I will be attending RubyConf in Orlando in November. I’m looking forward to it. I won’t be able to stay for the third day, but below are the classes I currently plan to attend on Thursday and Friday. Contact me if you are planning to go too!
Thursday
- 9:00 – 10:15
- Keynote
- 10:25 – 11:05
- Scaling Ruby by Gregg Pollack
- 11:15 – 12:00
- No class for me. Take a break. Probably tired from driving in early. Explore the grounds.
- Lunch
- 1:15 – 2:00
- JRuby: What, Why, How…Try It Now
- 2:10 – 2:55
- Recovering from Enterprise: how to embrace Ruby’s idioms and say goodbye to bad habits, by Jamis Buck
- 3:05 – 3:50
- Unfactoring From Patterns: Job Security Through Code Obscurity, by Rein Henrichs
- Break
- 4:20 – 5:05
- Better Hacking With Training Wheels, by Joe Martinez
- 5:15 – 6:00
- NeverBlock, trivial non-blocking IO for Ruby, by Mohammad A. Ali
- Break
- Lightning Talks?
Friday
- 9:30 – 10:15
- Ruby 1.9: What to Expect, by Sam Ruby
- 10:25 – 11:05
- All I Really Need to Know* I Learned by Writing My Own Web Framework, by Ben Scofield
- 11:15 – 12:00
- Coding for Failure: All you need to know for building rock solid applications in 45 minutes, by Tammer Saleh
- Lunch
- 1:15 – 2:00
- What Every Rubyist Should Know About Threads, by Jim Weirich
- 2:10 – 2:55
- Using Metrics to Take a Hard Look at Your Code, by Jake Scruggs
- 3:05 – 3:50
- Ruby Heavy-Lifting: Lazy load it, Event it, Defer it, and then Optimize it, by Ilya Grigorik
- Break
- 4:20 – 5:05
- Components are not a dirty word: modeling your Rails interface with stateful objects, by Mike Pence
- 5:15 – 6:00
- Ruby Kata and Sparring, by Micah Martin
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