Personal schedule for Kimberly Bench
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Robert Dempsey (Atlantic Dominion Solutions)
Average rating:
(3.22, 23 ratings)
Many come to RailsConf without being in the Rails world for very long, and are looking for a simple introduction to get started. Robert Dempsey will take you through the A-Z introduction to Rails, from MVC to what's where in a Rails app.
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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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Jeremy Hinegardner (Collective Intellect)
Average rating:
(3.56, 9 ratings)
Sometimes the best solution is a standalone application that you can give to a client or customer to just drop on a machine and run. This talk will cover the Crate project and how it may be used to package your application, be it commandline, server, or web application.
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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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Ilya Grigorik (igvita.com)
Average rating:
(3.98, 45 ratings)
Let's build a mini-Google and compute the PageRank score for a 1-million page web – that's a non-trivial challenge! High performance computing may not be Ruby's strength, but we will investigate the available gems, tools, and algorithms which make this a tractable problem (spoiler: it's possible).
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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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Average rating:
(4.00, 10 ratings)
The Guitar Hero® community website (http://community.guitarhero.com) is one of the largest production RoR sites on the Internet with 600,000+ registered users. We will cover the process, programming, and infrastructure for the Guitar Hero® community site. You'll see how we've been able to integrate data from three largely different Guitar Hero® titles in a consumable fashion on the web.
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David A. Black (Ruby Central, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.85, 40 ratings)
An overview of important new features and changes in Ruby 1.9, including some compatibility issues to watch out for when you're migrating your 1.8 code.
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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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Average rating:
(4.00, 7 ratings)
Back by popular request, several Heroku team members will be on hand to walk you through the latest and greatest features of the Heroku platform and answer your questions.
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Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(3.00, 8 ratings)
Come see how well IronRuby runs Rails.
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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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Ryan Tomayko (GitHub)
Average rating:
(3.65, 43 ratings)
HTTP's basic caching mechanisms 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 system for classifying response cacheability, and argue that HTTP caching should be a fundamental aspect of resource design.
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Ed Laczynski (Zype),
Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs)
Average rating:
(2.79, 19 ratings)
A team of Rails developers, designers, and an enterprising media and licensing company embarked on a challenge: How to put every video in the 4Kids Entertainment content library online, streaming free to millions of kids (and children-at-heart). This session will review the challenges and approach of the development of the www.4kidstv.com website, that streams over 1 million videos per month.
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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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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.),
Carl Lerche (Strobe, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.48, 65 ratings)
One of the hottest new features in Rails 3 is the ability to embed a Rails application in another Rails application. This allows the development of components that range from user authentication to a fully featured forum. In this talk, Yehuda and Carl will give an in-depth tutorial by building a CMS, creating a gem out of it, and integrating it into another app.
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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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