best of talks from rubyconf 2015

rubyconf-2015.md

Rubyconf 2015 Retro

Day 1

• Keynote: Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm by Carina C. Zona
  • must watch! with data comes responsible
• How to Stop Hating your Test Suite by Justin Searls
• Inside Ruby's VM: The TMI Edition. by Aaron Patterson
  • typical tenderlove talk about what he discovered when trying to build a AOT compiler
• Softly, softly typing by John Cinnamond
  • whats soft typing and how it could be used
• I Estimate this Talk will be 20 Minutes Long, Give or Take 10 Minutes by Noel Rappin
  • methods to better estimate big projects
  • use story points for complexity not time spend
• Keynote: Stupid Ideas for Many Computers by Aja Hammerly
  • fun things to do with ruby if you have way to much computing power at your disposal (using Google Cloud plattform)

Day 2

• JRuby 9000 Is Out; Now What? by Thomas Enebo and Charles Nutter
• Hacking Spacetime for a Successful Career by Brandon Hays
  • awesome talk about career paths
• How to Crash an Airplane by Nickolas Means
• Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time by Joe Mastey

Day 3

• How To Performance. by Eileen M. Uchitelle
• Building CLI Apps for Everyone. by Terence Lee
  • mruby-cli
• Keynote and Q&A: Matz
  • ruby 3x3

Also

Day 1

• String Theory and Time Travel: the humble text editor
  • Talks about history of Text Editors, and why one should try building one.

Day2

• Keynote: Leagues of sea and sky
  • Uses augmented reality during presentation
  • Amazing story telling
  • Talks about collaboration between people, why it is necessary and how Nasa is collaborating with Game developers to build 3D landscape of moon.
• Changing the Unchangale: the hows and whys of immutable data structures
  • If you are into data structures, ...

Day3

• How to make Music with Ruby
  • Nice beginners' intro to SonicPi