Are you pushing yourself with the right force, in the right direction, to achieve what you want, what makes you happy, what you're capable of?
Based on her experience of training for Ironman distance triathlons, Keavy will discuss the preparati...
A musical performance by Jim Weirich and Chad Fowler.
I've wrestled them with my bare hands; been trampled by them; chased a few for days on end until they surrend themselves to me. I once took a large male down with a ball of yarn and an ice-cream scooper.
Problems, are like buffalos. Finding one...
HTML Forms have made huge strides in recent years, with AJAX and HTML5. Unfortunately, our tools to make them haven't been keeping up. Since Forms have been talked to death many times before, I'll touch only briefly on the new stuff availabl...
While most Ruby developers are very familiar with testing their code, frontend and JavaScript-testing is still a new frontier for many. This talk will show you how to easily write and run JavaScript integration tests with Capybara and Cucumber, an...
Functional Languages are gaining in popularity from Lisp to F# to Clojure. Let's walk through the current functional-style offerings of Ruby, review what is available in fully functional languages, and look at where to go from here.
Programming is writing. A programmer's job is to express abstract ideas in a specific language - just like the poet, the essayist, and the composer. But while writers and composers spend years improving their style, many programmers think style st...
Pioneering in the Wild West of software can be scary, not to mention deadly. How can you use this fear to best the lurking dangers out there?
Dr Nic Williams of Engine Yard leads a panel of Joe O'Brien, Sarah Mei, Evan Phoenix and Wayne Seguin on four controversial topics in the Ruby community.
In any reasonably long personal or professional timeline, periodic spells of extreme self-doubt, boredom, and general dissatisfaction are a recurring theme. Philosophers and psychologists know these as existential or midlife crises, classic film b...
Location-based applications are everywhere, yet most modern Rubyists haven't ventured far beyond superimposing a few locations on a Google Map. In this talk, the Rubyist will learn about the many spatial programming possibilities within the Ruby l...
Somewhere down the line, sales got a bad wrap. People began to see it as a way of tricking others into consuming something they do not need or want. That is wrong. Sales is about identifying needs and finding solutions that fit both parties.
In...
Being successful in open source takes the right dash of hubris, patience, and pragmatism. Evan Phoenix will talk about how to run an open source project that can attract developers as well as users. We'll be discussing everything from how to pick ...
We all love Ruby, but it has its foibles, especially when dealing with issues like concurrency or I/O. Reia is a new language which serves up Erlang sandwiches on warm, crispy, delcious Ruby-flavored buns. Reia makes it easier to solve the kinds o...
Would you slay a buffalo with a spoon or pan for gold with a hammer? Let's explore how you pick the right tool for the job.
Ruboto is Ruby for Android devices. You can access the full Android API from Ruby, giving your scripts all the power of a native application. Even better, you can build and distribute packages that will run on any Android phone, even ones without ...
he wild and wooly days of crazy Ruby development are over. Everybody knows about Ruby, no one looks at you askance when you declare yourself a Ruby developer. Ruby is now one of the mainstream languages and all the major problems have been solved....
