Personal schedule for Itamar Hassin
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Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating:
(2.36, 45 ratings)
Few completed 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 introduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running commands.
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Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC),
Joe O'Brien (EdgeCase, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.69, 52 ratings)
Everyone seems to be on the TDD/BDD bandwagon these days. We have gotten very good at the first two phases of the Red/Green/Refactor cycle. But in our push toward releasing new code and functionality, sometimes the Refactor phase gets the short end of the stick. Sadly, without refactoring, our code base can quickly become a nightmare of highly coupled, highly redundant code.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.11, 64 ratings)
Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson.
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David Chelimsky (DRW Trading)
Average rating:
(3.54, 80 ratings)
Used appropriately, mock objects are a powerful design tool that can lead to highly maintainable applications. Used in the wrong context, they can lead to painfully brittle test suites. Attendees will leave this session with more insight into mock objects, and a better handle on when it makes sense to use them.
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Ryan Singer (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.65, 106 ratings)
Ryan will explain the key concepts you should understand to design and implement UI for your apps. He'll cover screen-level details like language and visual techniques as well as implementation issues like modeling, markup, and view code.
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Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC)
Average rating:
(4.18, 60 ratings)
Many words of programming wisdom have been written to promote the idea of low coupling between modules. "Prefer delegation over inheritance", "The Law of Demeter" are examples of these words of advice. To understand these issues, we will look at the concept of "connascence" how it applies to creating modular Ruby programs.
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Noel Rappin (Obtiva)
Average rating:
(3.59, 37 ratings)
This talk explores what makes Test Driven Development really work by showing what happens where the process breaks down, focusing on rapid feedback as the key to asuccessful test-driven process. It also creates a vocabulary for talking about malformed test processes.
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Aslak Hellesøy (Bekk Consulting AS)
Average rating:
(3.91, 87 ratings)
Cucumber is a novel tool for Behaviour Driven Development. While early BDD tools like RSpec and Shoulda are geared towards programmers, classes and objects, Cucumber nicely fills the communication gap between customers, programmers and testers. This session will change how you approach requirements and testing of Rails applications.
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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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Location: Pavilion 1
Moderated by: Raimonds Simanovskis
Average rating:
(3.67, 3 ratings)
In this session practical experience of using Ruby on Rails on Oracle database will be discussed - Oracle enhanced adapter for ActiveRecord, limitations of ActiveRecord on Oracle, usage of PL/SQL stored procedures, different deployment platforms etc.
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Jon Crosby (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(3.55, 31 ratings)
The ability to release early and often becomes more important as your product scales. With Engine Yard Flex, we'll demonstrate creating 'One Button' deployments that scale. We'll demonstrate building a high-volume Rails cluster and show how easy it is to create a 'Clone of Production' to test at scale.
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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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Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard)
Average rating:
(4.24, 58 ratings)
In this talk we will explore the state of the art deployment options for large scale ruby web apps. Ruby web apps become ecosystems of many moving parts over time as they scale. We will outline a scalable architecture for configuring, building, maintaining and scaling the system as a cohesive whole. We will explore technologies like rabbitmq, chef, nanite and EY's new cloud hosting platform.
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Brian Hogan (NAPCS)
Average rating:
(3.64, 14 ratings)
Want to use Rails but are stuck with a nasty existing database? No problem. This session will show you how we managed to defeat an ugly beast of a system. You'll come away armed with some strategies you can employ to slay even the ugliest schemas.
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Erik Kastner (Etsy / Meta | ateM)
Average rating:
(2.88, 26 ratings)
Webhooks and Protocols (like Rack) are dumb. Like a socket, they work with anything that fits. We'll look at a whole class of problems that can be solved creatively with similar solutions. We will also look at some popular and successful real-world implementations.
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Paolo Negri (wooga.com)
Average rating:
(3.56, 57 ratings)
Discover how is possible to use parallel execution to batch process large amount of data, learn how to use queues to distribute workload and coordinate processes, increase the throughput on system with high latency. Have fun with EventMachine, AMQP, RabbitMQ and get rid of that every 5mins cronjob
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Bryan Helmkamp (weplay)
Average rating:
(4.44, 64 ratings)
Webrat, a Ruby DSL for interacting with Web applications, helps you write expressive, maintainable acceptance tests while sidestepping the issues traditionally associated with in-browser approaches like Selenium and Watir. We'll look at how you can use Webrat to develop a robust acceptance test suite to ensure your app stays working as you refactor mercilessly.
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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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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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Marty Andrews (Cogent Consulting Pty Ltd)
Average rating:
(4.46, 26 ratings)
Automated code quality tools are just starting to become popular in the Ruby and Rails world, even though they've been around a long time in the Java and .NET communities. Learn what the tools are, and how to use them to improve the consistency, testability and overall quality of your Ruby and Rails applications.
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David Bock (CodeSherpas)
Average rating:
(4.64, 25 ratings)
Workflow is a broad concept, and there are many different approaches to it. Our options in Ruby, especially declarative programming, make workflow applications fun to write, as well as very customizable without building huge "application engines". Come see how.
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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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