Personal schedule for Chris Schumann
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Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC)
Average rating:
(3.72, 18 ratings)
Git is a wonderful distributed source control tool with a reputation for being hard to learn. This workshop will sidestep the hard to learn reputation by explaining git in an easy to learn, bottom-up approach; and then reinforcing that lesson by immersing the attendee into a number of practical hands-on applications of git.
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Marty Haught (Haught Codeworks)
Average rating:
(2.83, 23 ratings)
Many tenets of agile development have been present in the Rails
ecosystem from the beginning. There has been a evolution of practices
stemming from Lean principles in the software world, especially in the
realm of startups. This tutorial will focus on these techniques and
approaches and how they can be applied to the Rails stack to make your
development more focused and efficient.
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Glenn Vanderburg (LivingSocial)
Average rating:
(4.54, 50 ratings)
Software engineering as it's taught in universities simply doesn't work. It doesn't
produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn't produce them for low cost.
Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn't produce systems at all.
That's odd, because in every other field, the term "engineering" is reserved for
methods that work.
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Michael Buffington (Grasshopper Labs)
Average rating:
(3.62, 32 ratings)
If you really love or hate aerodynamics, rainbow trout, the human
brain and arms, comfortable socks, and/or Easter Island then attending
this talk might be a really enjoyable or loathsome experience. Michael
may or may not talk about how seemingly random or even truly random
topics are important or unimportant for the fertile minds of creative
Rails developers.
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Anthony Eden (DNSimple)
Average rating:
(3.37, 46 ratings)
It is inevitable that at some point in your career as a developer you will inherit code developed by others. Trying to understand code developed by someone else can often lead to stress and frustration, but it doesn't have to. This talk will provide you with tools and techniques to help understand and begin working with code from other developers quickly and easily.
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Oren Teich (Heroku),
Morten Bagai (Heroku)
Average rating:
(4.00, 13 ratings)
Find out how some of Heroku's top customers manage and deploy their applications. This presentation will dive into the technical details of add-ons, features and tricks our customers use to build sites for enterprise, facebook, iphone and more.
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Rick Bradley (OG Consulting)
Average rating:
(4.11, 18 ratings)
See real-world deep refactorings of production Rails apps under heavy active development. Focused tests are introduced to mission-critical applications having serious structural and design problems. We stop code decay, refactor under heavy testing, and converge to a clean well-tested implementation of a coherent domain design. Rescue missions in 45 minutes.
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Evan Phoenix (Engine Yard),
Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc)
Average rating:
(3.82, 67 ratings)
Back by popular demand, Evan and Charlie are going to talk about all
those nooks and crannies of Ruby you never knew existed. Focused
mainly on traps to avoid, they'll discuss a number of features in Ruby
1.8 and 1.9 and how they actually work, including all the gory
details. As a special bonus offer, the duo will briefly discuss
performance related pitfalls and how they can be avoided.
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Aaron Patterson (AT&T Interactive)
Average rating:
(4.11, 57 ratings)
We all know that Rails is made of Tasty Burgers, but what are those Tasty
Burgers made from? We're going to take a look inside the bun to discover
what makes up Rails, how the software gets to our plate, and how we can
improve it. We'll discuss some of the lower level libraries used to make up
Rails, and what makes them tick. Better Ingredients, Better Burgers.
Guaranteed.
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John Athayde (LivingSocial)
Average rating:
(3.80, 102 ratings)
Views are still the wild west of the web application area. A sea of DIV after DIV with tables tossed in for non-tabular data creates a sea of messy code that hurts the product both in performance and bandwidth. We'll look at the common pitfalls of view code, how to refactor that code into lean, semantic HTML, CSS and presnters that is not only pretty, but also correct and proper.
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Joseph Wilk (Songkick.com)
Average rating:
(4.07, 44 ratings)
Tools like Cucumber encourage driving new pieces of functionality through tests which cut through the entire Rails web stack, including the database. As a consequence these Acceptance tests can be quite slow. This leaves us in a dichotomy, you want to keep adding new features to your product and you want to maintain rapid test feedback. Somethings got to give. So how do we scale Acceptance tests?
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Blythe Dunham (Spongecell)
Average rating:
(1.59, 39 ratings)
Web site metrics are a must have as they provide valuable business insight. This discussion describes how to best leverage 3rd party tools such as google, and when, how, and what to track within your own rails application.
2 large rails implementations are presented as case studies:
* Tracking over 2.5 mil hits/hr via nginx logs
* Leveraging Mongodb in the clouds to store iphone request info
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Tony Pitale (Viget Labs)
Average rating:
(2.91, 33 ratings)
User behavior tracking can be difficult. If done properly, it can be invaluable in helping to shape the evolution of your product. Done poorly, and it can lead to expensive mistakes. Learn the tools and techniques that will help you make the right choices.
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Sarah Allen (Mightyverse)
Average rating:
(3.09, 34 ratings)
Search is a common feature on every website, but there isn't a single common solution, nor are there easy, comparable datapoints between the options. As a Rails developer, how do you choose the right solution? This talk will review Solr/Lucene, Sphinx and Postgres' new search features, then discuss which solutions are appropriate for which problems.
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Ian McFarland (Pivotal Labs, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.59, 37 ratings)
In this presentation we'll share our insights into how to develop agile, robust, industrial strength code reliably and repeatably, through the application of our own flavor of XP-style agile development. We've been doing Agile for over 10 years, and Rails for over 4. We've delivered over 80 Rails apps to customers, and have learned a thing or two about how to do that sustainably and well.
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Jonathan Palley (Idapted Ltd.),
Lei Guo (Idapted Ltd)
Average rating:
(4.04, 70 ratings)
This talk shares the experience, process and best practices of splitting a single monolithic rails application into many smaller independently-developable but integrated system of applications. The result is lower development time, greater stability and scalability and higher developer productivity.
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Mikel Lindsaar (RubyX)
Average rating:
(4.67, 9 ratings)
Itch scratching is at the core of any hacker.
But how does it apply in the real world? This talk goes over the steps I took from scratching an itch by patching the TMail library, taking over maintenance of it, upgrading ActionMailer 2.x, writing the Mail library and then finally helping rewrite the ActionMailer API for Rails 3.0
I'll go over the tools I used, and how it all worked.
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