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GoGaRuCo 2010 »

Created at: 08.07.2010 22:15, source: has_many :through, tagged: conference gogaruco

Hi readers, long time! I've been meaning to post but you know how things get with work and yoga and all that. Also, I've been kind of busy working on organizing Golden Gate RubyConf 2010 for a while. The great news is that we're on!

It took us longer than we wanted to find a venue good enough to do justice to such a great group of people, but we finally found an awesome spot. The conference will be at the UCSF Mission Bay conference center on September 17-18. Registration is now open! We'll have more room than last year but space is still finite, so don't delay. Early bird pricing is available through next week.

We've announced an initial group of speakers and have more on the way. Right now we're focusing on invited talks, but we may have some room for people to submit talk proposals - we'll pretty know soon and will let you know. Follow @gogaruco on Twitter for announcements and new speaker updates.

Just like last year it will be a single-track conference on a Friday and Saturday. Moving the conference to September means that we'll have great weather too. The venue is really top-notch with great facilities.

We did kind of spaz by doing the conference on Yom Kippur (what would my mother say?), and I'm sorry if that is a conflict for people who would like to be there. There are only so many weekends in a year and none of them are perfect...

Go check out the site for info and to register: http://gogaruco.com/

RubyConf 2009 Lightning Talks »

Created at: 20.11.2009 21:00, source: has_many :through, tagged: conference lightning talks rubyconf

Last night it was my great pleasure to host the Lightning Talks session at RubyConf 2009. We had an amazing series of 20 talks that took just over 2 hours. The tech gremlins seemed to be off drinking somewhere and none of the presentations failed.

Here's a list of all the speakers and links to their stuff.

Micah Martin: Limelight - http://limelight.8thlight.com
Dmitry Jemerov: RubyMine 2.0 - http://jetbrains.com/ruby
Luigi Montanez: Sunlight Labs - http://sunlightlabs.com
Alex Chaffee: Erector - http://erector.rubyforge.org
Steven Parkes: http://github.com/smparkes
Jeff Casimir: 4 Things I Love - http://github.com/jcasimir/things_i_love
Yasuko Ohba: Sub-resources - http://github.com/nay/sub_resources
Marc Chung: Parsley - http://github.com/fizx/parsley
Miss Ruby on Rails
Jugyo: g - http://github.com/jugyo/g
Will Emerson: Spree - http://www.spreecommerce.com
Josh Nichols: Sinatra dev tools - http://github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler/blob/sinatra-spike
Ben Brinkenhoff: Caliper, easy Ruby metrics - http://devver.net/caliper
Martyn Loughran: Noodler - http://github.com/mloughran/noodler
Gabriel Horner: Boson - http://github.com/cldwalker/boson
Eric Mill: http://ohnomymoney.com/
Tatsuhiro Ujihisa: Termtter - http://github.com/jugyo/termtter
Eric Hodel: FFMPEG - http://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb
Yoji Shidara: Buzztter - http://buzztter.com
Steven Haddox: Flickr4Twitter - http://flickr4twitter.com, http://github.com/stevenhaddox/tweetie_flickr

RubyConf Schedule »

Created at: 12.11.2009 21:05, source: has_many :through, tagged: conference rubyconf

The RubyConf 2009 schedule was just posted. As a public service, I have fixed it to be readable and to use, you know, hyperlinks and stuff. Enjoy.

http://hasmanythrough.com/rubyconf2009/schedule.html

(Apparently my planning for GoGaRuCo 2010 has me thinking it's 2010 already. Fixed the year. Sorry about that. Sigh.)

Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video »

Created at: 11.11.2009 20:00, source: Robby on Rails, tagged: Business Ruby on Rails PLANET ARGON Projects agile development clients presentation conference rubyonrails video

For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)

The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.

You can also view the slides.

Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist

Slides from my Rails Underground 2009 talk »

Created at: 24.07.2009 18:37, source: Robby on Rails, tagged: Business Ruby on Rails PLANET ARGON hosting rubyonrails agile conference deployment london talk feedback seo railsunder presentation analytics sem

Hello from London!

Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a few Rails-specific topics as well.

I’ll be sharing some posts in the coming week(s) that’ll expand on some of these topics as promised to the audience.

Launching Ruby on Rails projects: A checklist

View more documents from Robby Russell.

Since I covered a wide range of topics, I decided to share my slides online. They won’t provide as much context (as I’m not speaking as you’ll look at them), but they might hint at some of the topics that I covered. There was a guy video taping the talks… so I assume that a video of my talk will be posted online in the near future.

Until then… here are the slides