1. Sliding Summer on Rails@slideshare
SlideShare inc. [May 2011-July 2011]
Summer Internship
--My Experiences

2. 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

3. 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 !

4. 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/

5. What I did @slideshare ?
 Tried killing Shadow => their administrator
panel
 Ported features from Shadow to the admin
panel on main site

6. 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 !

7. 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 !

8. 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/

9. 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 !

10. 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 !

11. 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 !

12. 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 !

13. Memories and Signing off !