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David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson

37signals

David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He’s the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works with the open source community and design extraordinaires 37signals. Since its release in late July 2004, he’s also been leading the development of Ruby on Rails, a web application framework and environment for building real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups.

Sessions

Products and Services
Location: Pavilion 1
Obie Fernandez (Hashrocket), David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Lewis Cirne (New Relic, Inc.)
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. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom A-B
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Jeremy Kemper (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Rick Olson (ENTP), Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard Inc.), Joshua Peek (Consultant)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers. Read more.
News and Coverage
co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. O'Reilly
  • Engine Yard
  • Heroku
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Blue Box Group
  • New Relic

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