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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.50, 78 ratings)
A 3 hour tutorial with Yehuda Katz of Engine Yard on jQuery on Rails.
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Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)
Average rating:
(3.21, 34 ratings)
Future web apps will be built on the client-server model: faster, more fluid, desktop-like apps that cannot be fully realized with traditional Rails techniques for building browser views. But Rails is the perfect server framework to integrate with SproutCore, an exciting new framework for building web browser clients. Students will build a full-fledged client-server app using both frameworks.
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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub),
Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub),
PJ Hyett (GitHub),
Scott Chacon (GitHub),
Jon Maddox (Fanzter inc.)
Average rating:
(3.63, 35 ratings)
The four full time GitHub employees talk about open source, community, building a business, and the future of social coding.
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Desi McAdam (Hashrocket Inc and DevChix Inc),
Sarah Mei (Pivotal Labs),
Lori Olson (The WNDX Group Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.50, 18 ratings)
Meet some of the women from the Rails community. Hear about their
experiences and what they have to say about how to bring more female
programmers into our already amazing community, as well as how to get
them more involved and active in it once they're here.
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Larry Karnowski (Relevance, Inc.),
Jason Rudolph (Relevance, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.14, 69 ratings)
Learn how to enjoy the benefits of test-driven development 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 Smoke. The tools and approach are library-agnostic; they work well with jQuery, Prototype, and others.
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Davis W. Frank (Pivotal Labs)
Average rating:
(3.77, 40 ratings)
What's next after reading 'Extreme Programming Explained'? Are you suddenly now an Agile Developer? Likely not - you don't become Agile overnight. It's more of a journey to change how you think and work. Learn by example with tips and tricks from someone who's made that journey and is happier and more productive because of it.
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ)
Average rating:
(4.51, 43 ratings)
Obie reveals secrets of survival in the Rails consultancy and contracting business, based on his real-life experience as founder and CEO of Hashrocket.
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs)
Average rating:
(4.11, 28 ratings)
We'll be handing out several trophies to people we believe to be Ruby Heroes, and giving them the round of applause they deserve and might not get otherwise.
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Timothy Ferriss (The 4-hour Workweek)
Average rating:
(1.80, 87 ratings)
Keynote by Tim Ferriss, author of the Four Hour Work-Week.
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Michael Bleigh (Intridea)
Average rating:
(4.31, 16 ratings)
Twitter is a bustling universe full of opportunities to create crazy, useful and crazy useful applications. Get a kick start to creating Twitter applications in Rails using TwitterAuth, the Twitter authentication stack for Rails.
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Jake Scruggs (Backstop Solutions)
Average rating:
(4.31, 35 ratings)
How can you make sure that your beautiful Rails code doesn't degrade over time as more people join a project and deadlines loom? Well, there are tools to measure test coverage, code complexity, churn, bad practices, duplication, and code smell. And all of these various open source projects have been mashed together in metric_fu - a Ruby gem that makes measuring the quality of your code easy.
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Matt Aimonetti (m|a agile consulting)
Average rating:
(3.55, 60 ratings)
Rails3 is 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 components, when and why to use them by looking at concrete examples.
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ),
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Tobias Lütke (Shopify),
Lewis Cirne (New Relic, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.91, 33 ratings)
Meet 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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Alexander Dymo (Pluron, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.66, 70 ratings)
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 processes and tools. Special topic: optimizing for deployment on dedicated, VPS and shared hosting.
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Nick Plante (Zerosum Labs),
Joe Fiorini (Within3),
Ben Scofield (Heroku),
Chris Saylor (Todobebé),
James Golick (Protose Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.70, 30 ratings)
The Rails Rumble is a 48-hour innovation competition in which teams of up to four developers embrace their environmental constraints to create a number of compelling microapps with Ruby and Rails. In this panel 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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Robert Martin (Object Mentor Inc)
Average rating:
(4.94, 81 ratings)
Keynote by Bob Martin, Object Mentor, Inc.
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Jeff Dean (Pivotal Labs)
Average rating:
(4.00, 14 ratings)
Erector is a pure ruby Builder-like view framework that you can use instead of ERB, inspired by Markaby. In Erector all views are objects, not template files, which allows the full power of object-oriented programming (inheritance, modular decomposition, encapsulation) in views. Among other benefits, Erector allows for inherited layouts and auto-closing tags.
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Matthew Deiters (inc)
Average rating:
(4.55, 40 ratings)
Rails has excellent caching strategies for the server side but did you know typically 80% of a responses time is on network communication? This will be an exploration of all the dirty details of caching your app's personal bits in the client browser. We'll look at what Rails provides and what you can additionally do to reduce response times and load on your application with little effort.
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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs),
Jason Seifer (Twistedmind Inc)
Average rating:
(4.36, 39 ratings)
In this talk the Rails Envy guys will attempt to sum up a year of Rails innovation in 45 minutes, covering 20 of the most useful, ingenious, and innovative new developments.
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Blythe Dunham (Spongecell)
Average rating:
(3.81, 26 ratings)
With the influx of social networking and viral marketing web sites, SMS messaging has become an important part of many web applications. From choosing a gateway provider to parsing messages to sending bulk SMS messages, this session details how to send and receive text messages from your Rails application.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals),
Jeremy Kemper (37signals),
Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited),
Rick Olson (GitHub),
Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Joshua Peek (Consultant)
Average rating:
(3.59, 39 ratings)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers.
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