The presentation file for Toronto Ruby on Rails Project Night.

1. LearnHub.com
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2. •Wesley Moxam
• Carsten Nielsen
• Libin Pan
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3. RailsConf 2008
05.29 - 06.01
Portland, Oregon
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9. 1800+
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536409125/in/set-72157605325511779/
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10. Expo Hall
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536649439/in/set-72157605325511779/
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11. Keynote(s)
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12. Chad Fowler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536611599/in/set-72157605325511779/
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13. Great Software
• Make People Happy
• Obsess over Aesthetics
• Observe the Culture
Code
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZrOOuWjhOFQ
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536611727/in/set-72157605325511779/
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14. Ruby Heroes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wayemoyce/2545946378/
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15. • Evan Weaver - mongrel
• Tom Copeland - RubyForge
• James Edward Gray II - TextMate Book
• Ilya Grigorik - igvita.com
• Yehuda Katz - Merb & JQuery
• Ryan Bates - Railscasts
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16. • The Great Surplus
• Sleep More
• Read Paper
• Share
• 4 day work week
http://www.vimeo.com/1096456?pg=embed&sec=1096456
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2537416435/in/set-72157605325511779/
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17. Jeremy Kemper - Rails 2.1
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2539878870/in/set-72157605325511779/
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18. Kent Beck
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2540065485/in/set-72157605325511779/
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19. Rails Core Team
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2546018742/in/set-72157605325511779/
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20. Tutorials - May 29
• Refactoring • Contribute to Open
Source project
• Meta-programming
• Testing Tricks
• Hobo
• Design for Developers
• CI
• AIR
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21. Sessions
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23. Highlights
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24. Entrepreneurs on Rails
• What you need
• Before you start (Why, Goal, Cash)
• Brand
• Marketing
• Make it Work
• Raising Money
• Getting Out
Dan Benjamin @ Rails Machine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/2536611979/in/set-72157605325511779/
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25. Merb/DataMapper - Yehuda Katz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyrosdick/505443653/
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26. Ruby that scales™
http://ruby.gemstone.com/
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27. GitHub - Chris Wanstrath
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayvinly/2547662828/
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28. Assembling Pages Last
Aaron Batalion @ LivingSocial
• ESI - Edge Side Includes
• Edge Caching
• FragmentFu
• From mongrel-esi to Akamai
• Pros & Cons
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29. Asynchronous Processing
Jonathan Dahl @ RailSpikes
• Why • How
• Time • General Purpose - BJ
• Resource • Distributed Process - SQS
• Trigger • Time-Scheduled - cron
• Speed + Scalability - Starling/
Workling
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30. Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of Testing
Dan Manges @ ThoughtWorks & zak
• Short Build times
• No database
• Model Factory
• Tests in Parallel
• Maintainable
• Comprehensive Coverage
http://www.dcmanges.com/blog/railsconf-08-slides-for-testing-talk
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31. Scaling Ruby from the Inside Out
Ezra Zygmuntowicz @ Engine Yard
• Cloud Computing
• SSH doesn’t scale
• Vertebra
• XMPP
• Ejabberd
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32. Best Practice Refactoring
Chad Pytel @ ThoughtBot
• Moving code from controller to models
• No UI to Add == No Model
• composed_of
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33. Podcast & Screencast
• Rails Envy - Gregg Pollack
• Railscasts - Ryan Bates
• Peepcode - Geoffrey Grosenbach
• Learning Rails - Christopher Haupt /
Michael Slater
• Pragmatic Studio - Mike Clark
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34. More
• Phusion Pasenger
• Nginx
• Git Talk
• Facebook on Rails
• RSpec Story Runner
• Design Patterns
• Yellowpage.com rewriting
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35. Panels
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36. Lighting Talks
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37. • Shared Copy.com
• Pastie
• RailsBrain
• Method Trails
• iPhone on Rails
http://www.urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2008/06/railsconf-2008-lightning-talks.html
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38. Birds of a Feather
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39. Events
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40. Videos
http://LearnHub.com/
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41. What’s next?
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43. Review
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44. • The Good
• The Bad
• YMMV
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45. Miscellaneous
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60. • http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/
content/home
• http://www.rubyinside.com/railsconf-2008-
round-up-910.html
• http://Rails.LearnHub.com
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