Be profound. That was more or less our response to Jeremy for guidelines on the keynote. The title of his talk is Code as a Commons and most definitely meets the criteria.

Isn't it strange how with open source code, the more you give away, the ...

Hashrocket began as a small four person shop aiming to build products and get rich doing the same. Something happened along the way and they wound up with a small principled consultancy that works hard and plays harder. Listen in as Les and Jim sh...

You know that JRuby is Ruby for the JVM. But did you know you can deploy Ruby applications anywhere Java applications can go? Did you know that all the amazing profiling and debugging tools for the JVM work great with JRuby? Did you know that the ...

What is Sinatra? Ever wondered what a web framework would look like if someone created a domain-specific language for writing web applications? You could, say, strip it down to this:

myapp.rb

get '/' do 'Hello world!' end

No, you're n...

With over 400 million members, Facebook is the world's largest social network. In addition to the social networking aspect, Facebook frequently releases opens ups their APIs and releases plugins that enable developers to socialize their own produc...

There comes a point in every programming language's life, where the question of dependency management arises. That is, "if A requires B and B requires C, and C requires D, what happens when I install A."

Believe it or not, that's actually an ...

There's a good chance that you've already heard of the Sunlight Lab's and their mission of opening up government to make it more transparent, accountable and responsible.

With the explosion of interest around government transparency, developers...

A wise man once said that pretty much all code older than 4 weeks is legacy code. Although we hate the idea of wise men running around dropping one-liners, there is a lot of truth to the statement.

This talk will focus on solving difficult ref...

Trellis is a component-based, event-driven Web micro-framework that provides a DSL to describe web applications in terms of pages, components and events. It combines the best features of desktop application development and modern MVC frameworks li...

Lightning Talk

Lightning Talk

Lightning Talk