Personal schedule for Steven Haddox
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David Chelimsky (DRW Trading),
Aslak Hellesøy (Bekk Consulting AS)
Average rating:
(3.75, 44 ratings)
Cucumber is all the rage these days, but many developers struggle to
understand how and when to use it. It is designed to be an Acceptance
Testing tool in the context of BDD, but that explanation tends to
bring up even more questions.
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Mike Clark (The Pragmatic Studio)
Average rating:
(4.13, 52 ratings)
I find myself living in two worlds these days. On one hand, I'm a web programmer building centralized applications mostly with Rails. On the other hand, I'm an iPhone/iPad developer creating mobile applications. My mobile apps live in my pocket and on my tablet; my web apps live on the 'net and in the cloud.
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Dmitry Jemerov (JetBrains)
Average rating:
(3.00, 13 ratings)
RubyMine is the latest contender for the most productive Rails
IDE. It features smart code analysis and code completion for your code,
tests and Web pages, powerful Rails-aware refactorings, a debugger and test
runner, built-in version control system integration, and much more. During
the talk, you'll see all of these features in action and learn how to use
them for your own projects.
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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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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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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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Wayne E. Seguin (Engine Yard, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.37, 43 ratings)
RVM is a command line tool which allows us to easily work with multiple ruby interpreters and sets of gems. We will explore the use of rvm to manage rubies for development needs like coding, continuous integration, quality assurance, and production on a per project basis.
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Nick Sieger (Engine Yard, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.21, 34 ratings)
JRuby has been running Rails for years, but the new Rails 3 release
presents enticing possibilities for Ruby development on the Java
platform. Even if you don't need to integrate with a Java codebase, JRuby
can offer you performance and deployment alternatives.
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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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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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Jesse Newland (Webster Clay)
Average rating:
(3.60, 20 ratings)
In order to ensure continuous application availability without dealing with antiquated monitoring tools a Rails developer should be able to assert the correct behavior of a production application from the outside in using familiar tools to protect revenue.
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Clinton N. Dreisbach (Relevance, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.91, 64 ratings)
Rails 3 is full of great new features for plugin authors: a stable API, more modularity, and the ability to hook into its generators. To add these features, though, Rails had to change a lot, breaking compatibility with many current plugins. We're going to walk together on what the major changes are and migrate some favorite plugins to be work well with and take advantage of Rails 3.
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Nick Quaranto (thoughtbot, inc.)
Average rating:
(4.50, 8 ratings)
Learn why Gemcutter won the great RubyGem hosting battle of 2009 and about the challenges the site faces in 2010 and beyond. Discover how instant code deployment with Gemcutter is changing the way not only Rubyists develop and release software, but other open source communities as well.
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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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