on the very first day => Thats the way slidesharegeeks welcome new comers !

Pains !

Ruby =>was entirely new to me and hence was RAILS

Kept figuring out RAILS views for around two weeks !

Jquery.js => Dynamism , Partials and what not ! Coded continuosly for one month , no

deployment to live !

Pains => joys

1 month , no deployment still. One the day of scheduled deployment =>

learning how to write specs ! Wrote specs => 2 more days and then there

was this beautiful command =>

git svn dcommit My first deployment to live server => \m/

More Joys

Extra support from my buddy and the team as a whole at every point of time

This helped me make Open Source Contributions , side by side .

I would write wrappers , file bugs, submit patches to the projects whose tools we were using @slideshare !

This was true awesomeness !

Perks !

Free Food :P ! Awesome stipend ! Awesomemaxxx friendly environment ! The BEST Web Team ! You get to see upto a mximum of 7

deployments to live server on one single day ! The awesomeness of Engineers that comes out

during times of crisis !

What I learnt ?

RAILS => I have divorced PHP for ever ! Git ! => This was difficult than Ruby , but

Thanks to Kapil and slideshare geeks ! Life ! => The truths about life @startups and

@big corporate comanies(There are people from Microsoft,Yahoo,Google there ! )

Crisis ! => Things not to do which brings your site down(I did it !!!!!)

Code is Life ~ ~!! and maybe vice versa !

Awesomeness !

SlideShare has the most awesome people I have come across !

Ahh ! I forgot about the ”OFF site ” to Muussoroe we had, in the very first week !!

I bet I will never get to work in a more awesome environemnt then SlideShare and so won't you !

I made friends , got a father(:p) and met aweomely beautiful and sharp people !

SlideShare is the future !

Memories and Signing off !