Personal schedule for Nicholas Henry
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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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Jeremy McAnally (Arcturo)
Average rating:
(1.76, 112 ratings)
This workshop will tour through a number of advanced, in-depth topics on Rails 3. We'll look take a tour of many of the new additions to Rails 3, talk about how to exploit Rails' new focus on Rack to your advantage, dig around in the source to really understand how many of the pieces work, and take a look at how to bring some common, advanced patterns used in Rails 2.x into the world of Rails 3.
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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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Moderated by:
Josh Owens (Four Bean Soup)Panelists:
Joe Ferris (thoughtbot, inc),
Jeremy Kemper (37signals),
Marcel Molina (Twitter),
Rick Olson (GitHub),
Derek Willis (The New York Times)
Average rating:
(2.39, 139 ratings)
Ever wanted to build an API with Rails? Feel daunted? Google doesn't help much? Come talk to the developers of some of the biggest APIs built in Rails. Developers from Twitter, Github, ThoughtBot, NY Times, and 37signals will talk about the decisions and challenges they have faced in building their APIs. Topics will include; Authentication, Formats, Scaling, Security, Versioning, & Communication.
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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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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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Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.69, 71 ratings)
Keynote by Yehuda Katz, Engine Yard Inc.
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Average rating:
(4.60, 15 ratings)
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic online and onsite and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(3.74, 97 ratings)
Most people think that freedom engenders creativity, but the opposite is true. But too much constraint makes it hard to get stuff done. It turns out that you need just enough constraint, and figuring out what gives you that perfect level is harder than you think. This keynote investigates the relationship between creativity and constraint as it applies to software development in the modern world.
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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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Chris Wanstrath (GitHub)
Average rating:
(3.96, 72 ratings)
Redis is fast. Rails is good. Resque is cheap. It's a match made in heaven.
Learn how to use Resque with Rails, how GitHub processes background jobs, and why Redis makes it blissful.
We'll compare Resque to other solutions, discuss design patterns, and review the plugins that add infrastructure.
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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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James Golick (Protose Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.24, 45 ratings)
Hype is everywhere. Whether it's the latest NoSQL db that's going to magically scale your app, or the newest best practice that's going to prevent you from writing bad code.
As early adopters, we've tried a lot of this stuff. We've even put it in to production under real load. In this talk, I'll tell you what worked and what didn't. There are no sacred cows - not even rails.
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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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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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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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Matthew Deiters (inc)
Average rating:
(4.35, 52 ratings)
From friend suggestions in Facebook to product recommendations on Amazon the industry is moving to more intelligent systems. We'll discuss how to discover the relationships in your app and start personalizing the experience of your users. We'll discuss different design approaches to recommendations and how to leverage various libraries in novel ways in your rails application.
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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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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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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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