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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:20090509T005034
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7763
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-04-08:30--7763
SUMMARY:Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ). Few comple
 ted Rails apps are architecturally simple. As soon as you grow, you find
  yourself using multiple subsystems and machines to scale, creating new 
 headaches in configuration management. Help is at hand! This tutorial in
 troduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integ
 ration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running c
 ommands.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T101500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T091500
DTSTAMP:20090528T221558
LOCATION:Ballroom A-B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9035
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-09:15--9035
SUMMARY:Rails 3 and the Real Secret to High Productivity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals). Keynote b
 y David Heinemeier Hansson.
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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:20090807T201430
LOCATION:Pavilion 9 - 10
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/7073
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-11:45--7073
SUMMARY:UI Fundamentals for Programmers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ryan Singer (37signals). Ryan will explain the 
 key concepts you should understand to design and implement UI for your a
 pps. He'll cover screen-level details like language and visual technique
 s as well as implementation issues like modeling, markup, and view code.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090505T135000
DTSTAMP:20090528T222026
LOCATION:Pavilion 2 - 3
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/9250
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-05-13:50--9250
SUMMARY:Writing Modular Applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC). Many words of progr
 amming wisdom have been written to promote the idea of low coupling betw
 een modules. "Prefer delegation over inheritance", "The Law of Demeter" 
 are examples of these words of advice. To understand these issues, we wi
 ll look at the concept of "connascence" how it applies to creating modul
 ar Ruby programs.
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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: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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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: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.
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.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T144000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T135000
DTSTAMP:20090528T222207
LOCATION:Ballroom B
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8680
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-13:50--8680
SUMMARY:What Makes Ruby Go: An Implementation Primer
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc), Evan  Phoeni
 x (Engine Yard). A walkthrough of how common and popular Ruby features a
 re actually implemented, with a focus on how they work, why they behave 
 the way they do, and why they do or do not perfom well. If you'd like to
  better understand What Makes Ruby Go, this is the talk for you.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T154000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Pacific:20090506T145000
DTSTAMP:20090508T162417
LOCATION:Ballroom A
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/detail/8762
UID:http://railsconf.com/--s2009-05-06-14:50--8762
SUMMARY:Call into your Ruby code! Writing voice-enabled apps in Ruby wit
 h Adhearsion
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jay Phillips (Codemecca LLC). Every participant
  in this tutorial will get to use their own cell phone to call into code
  running on their laptop! Jay Phillips will be interactively showing how
  to build voice-enabled web applications using the open-source Adhearsio
 n telephony development framework. All you need is Ruby and RubyGems pre
 -installed.
END:VEVENT
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
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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.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
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: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.
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