Personal schedule for Christopher Galtenberg
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James Adam (Free Range)
Average rating:
(3.38, 69 ratings)
A no-nonsense guide to making the most of the newly-integrated "engines" functionality in Rails 2.3, from the guy who wrote the engines plugin itself.
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Kevin Barnes (OG Consulting)
Average rating:
(1.89, 47 ratings)
This talk explores why fixtures are mostly bad, what can be done to “fix” the unmanageable miscreant that fixtures have evolved into, and cross-examines the new breed of data generators.
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Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems)
Average rating:
(4.00, 5 ratings)
This session provides all the details on how GlassFish, and NetBeans provide a fun and robust development, deployment, and management platform for Rails applications – without pain. It talks about performance tuning tips, scalability guide, capistrano recipes, monitoring guidelines and much more - all without using Java code.
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Scott Chacon (GitHub)
Average rating:
(4.26, 91 ratings)
Much of the Ruby and Rails 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 usage for the casual or intermediate Git user.
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Ninh Bui (Phusion),
Hongli Lai (Phusion)
Average rating:
(3.28, 60 ratings)
5 years after the initial release of Ruby on Rails, multiple large and
successful websites are powered by this innovative and still relatively
young framework. But word is still on the street that Ruby on Rails does
not scale. Is this true?
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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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John Woodell (Google, Inc.),
Ryan Brown (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.09, 11 ratings)
JRuby developers can now use the Rails or Merb frameworks to deploy applications to
Google App Engine. We will provide an overview of App Engine, show few demos,
provide some insight into using DataStore.
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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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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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Tony Hillerson (EffectiveUI)
Average rating:
(2.73, 15 ratings)
RubyAMF is a Rails plug-in that allows easy, fast integration between Flex apps and Rails using Adobe’s open format for transferring typed data to/from Flash apps. We’ll walk through building a Flex application powered by a Rails back-end service. You’ll see how to work with translation to native objects in both directions, working with hierarchical data and more advanced configuration options.
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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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Matt Wood (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
Average rating:
(4.00, 10 ratings)
Cloud computing can help lift the burden of computationally heavy tasks such as encoding, indexing or scientific analysis. This talk aims to introduce architectures for processing on elastic infrastructures, and how Ruby and Rails make it super simple to work at the petabyte scale, and beyond. We'll illustrate with a real world example, building a full human genome in the cloud, live!
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