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X-WR-CALNAME:RailsConf 2009
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PRODID:Expectnation
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T104500
DTSTAMP:20090510T132029
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8497
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-10:45--8497
SUMMARY:The Even-Darker Art of Rails Engines
DESCRIPTION:Presented by James Adam (Free Range). A no-nonsense guide to
  making the most of the newly-integrated "engines" functionality in Rail
 s 2.3, from the guy who wrote the engines plugin itself.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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.
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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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T145000
DTSTAMP:20090528T222040
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7367
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-14:50--7367
SUMMARY:Smacking Git Around - Advanced Git Tricks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Scott Chacon (GitHub). Much of the Ruby and Rai
 ls community is now using Git, but there are a number of fun things that
  are a bit more difficult to get the hang of that are incredibly helpful
  to know when using Git.  This session will go over some advanced Git us
 age for the casual or intermediate Git user.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T162500
DTSTAMP:20090528T222049
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7592
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-16:25--7592
SUMMARY:Scaling Rails
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ninh Bui (Phusion), Hongli Lai (Phusion). 5 yea
 rs after the initial release of Ruby on Rails, multiple large and succes
 sful websites are powered by this innovative and still relatively young 
 framework. But word is still on the street that Ruby on Rails does not s
 cale. Is this true?
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T113500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T104500
DTSTAMP:20090513T102355
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9251
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-10:45--9251
SUMMARY:Getting to Know Ruby 1.9
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.). An overvie
 w of important new features and changes in Ruby 1.9, including some comp
 atibility issues to watch out for when you're migrating your 1.8 code.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T114500
DTSTAMP:20100121T085118
LOCATION:Pavilion 1
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9118
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-11:45--9118
SUMMARY:JRuby on Google App Engine
DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Woodell (Google, Inc.), Ryan Brown (Google
 , Inc.). JRuby developers can now use the Rails or Merb frameworks to de
 ploy applications to  Google App Engine. We will provide an overview of 
 App Engine, show few demos,  provide some insight into using DataStore.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T135000
DTSTAMP:20090514T205749
LOCATION:Pavilion 1
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8947
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-13:50--8947
SUMMARY:Rails Entrepreneurs Panel: Starting or Running Your Own Company
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Obie Fernandez (InfoQ), David Heinemeier Hansso
 n (37signals), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Lewis  Cirne (New Relic, Inc.). M
 eet three CEO's who have each started a successful Rails-focused company
 . How did they start, what were the keys to success, what would they do 
 differently? Whether you have started a company or are thinking about it
 , this will be interesting. Panel discussion and Q&A.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T145000
DTSTAMP:20090513T102822
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8615
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-14:50--8615
SUMMARY:Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alexander Dymo (Pluron, Inc.). You know Rails 2
 .x is fast, but your application is still slow. This session goes beyond
  the basics and gets into advanced areas such as optimizing complex has_
 many/belongs_to relationships, template rendering, browser performance, 
 database use. The session covers performance-oriented development proces
 ses and tools. Special topic: optimizing for deployment on dedicated, VP
 S and shared hosting.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T162500
DTSTAMP:20090601T203233
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7765
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-16:25--7765
SUMMARY:Starting Up Fast: Lessons from the Rails Rumble
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nick Plante (Zerosum Labs), Joe Fiorini (Within
 3), Ben Scofield (Heroku), Chris Saylor (Todobebé), James Golick (Protos
 e Inc.). The Rails Rumble is a 48-hour innovation competition in which t
 eams of up to four developers embrace their environmental constraints to
  create a number of compelling microapps with Ruby and Rails. In this pa
 nel we'll talk to a number of Rumble participants and discover the tips,
  tricks, and techniques they used to successfully launch innovative web 
 properties in an extremely short time frame.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T101500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T092500
DTSTAMP:20090512T211837
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8739
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-09:25--8739
SUMMARY:HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ryan Tomayko (GitHub). HTTP's basic caching mec
 hanisms have been around for almost a decade and still their advantages 
 and limitations are still not well understood. In this talk, we provide 
 a clear and simple explanation of how HTTP caching works, put forth a sy
 stem for classifying response cacheability, and argue that HTTP caching 
 should be a fundamental aspect of resource design.
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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.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T123500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T114500
DTSTAMP:20090515T174956
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/6700
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-11:45--6700
SUMMARY:Rails: A Year of Innovation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Jason Seifer (Twiste
 dmind Inc). In this talk the Rails Envy guys will attempt to sum up a ye
 ar of Rails innovation in 45 minutes, covering 20 of the most useful, in
 genious, and innovative new developments.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090507T135000
DTSTAMP:20090515T175019
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7877
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-07-13:50--7877
SUMMARY:Orchestrating the Cloud
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Matt Wood (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute). Cl
 oud computing can help lift the burden of computationally heavy tasks su
 ch as encoding, indexing or scientific analysis. This talk aims to intro
 duce architectures for processing on elastic infrastructures, and how Ru
 by and Rails make it super simple to work at the petabyte scale, and bey
 ond. We'll illustrate with a real world example, building a full human g
 enome in the cloud, live!
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