Sponsors

Diamond Sponsors

  • Intel
  • Microsoft

Platinum Sponsors

  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems

Gold Sponsors

  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra

Silver Sponsors

  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware

Premier Media Partner

  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the conference, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com.

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Media Partner Opportunities

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Press and Media

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Ben Bleything

Ben Bleything

Bleything Consulting

Ben Bleything is a Rubyist and amateur hardware hacker from Portland, Oregon. Ben Bleything is a Rubyist and hardware hacker, having come to Ruby by way of PHP and Perl. He has been slinging Ruby since 2005, when the sweet seductive voice of Rails called his name. Since then he has broken into the wild world of pure Ruby, for which he gets paid real money. Ben resides in beautiful Portland, Oregon.

Sessions

1:45pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Controlling Electronics with Ruby
Ruby
 Location: F151
Ben Bleything (Bleything Consulting) Moderated by: Ben Bleything
It used to be that in order to program a microcontroller, you had to get down and dirty with assembly or, if you were really lucky, C. No longer. I'll show a number of ways that you can control embedded devices from your beloved Ruby. Read more.
OSCON 2008