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2009 Videos

Keynote Videos

• David Heinemeier Hansson
  Rails 3 ...and the real secret to high productivity
  69:29
• Desi McAdam, Sarah Mei, Lori Olson
  Women in Rails
  62:16
• Robert Martin
  What Killed Smalltalk Could Kill Ruby, Too
  60:56

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• Railsconf 2009 - Tutorials Day
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2009 Presentation Files

• JRuby on Google App Engine  John Woodell, Ryan Brown
• JRuby on Google App Engine  John Woodell, Ryan Brown
• Modeling Workflow in Ruby and Rails   David Bock

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• Welcome to Ben Scofield - RailsConf Co-Chair
• RailsConf 2009 Gives Practical Tools for Success: Deeply Technical Sessions Fill Days Dedicated to Rails
• We need both engineers and artists in programming
• So how do we get more women into Rails?
• We need both engineers and artists in programming

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About RailsConf

RailsConf, co-produced by Ruby Central, Inc. and O'Reilly Media, Inc., is the largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. Through keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events, RailsConf is an interactive meeting ground for the most innovative and successful Rails experts and companies. The conference provides attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities.

RailsConf 2010 Features:

• Four entire days dedicated to Ruby on Rails
• A program designed around all levels of expertise from novice to intermediate to advanced
• The most innovative and successful Rails experts and companies showcased onstage
• The opportunity to find solutions to the problems those in the trenches are facing
• A forum for a wide variety of business people seeking to collaborate and solve similar problems
• A gathering place for the worldwide Rails community, including an important network of experts, alpha geeks, and innovators
• Hands-on and in-depth guides for learning how to best employ Rails in a variety of situations
• Ample opportunities for all participants to connect, contribute, and collaborate throughout the event
• The chance to hear the latest updates, get information, and meet some of the the Rails core development team

Who Attends RailsConf?

• Rails and other web developers (independent, startup, enterprise/corporate)
• Other open source developers seeking to expand their skill set
• IT managers tracking emerging technologies
• Tech-savvy entrepreneurs with business ideas looking to implement web-based start-ups quickly in order to assess their ideas' potential for success
• Users at every level: new, intermediate, advanced, expert
• Others interested in web technologies and strategic implementation

RailsConf Program Committee

Program Co-Chairs

Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world’s largest companies and most admired software developers. He loves to program computers and, as part of his role as CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in the Ruby language. He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including the recently released “The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development“.

Ben Scofield
Ben Scofield is the Technology Director for Viget Labs, where he has worked with a variety of companies to clarify strategies and build their web presences. He has been an active participant in the Ruby and Rails communities, contributing to open source projects, and speaking at various events. In addition, he has worked over the past year to bring together developers from different fields through a series of local events held around the country.

RailsConf Associate Chairs

David A. Black
David A. Black is a long-time Ruby and Rails programmer, author, and trainer. Active in the Ruby world since 2000, David is the author of "Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers" from Manning Publications. He has co-organized numerous Ruby/Rails conferences and spoken at conferences and Ruby/Rails users groups in the United States, Canada, and England. David is the chief author of Ruby's standard scanf library, and the author and maintainer of the official Ruby Change Request site.

Rich Kilmer
Rich Kilmer is the founder of Virginia-based software and services company InfoEther, Inc.. His background includes peer-to-peer software, wireless web, workflow, and pen computing. His current projects make production use of Ruby on several DARPA research projects. He is an active member of the Ruby development community working on Alph, FreeRIDE, RubyGems, RubyJDWP, Jabber4R, and hosts RubyForge.org.