BEGIN:VCALENDAR
X-WR-CALNAME:RailsConf 2009
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:Expectnation
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
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:20090504T170000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T133000
DTSTAMP:20090508T000011
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7590
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-13:30--7590
SUMMARY:A Hat Full of Tricks with Sinatra
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Blake Mizerany (Heroku). Sinatra is Ruby's most
  powerful and agile micro-framework.  This small package packs a huge pu
 nch.  Learn why you need this tool on your belt and how to use it proper
 ly.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T213000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090504T203000
DTSTAMP:20090514T205728
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9221
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-20:30--9221
SUMMARY:Teaching Rails
DESCRIPTION:The Rails community has a plethora of experienced, talented 
 developers, who have contributed a great deal of advanced work to the ec
 osystem. As a group, however, we've lacked a consistent and welcoming ap
 proach for newcomers, be they programming newbies or people experienced 
 in another technology. Let's talk about ways to fix that!
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T114500
DTSTAMP:20090512T151847
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8772
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-11:45--8772
SUMMARY:Discussion Panel: Women In Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Desi McAdam (Hashrocket Inc and DevChix Inc), S
 arah Mei (Pivotal Labs), Lori Olson (The WNDX Group Inc.). Meet some of 
 the women from the Rails community. Hear about their experiences and wha
 t they have to say about how to bring more female programmers into our a
 lready amazing community, as well as how to get them more involved and a
 ctive in it once they're here.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T135000
DTSTAMP:20090507T211442
LOCATION:Pavilion 1
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7720
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-13:50--7720
SUMMARY:Develop with pleasure, Deploy with Fun: GlassFish and NetBeans f
 or a better Rails experience
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems). This session pro
 vides all the details on how GlassFish, and NetBeans provide a fun and r
 obust development, deployment, and management platform for Rails applica
 tions – without pain. It talks about performance tuning tips, scalabilit
 y guide, capistrano recipes, monitoring guidelines and much more - all w
 ithout using Java code.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T145000
DTSTAMP:20090512T012308
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8711
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-14:50--8711
SUMMARY:JRuby: State of the Art
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc), Thomas Enebo
  (Engine Yard, Inc.). Since last year, JRuby usage has grown tremendousl
 y. We've also released more than a dozen releases, fixed hundreds of bug
 s, and committed thousands of revisions. In this session we'll update yo
 u on JRuby performance in real applications, show you what people are us
 ing it for like GUIs and games, and demonstrate how JRuby is improving t
 he Ruby and Rails worlds.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T162500
DTSTAMP:20090515T202721
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7721
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-16:25--7721
SUMMARY:Blood, Sweat and Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Obie Fernandez (InfoQ). Obie reveals secrets of
  survival in the Rails consultancy and contracting business, based on hi
 s real-life experience as founder and CEO of Hashrocket.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T104500
DTSTAMP:20090511T205908
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8517
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-10:45--8517
SUMMARY:Twitter on Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Bleigh (Intridea). Twitter is a bustlin
 g universe full of opportunities to create crazy, useful and crazy usefu
 l applications. Get a kick start to creating Twitter applications in Rai
 ls using TwitterAuth, the Twitter authentication stack for Rails.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T114500
DTSTAMP:20090512T015640
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7591
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-11:45--7591
SUMMARY:Are You Taking Things Too Far?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited).
  Sometimes as developers it can be a little too easy to lose sight of th
 e big picture sometimes, we can get carried away with following the conv
 entional wisdom without thinking about why that wisdom became convention
 al.   Several great ideas and techniques can become huge time-sinks or d
 istractions if we're not careful.
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:20090511T211905
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8706
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-13:50--8706
SUMMARY:Rails in the Large:How We're Developing the Largest Rails Projec
 t in the World
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks), Paul Gross (Braintree
 ). While others have been debating whether Rails can scale to enterprise
  levels, we've been demonstrating it. This session shows how to scale Ra
 ils development to the heights.
END:VEVENT
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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