Professional Ruby Conference Notes

I’m going to attempt to live blog and take notes about the talks at the Professional Ruby Conference today and tomorrow. Stay tuned! :) (By the way, huge thanks to Antonio Cangiano)

I’ll keep this post updated with links to the other conference notes posts as the day goes on.

The slides are going to be posted here. I’ll link the slides to my notes once the conference is over.

Tuesday

1. Keynote, from Obie Fernandez.

2. Riding Rails at The New York Times, from Ben Koski.

3. JRuby: Who What Now?, from Thomas Enebo

4. Introduction to Mongrel, from Matt Pelletier

5. The many facets of Ruby at AT&T Interactive Notes, from Coby Randquist

6. Demystifying Rails Plugin Development, from Nick Plante

7. Four Years of Ruby Development, from Ezra Zygmuntowicz

8. Nature Network Stays Agile in the Enterprise, from Matt Janowski

9. Refactoring Complex Domains in Ruby on Rails Notes, from Shane Harvie

Wednesday

1. 5 Great Talks, from Matt Knox

2. Payment Processing with ActiveMerchant, from Cody Fauser

3. Rock Solid Ruby Deployments, from Philippe Hanrigou

4. Messaging with Ruby on Rails, from Blaine Cook

5. Mobile Developments, from Matt Pelletier

6. Testing as Communication: Real-World Techniques, from Jon Larkowski

7. Surviving as a Windows Based Rails Developer, from David Berube

8. Rails AntiPatterns, from Chad Pytel and Tammer Saleh

9. Battle Royale: Merb’s Role in the MVC Holy Wars, from Foy Savas

10. Sinful Ruby, from Will Koffel

Thursday

1. Ruby: Fragile or Agile?, from Josh Susser

2. RESTful Possibilities - REST in Rails and Beyond, from James Golick

3. Using Berkeley DB and Ruby for Large Data Sets, from Matt Bauer

4. Contributing to Insoshi with Git and GitHub, from Michael Hartl

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3 Responses to “Professional Ruby Conference Notes”

  1. Great Professional Ruby Conference Coverage : Accidental Technologist wrote:

    [...] Nick’s Professional Ruby Conference Notes list each day’s events and details of each speaker.  Here are links to his notes just from Tuesday: [...]

     November 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
  2. ProRubyConf08 Wrap Up at Brent Soderberg wrote:

    [...] Nick Quaranto (pictured on the left in the photo above) did a great job live blogging the conference and took notes with all the sessions. [...]

     November 22nd, 2008 at 1:33 am
  3. Links for today - 23-11-2008 | Blogmines wrote:

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     November 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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