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X-WR-CALNAME:RailsConf 2009
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T083000
DTSTAMP:20090511T224238
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7787
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-08:30--7787
SUMMARY:JRuby on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.). Get an in
 troduction to the JRuby ecosystem and all it offers for Rails developmen
 t and deployment, including setup, gems, java integration, application s
 ervers, virtual machine tuning, custom embedding, and more.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T083000
DTSTAMP:20100128T180602
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7589
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-08:30--7589
SUMMARY:jQuery on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.). A 3 hour tutorial w
 ith Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard on jQuery on Rails.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T170000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T133000
DTSTAMP:20090826T113902
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7770
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-13:30--7770
SUMMARY:Solving the Riddle of Search: Using Sphinx with Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Pat Allan (Freelancing Gods). The more complex 
 your search queries becomes, the uglier your SQL statements get, even wi
 th ActiveRecord's helpful magic. Reclaim some clarity in your code by us
 ing the Sphinx search engine, a powerful tool that lets you search acros
 s your models in fast and complex ways.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T104500
DTSTAMP:20090514T140304
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8474
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-10:45--8474
SUMMARY:Don't Mock Yourself Out
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Chelimsky (DRW Trading). Used appropriate
 ly, mock objects are a powerful design tool that can lead to highly main
 tainable applications. Used in the wrong context, they can lead to painf
 ully brittle test suites. Attendees will leave this session with more in
 sight into mock objects, and a better handle on when it makes sense to u
 se them.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T114500
DTSTAMP:20090521T000705
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8004
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-11:45--8004
SUMMARY:In Praise of Non-Fixtured Data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kevin Barnes (OG Consulting). This talk explore
 s why fixtures are mostly bad, what can be done to “fix” the unmanageabl
 e miscreant that fixtures have evolved into, and cross-examines the new 
 breed of data generators.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T135000
DTSTAMP:20090608T192200
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8013
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-13:50--8013
SUMMARY:JavaScript Testing in Rails: Fast, Headless, In-Browser. Pick An
 y Three.
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Larry Karnowski (Relevance, Inc.), Jason Rudolp
 h (Relevance, Inc.). Learn how to enjoy the benefits of test-driven deve
 lopment beyond just your Ruby on Rails code; JavaScript is code too, and
  it deserves tests! With the help of some handy plugins, Rails lets you 
 test your unobtrusive JavaScript using tools such as Screw.Unit and Smok
 e.   The tools and approach are library-agnostic; they work well with jQ
 uery, Prototype, and others.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T145000
DTSTAMP:20090513T170652
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7846
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-14:50--7846
SUMMARY:Below and Beneath TDD: Test Last Development and Other Real-Worl
 d Test Patterns
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Noel Rappin (Obtiva). This talk explores what m
 akes Test Driven Development really work by showing what happens where t
 he process breaks down, focusing on rapid feedback as the key to asucces
 sful test-driven process. It also creates a vocabulary for talking about
  malformed test processes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T162500
DTSTAMP:20090515T174633
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7722
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-16:25--7722
SUMMARY:Quality Code with Cucumber
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aslak Hellesøy (Bekk Consulting AS). Cucumber i
 s a novel tool for Behaviour Driven Development. While early BDD tools l
 ike RSpec and Shoulda are geared towards programmers, classes and object
 s, Cucumber nicely fills the communication gap between customers, progra
 mmers and testers. This session will change how you approach requirement
 s and testing of Rails applications.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T181500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T174500
DTSTAMP:20090514T205739
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9067
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-17:45--9067
SUMMARY:Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs). We'll be handing out
  several trophies to people we believe to be Ruby Heroes, and giving the
 m the round of applause they deserve and might not get otherwise.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T191500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T181500
DTSTAMP:20090527T233706
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9034
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-18:15--9034
SUMMARY:Keynote
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Timothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek). Keynote 
 by Tim Ferriss, author of the Four Hour Work-Week.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T104500
DTSTAMP:20090511T132753
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7935
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-10:45--7935
SUMMARY:Using metric_fu to Make Your Rails Code Better
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jake Scruggs (Backstop Solutions). How can you 
 make sure that your beautiful Rails code doesn't degrade over time as mo
 re people join a project and deadlines loom?  Well, there are tools to m
 easure test coverage, code complexity, churn, bad practices, duplication
 , and code smell.  And all of these various open source projects have be
 en mashed together in metric_fu - a Ruby gem that makes measuring the qu
 ality of your code easy.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T114500
DTSTAMP:20090528T222131
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7539
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-11:45--7539
SUMMARY:Rails3: Step Off of the Golden Path
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Aimonetti (m|a agile consulting). Rails3 i
 s the result of the Merb and Rails merger. While the usual ActiveRecord/
 ERB/Prototype/Test::Unit full stack is still the default, Rails3 now let
  you step off of the golden path.  Learn more about alternative stack co
 mponents, when and why to use them by looking at concrete examples.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T135000
DTSTAMP:20090512T171430
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7804
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-13:50--7804
SUMMARY:Rails and Legacy Databases
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Hogan (NAPCS). Want to use Rails but are 
 stuck with a nasty existing database? No problem. This session will show
  you how we managed to defeat an ugly beast of a system. You'll come awa
 y armed with some strategies you can employ to slay even the ugliest sch
 emas.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T145000
DTSTAMP:20090511T134226
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7847
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-14:50--7847
SUMMARY:Working Effectively with Legacy Rails Code
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Pat Maddox (Goldstar Events), BJ Clark (Goldsta
 r.com). Rails has been out for a few years now.  We're past the blogs, p
 ast the first couple rounds of new apps, and now have legacy systems to 
 maintain.  What strategies can we use for improving these systems? What 
 specific challenges are there for Rails apps, and how does Ruby allow us
  to meet them in unique ways?  We'll look at all of this and more, in "W
 orking effectively with legacy Rails code"
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T162500
DTSTAMP:20100111T153804
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8519
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-16:25--8519
SUMMARY:%w(map reduce).first - A Tale About Rabbits, Latency, and Slim C
 rontabs
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paolo Negri (wooga.com). Discover how is possib
 le to use parallel execution to batch process large amount of data, lear
 n how to use queues to distribute workload and coordinate processes, inc
 rease the throughput on system with high latency. Have fun with EventMac
 hine, AMQP, RabbitMQ and get rid of that every 5mins cronjob
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T184500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T174500
DTSTAMP:20090807T201657
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8482
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-17:45--8482
SUMMARY:What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby Too
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Robert Martin (Object Mentor Inc). Keynote by B
 ob Martin, Object Mentor, Inc.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T213000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T200000
DTSTAMP:20090511T145217
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9011
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-20:00--9011
SUMMARY:Lightning Talks
DESCRIPTION:Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T101500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T092500
DTSTAMP:20090515T174908
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8554
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-09:25--8554
SUMMARY:Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bryan Helmkamp (weplay). Webrat, a Ruby DSL for
  interacting with Web applications, helps you write expressive, maintain
 able acceptance tests while sidestepping the issues traditionally associ
 ated with in-browser approaches like Selenium and Watir. We'll look at h
 ow you can use Webrat to develop a robust acceptance test suite to ensur
 e your app stays working as you refactor mercilessly.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T104500
DTSTAMP:20090510T173419
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7391
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-10:45--7391
SUMMARY:Integrating Flex and Rails with RubyAMF
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tony Hillerson (EffectiveUI). RubyAMF is a Rail
 s plug-in that allows easy, fast integration between Flex apps and Rails
  using Adobe’s open format for transferring typed data to/from Flash app
 s. We’ll walk through building a Flex application powered by a Rails bac
 k-end service. You’ll see how to work with translation to native objects
  in both directions, working with hierarchical data and more advanced co
 nfiguration options.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T114500
DTSTAMP:20090518T032457
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/6752
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-11:45--6752
SUMMARY:Automated Code Quality Checking In Ruby And Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marty Andrews (Cogent Consulting Pty Ltd). Auto
 mated code quality tools are just starting to become popular in the Ruby
  and Rails world, even though they've been around a long time in the Jav
 a and .NET communities.  Learn what the tools are, and how to use them t
 o improve the consistency, testability and overall quality of your Ruby 
 and Rails applications.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T135000
DTSTAMP:20090528T222308
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7785
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-13:50--7785
SUMMARY:The Russian Doll Pattern: Mountable apps in Rails 3
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.), Carl Lerche (Strobe
 , Inc). One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to emb
 ed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the dev
 elopment of components that range from user authentication to a fully fe
 atured forum. In this talk, Yehuda and Carl will give an in-depth tutori
 al by building a CMS, creating a gem out of it, and integrating it into 
 another app.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T160000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T151000
DTSTAMP:20090807T201804
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9019
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-15:10--9019
SUMMARY:Rails Core Panel
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Jeremy Ke
 mper (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Rick O
 lson (GitHub), Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.), Joshua Peek (Consultant). Q&A
  with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers.
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