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Gregg Pollack

Gregg Pollack
Laser-Tentacle Reinforcement Specialist, Envy Labs

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Gregg Pollack works at Envy Labs, where he produces a podcast, creates educational screencasts, and develops websites with Rails. He also runs the Ruby Hero Awards, organizes the Orlando Ruby Users Group, and is also sometimes known as the Ruby on Rails guy in the “Rails vs” commercials or the “C” in MVC.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 05/16/2011
Rails for Zombies (AKA Intro to Rails - Part 1)
Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom I
Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Eric Allam (Envy Labs), Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs), Carlos Souza (Envy Labs), Jacob Swanner (Envy Labs), Tyler Hunt (Envy Labs)
Average rating: ****.
(4.54, 13 ratings)
Do you need to start learning Ruby on Rails? In this morning tutorial the Envy Labs team will lead you through all five labs of their Rails for Zombies course. Unlike other tutorials, all you need to start coding Rails is a laptop with Wi-Fi and a modern browser. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 05/16/2011
Rails Best Practices
Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom III
Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Andrew Smith (Envy Labs), Thomas Meeks (Envy Labs), Dray Lacy (Envy Labs), Christopher Green (Envy Labs), Mark Kendall (Envy Labs)
Average rating: ****.
(4.46, 63 ratings)
Although Rails contains many web framework best practices, there are still plenty of ways to create horrible code. Fortunately, as the community has matured many new techniques have been discovered which can help keep Rails apps maintainable. In this 5 part lab we will walk through the most common of these best practices and get some hands on experience refactoring Rails. Read more.
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