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Since we've seen the ActiveModel Extravaganza, it is now time for the, "The ActiveSupport Three - It is finally getting interesting." In this spectacle, Bryan Liles will highlight some of the more interesting features of ActiveSupport 3, while sho...

NinjaScript is a JS framework, built on jQuery with two principles in mind. #1: Enriching your website with JS behaviors should be as easy as specifying CSS styles. #2: Making your site degrade gracefully without JS shouldn't take any extra work....

Conceived in the throes of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program, the Ruby on Rails Tutorial project was designed to "solve my money problem" without the roller-coaster ride of a Silicon Valley startup. This talk tells the resulting tale, includin...

"Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand" said Stevie Wonder. That sounds a lot like programming! The parallels between music and software development are striking, and understanding how they intersect can teach us a lot ...

Want to run Ubuntu on your OS/X or Windows machine? Recreate any production environment? Snapshots? All from the command line?

Virtualization technology is beginning to revolutionize development practices, just as it did with server infrastruct...

"Then it starts to scan the computer and transmit bits of information every time he clicks the mouse while he's surfing. After a while, [...] we've accumulated a complete mirror image of the content of his hard drive [...]. And then it's time for ...

Lisp is a programming language which allows you to manipulate its abstract syntax tree directly. The popular quote about every other language being a partial implementation of Lisp is not just snark; all programming languages use an abstract synta...

APIs are becoming ubiquitous, but they are really hard to design well. In this talk, we'll discuss how to design and implement an API that isn't just functional, but makes people stand up and cheer. We'll also cover tips for integrating with other...

Twitter is one of the largest companies in the world running Ruby, and you can tell by its agile culture: fast, iterative development that finds a balance between people and process.

This presentation starts with a high level overview of Twitte...

I’ve sat through years and years of bad slides and bad presentations. Often times the speaker and/or the content of the presentation is totally awesome, but the slides are horrible. Bad slides are bad. Bad slides bore, distract and confuse your ...

Developing a Language