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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs),
Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs),
Thomas Meeks (Envy Labs),
Jacob Swanner (Envy Labs)
Average rating:
(4.59, 108 ratings)
For this ropes course, members of the Envy Labs team will march you through the core concepts of Rails 3 while taking you through the development of a new Rails application. At the end of this course you will come away with a better understanding what’s new in Rails 3, and equally as important, what has changed since Rails 2.
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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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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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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.69, 71 ratings)
Keynote by Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard Inc.
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Jess Martin (Relevance, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.39, 31 ratings)
You're a developer. You write code. But your users don't see your
code. They only see the user interface. We're going to have a
conversation about how to think through your product's user interface.
We'll focus on a few analytical techniques you can use to analyze your
user interface and to communicate with a designer.
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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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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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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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Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia)
Average rating:
(4.65, 60 ratings)
Keynote by Gary Vaynerchuk.
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