Personal schedule for Matt Jones
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Chad Pytel (thoughtbot, inc.),
Tammer Saleh (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(3.55, 40 ratings)
As experienced Rails consultants, and authors of the upcoming Rails AntiPatterns book, Chad Pytel and Tammer Saleh have seen their fair share of terrible code.
This workshop is best suited for developers already familiar with Ruby on Rails. Participants should bring their laptops, setup for Ruby on Rails development, and any code they wish to share.
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Dr. Nic Williams (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(2.83, 24 ratings)
What's the best way to prepare for a wonderful RailsConf 2010? There is
nothing better than meeting other open source hackers and learn their way.
This workshop will get you started in Open Source development and give
you a great chance to meet and bond with other Open Source developers
and give you a wonderful kick start into RailsConf and beyond.
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David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals)
Average rating:
(4.07, 127 ratings)
Keynote by David Heinemeier Hansson, 37signals.
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Michael Feathers (Obtiva, Working Effectively with Legacy Code)
Average rating:
(3.59, 112 ratings)
Keynote by Michael Feathers, Object Mentor.
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Elise Huard (Jabberwocky)
Average rating:
(3.40, 15 ratings)
We've all found ourselves in situations where we had to evaluate very quickly what the quality was of a Rails codebase. In some cases it's to evaluate an acquisition, in other cases to put an estimate on maintenance and evolution of an existing application.
My talk will describe how to smell out,in one day, hour by hour, whether there are any pain points,and where they are.
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John Nunemaker (OrderedList, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.80, 80 ratings)
"Don't repeat yourself." "Don't reinvent the wheel." Phrases like this are thrown around like crazy in the programming world, but one is missing. Repeat others. The best way to learn is to imitate those that are better than us.
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Moderated by:
Sean Schofield (Rails Dog)Panelists:
Michael Bryzek (Gilt Groupe),
Cody Fauser (Shopify),
Nathaniel Talbott (Spreedly, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.55, 42 ratings)
As Rails becomes more mainstream, businesses are now taking a second look at Rails for their e-commerce needs. Join our panel of experts as we discuss a range of possible solutions. We will discuss the merits of using an existing Framework (Spree), using third party services (Shopify and Spreedly) or building your own (Gilt.)
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Pat Maddox (Goldstar Events)
Average rating:
(3.14, 49 ratings)
Over the last 5 years, Rails apps have increased in size, complexity, and value provided to businesses. A few years back all we had to do was customize some generated code and sprinkle on a bit of AJAX, and the rapid pace of development meant that we could launch products and add features way faster than our competitors could.
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Kyle Banker (10gen)
Average rating:
(4.21, 73 ratings)
We'd mastered it all: join tables, polymorphic associations, nested sets, all neatly normalized. Then we awoke to the haze of NoSQL, where the data-modeling rules had changed. This presentation attempts to correct that by exploring document-oriented modeling with MongoDB. We'll cover common design patterns and contrast strategies for modeling product data in an RDBMS and a document store.
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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.69, 71 ratings)
Keynote by Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard Inc.
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Average rating:
(4.50, 36 ratings)
We'll be handing out several trophies to people we believe to be Ruby Heroes, and giving them the round of applause they deserve and might not get otherwise.
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Evan Phoenix (Engine Yard)
Average rating:
(2.98, 89 ratings)
Engine Yard was founded to help deploy, manage and scale Ruby and Rails applications. We built our company with a focus on supporting and cultivating the Ruby and Rails community and ecosystem. Join us as we walk through some open source work we've dedicated our time to, including Rails, Ruby, Rubinius and JRuby. We'll also discuss community efforts we're excited to be involved with.
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Obie Fernandez (InfoQ),
Durran Jordan (Hashrocket)
Average rating:
(3.63, 86 ratings)
Hashrocket recently built and deployed a massive patient record system for a pharmaceutical company in less than six months. We discuss how we dramatically accelerated our normal Rails application development using MongoDB and applying the philosphies of "less SQL".
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Rich Kilmer (LivingSocial)
Average rating:
(3.64, 50 ratings)
Discuss the implementation of a distributed solution for authentication and authorization when you need to break things up into logical RESTful services and yet have a central way to manage what your users can do. This is a more technical presentation of what I showed in the Keynote for the LA RubyConf.
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Sam Ruby (IBM)
Average rating:
(2.84, 19 ratings)
What started out as regression tests for the scenarios contained in a book has turned out to be an invaluable tool for reducing regressions in Rails itself and verifying that Rails runs on new versions of Ruby. The results of this work may be of use to others that wish to document scenarios involving Rails and/or system testing their own applications.
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Flip Sasser (Intridea, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.24, 46 ratings)
With such a vibrant and emerging economy of new persistence options for web applications it can be diffcult to know when and how to use them in your applications. Worse yet, you don't want to lose mountains of existing infrastructure and support for RDBMS systems in Rails. What's a developer to do? Blend it! Learn new techniques for using multiple persistence engines in a single application.
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Sarah Mei (Pivotal Labs)
Average rating:
(2.56, 34 ratings)
SQL databases are awesome at certain problems. But most Rails apps encounter data challenges that make traditional databases look seriously puny. So...is SQL over? In this talk, we'll dig into the guts of the relational model, look at the problems SQL doesn't solve well, and - crucially - understand why. Then we'll answer the million-dollar question: is NoSQL the only alternative?
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Derek Sivers (CD Baby)
Average rating:
(3.77, 61 ratings)
Keynote by Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby.
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Robert Martin (Object Mentor Inc)
Average rating:
(4.44, 102 ratings)
Up till now, computer hardware technology has been advancing by orders of magnitude every year; has software technology been keeping up? Now that headlong advance of hardware shows signs of slowing. Moore's law may be dead. Does that mean that software technology will have to pick up the slack? Can it? Is Ruby/Rails a hint of the future solution? If not, what is?
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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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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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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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Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia)
Average rating:
(4.65, 60 ratings)
Keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk.
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