I attended RailsConf in Baltimore, MD this year. It was especially exciting as we had just relocated to Baltimore 2 days earlier after a long drive from Minneapolis. Apart from the great sessions, I was able to meet some great people from the Ruby community like Ryan Bates and John Nunemaker.
Sunday: Lightning talks, great.
8 Steps to open source software development with Dr. Nic.: this was my second time seeing Dr. Nic, after the lightning talk Karaoke round Sunday night. He had good tips. We worked on a project by forking it and adding some development instructions.
- check GitHub issues
- ruby toolbox
- GitHub gem
- fork queue (check this and merge some forks in)
John Nunemaker
- just in time not just in case
- extraction vs. prediction
- Book recommendation: Refactoring, Ruby edition
Ilya Grigorik session
- Drivers, Ruby VM, Network
- ltrace, mysqlplus gem, Apache model, worker/forker model
- Ruby 1.9 Fibers (lightweight threads)
- Introduced his new high performance stack: Ruby 1.9 + Rails 3 + new stack
OAuth, OpenID, Google data APIs
- Chrome Webstore
- Google Apps marketplace (introduced March 2010)
- Twilio API voice functionality
- ClientLogin, AuthSub, OAuth
RVM session with Wayne Seguin
- ruby version manager, rvm answer, rvm question
Redis, Resque, Unicorn, Chris Wanstrath
- Set, SortedSet, Integer, List (commands operate on these data structures)
- Persistent (writes to disk)
- redis-cli
- Unicorn
- Resque
Semantic HTML, CSS, presenters session
- Zen coding
- alphabetize CSS properties
- toupee
- deadweight
- jammit
- startup (gem, alternative to scaffold, hat tip to nifty_generators)
- Dust Me selectors
- modernizr (plugin for IE compatibility)
Designers and developers working together session
- Person, purpose, priority
- Worksheets
- timeline
- why are you using it?
- Tip: design for mobile first, forces you to emphasize the most important thing.
- Squint test
- software is for people
- speakinterface.com
Lightning talks
- jQuery client side validations, partido del internet (
, ), RSpec 2, Surveyor (surveys in your rails app), @igrigorik rewriting SQL on the fly, Michael Hartl , how to publish online (polytexnic, coming soon), mentor programming in Africa opportunities <https://bit.ly/RwandaOnRails>
User recommendations session
- social networking content, website analytics, predictive analysis
- graphs: relationship between data just as interesting
- Neo4J, neo4j.rb
- SNA: social network analysis, common queries built in
- Gremlin
- Eigenvector centrality
User data tracking session
- Google analytics, Garb, vanity (redis backed library for tracking)
- clicktale (heat map)
I enjoyed my first RailsConf and am looking forward to attending next year!
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