litany against fear
coding with spice ¤ by nick quaranto
Professional Ruby Conference Notes
published 18 Nov 2008
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
- Keynote, from Obie Fernandez.
- Riding Rails at The New York Times, from Ben Koski.
- JRuby: Who What Now?, from Thomas Enebo
- Introduction to Mongrel, from Matt Pelletier
- The many facets of Ruby at AT&T Interactive Notes, from Coby Randquist
- Demystifying Rails Plugin Development, from Nick Plante
- Four Years of Ruby Development, from Ezra Zygmuntowicz
- Nature Network Stays Agile in the Enterprise, from Matt Janowski
- Refactoring Complex Domains in Ruby on Rails Notes, from Shane Harvie
Wednesday
- 5 Great Talks, from Matt Knox
- Payment Processing with ActiveMerchant, from Cody Fauser
- Rock Solid Ruby Deployments, from Philippe Hanrigou
- Messaging with Ruby on Rails, from Blaine Cook
- Mobile Developments, from Matt Pelletier
- Testing as Communication: Real-World Techniques, from Jon Larkowski
- Surviving as a Windows Based Rails Developer, from David Berube
- Rails AntiPatterns, from Chad Pytel and Tammer Saleh
- Battle Royale: Merb’s Role in the MVC Holy Wars, from Foy Savas
- Sinful Ruby, from Will Koffel
Thursday
- Ruby: Fragile or Agile?, from Josh Susser
- RESTful Possibilities – REST in Rails and Beyond, from James Golick
- Using Berkeley DB and Ruby for Large Data Sets, from Matt Bauer
- Contributing to Insoshi with Git and GitHub, from Michael Hartl