There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world who contribute to our community and rarely receive any recognition or payment for their work.
They create educational content, develop plugins & gems, contribute to open source projects, and even pu...
When he isn't ruining people's lives by writing software like phuby, enterprise, and neversaydie, Aaron can be found writing slightly more useful software like nokogiri. To keep up his Gameboy Lifestyle, Aaron spends his weekdays writing high qual...
The Fabulous Five are back! Last year we blew your mind. This year we will blow your heart. Join us as we put on our robes and wizard hats and enchant you with witty banter, amusing anecdotes and live Q&A. We'll cover topics ranging from "best rub...
What's a Ruby conference without lightning talks? And more importantly, who would want to find out?
Aaron Patterson is one of the nicest and funniest people that I (Shane) know. His handle on the internets is Tenderlove, his website is tenderlovemaking.com. He takes ridiculous photos of himself for his slides when he gives presentations at confe...
( to the tune of the Ultraman theme song:
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Ultraman.html )
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
Ruby programming guy
Tenderlove, Tenderlove
he's as awesome as _why
Seattle is his home
he's a Ru...
This session is a panel featuring some of today's brightest -- and most opinionated -- Ruby personalities, moderated by Rein Henrichs. Topics up for debate include coding style, various patterns and anti-patterns (depending on who you ask), the st...
In this talk, we'll take a look at different tips and tricks for writing speedy code in Ruby. We'll look at techniques for analyzing our Ruby code to find the slow spots, and ways we can speed up those hot spots. MRI's VM will be analyzed in order...
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?
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When attempting to solve our latest programming conundrum, we typically reach for the latest Ruby Gem that solves the problem for us. Oftentimes in our search for a solution, we neglect to look through some of the great libraries that come shipped...
