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DESCRIPTION:Rich Hickey\, the author of <a href="http://clojure.org/">Clo
 jure</a> and designer of <a href="http://datomic.com/">Datomic</a>\, is 
 a software developer with over 20 years of experience in various domains
 . Rich has worked on scheduling systems\, broadcast automation\, audio a
 nalysis and fingerprinting\, database design\, yield management\, exit p
 oll systems\, and machine listening\, in a variety of languages.
SUMMARY:Keynote: Rich Hickey
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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SUMMARY:Lunch
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SUMMARY:Morning Break
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DESCRIPTION:When he isn't ruining people's lives by writing software like
  phuby\, enterprise\, and neversaydie\, Aaron can be found writing sligh
 tly more useful software like nokogiri. To keep up his Gameboy Lifestyle
 \, Aaron spends his weekdays writing high quality software for ATTi. Be 
 sure to catch him on Karaoke night\, where you can watch him sing his fa
 vorite smooth rock hits of the 70's and early 80's.
SUMMARY:Keynote: Aaron Patterson
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T090000
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to RailsConf 2012!
SUMMARY:Keynote: Welcome
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T123000
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:Lunch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T100000
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:Morning Break
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T123000
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:Lunch
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Break
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DESCRIPTION:David Heinemeier Hansson is a partner at <a href="http://37si
 gnals.com/">37signals</a>\, a privately-held Chicago-based company commi
 tted to building the best web-based tools possible with the least number
  of features necessary.\n\n37signals' products include Basecamp\, Highri
 se\, Backpack\, Campfire\, Ta-da List\, and Writeboard. 37signals' produ
 cts do less than the competition -- intentionally.\n\nHe is also the cre
 ator of Ruby on Rails.
SUMMARY:Keynote: David Heinemeier Hansson
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T153000
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Break
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DESCRIPTION:David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars. Previously\,
  David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. H
 e was the founder and CTO of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by
  <a href="http://www.zoll.com/">ZOLL Medical Corporation</a> (NASDAQ: <a
  href="http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/summaryquote.asp?symbol=ZOLL%60&amp\
 ;selected=ZOLL%60">ZOLL</a>) in 1999. You can read about it in <a href="
 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1420819917/sr=8-1/qid=1141840409/ref=sr
 _1_1/103-1943388-3567068?%5Fencoding=UTF8">No Vision\, All Drive</a> [Am
 azon]. David was also the founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.askdave
 taylor.com/keep_track_of_my_favorite_musicians.html">earFeeder.com</a>\,
  a music service which was sold to <a href="http://www.sonicswap.com/">S
 onicSwap.com</a> in 2006. He also had what he likes to think of as a "<a
  href="http://www.davidgcohen.com/2006/11/22/life-in-the-deadpool/">grac
 eful failure</a>" in between. \n\nDavid is a active startup advocate\, a
 dvisor\, board member\, and technology advisor who comments on these top
 ics on his blog at <a href="http://www.davidgcohen.com/">DavidGCohen.com
 </a>. He recently co-authored <a href="http://domorefasterbook.com/"><em
 >Do More Faster</em></a> with Brad Feld.  He is also very active at the 
 <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/">University of Colorado</a>\, serving 
 as a member of the Board of Advisors of the <a href="http://www.cs.color
 ado.edu/">Computer Science Department</a>\, the <a href="http://www.sili
 con-flatirons.org/people.php?id=EntrepreneurialBoardMember">Entrepreneur
 ial Advisory Board at Silicon Flatirons</a>\, and the Board of Advisors 
 of the <a href="http://leeds.colorado.edu/Deming/interior.aspx?id=548">D
 eming Center</a> Venture Fund. He is a member of the selection committee
  for <a href="http://www.vcintherockies.com/">Venture Capital in the Roc
 kies</a>\, and runs the Colorado chapter of the <a href="http://www.open
 angelforum.com/">Open Angel Forum</a>. His hobbies are technology\, soft
 ware/web startups\, business history\, and tennis. He is married to the 
 <a href="http://www.jilato.com/">coolest girl</a> he's ever met and has 
 three amazing kids who always seem to be teaching him something new.
SUMMARY:Keynote: David Cohen
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:Dinner
LOCATION:On Your Own
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SUMMARY:Morning Break
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T200000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T183000
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARY:Dinner
LOCATION:On Your Own
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T094500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T090000
DESCRIPTION:Ruby's favorite podcast comes to RailsConf! Join the Ruby Rog
 ues (David Brady\, James Edward Gray II\, Avdi Grimm\, Josh Susser\, and
  Charles Max Wood) for this live episode on What Rails Developers Should
  Care About.\n\nIf you've listened to the show\, you probably know that 
 the Rogues favor:\n\n* Good Object Oriented design\n* Patterns\n* Test D
 riven Development\n* The Law of Demeter and Tell\, Don't Ask\n* Open sou
 rce\n* Beautiful code\n* Pair programming\n* Code metrics\n* Scaling per
 formant code\n* and more\n\nSince this is a live episode\, we want to in
 teract with the audience. Each Rogue will give a brief introduction on w
 hat's important to him as a Rubyist on Rails\, then we will turn the ses
 sion over to your questions. We will take them over the Internet and/or 
 live\, before and during the show.\n\nAll that AND we promise to wear am
 azing hats!
SUMMARY:Keynote: Ruby Rogues Live
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DESCRIPTION:There are many people in the Ruby/Rails world who contribute 
 to our community and rarely receive any recognition or payment for their
  work.\n\nThey create educational content\, develop plugins & gems\, con
 tribute to open source projects\, and even put on events which help educ
 ate and make our lives as developers easier.\n\nRuby Heroes was created 
 to show some gratitude and give these people the recognition they deserv
 e. Hopefully the type of recognition that keeps them doing what they’r
 e doing\, and continuing to make our community stronger.
SUMMARY:Keynote: Ruby Hero Awards
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T090000
DESCRIPTION:BohConf is a hacking-centric event that will include communit
 y code drives featuring well-known OSS authors\, barcamp-style discussio
 ns\, and more.\n\nWe've got 2 rooms reserved for everybody's favorite un
 conference. No RailsConf badge required. Please [register on EventBrite]
 (http://bohconf-railsconf2012.eventbrite.com/).\n\nFollow [@bohconf](htt
 p://twitter.com/bohconf) for the latest news.
SUMMARY:BohConf
LOCATION:Hilton\, 4th Floor
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T090000
DESCRIPTION:BohConf is a hacking-centric event that will include communit
 y code drives featuring well-known OSS authors\, barcamp-style discussio
 ns\, and more.\n\nWe've got 2 rooms reserved for everybody's favorite un
 conference. No RailsConf badge required. Please [register on EventBrite]
 (http://bohconf-railsconf2012.eventbrite.com/).\n\nFollow [@bohconf](htt
 p://twitter.com/bohconf) for the latest news.
SUMMARY:BohConf
LOCATION:Hilton\, 4th Floor
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T160000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T090000
DESCRIPTION:BohConf is a hacking-centric event that will include communit
 y code drives featuring well-known OSS authors\, barcamp-style discussio
 ns\, and more.\n\nWe've got 2 rooms reserved for everybody's favorite un
 conference. No RailsConf badge required. Please [register on EventBrite]
 (http://bohconf-railsconf2012.eventbrite.com/).\n\nFollow [@bohconf](htt
 p://twitter.com/bohconf) for the latest news.
SUMMARY:BohConf
LOCATION:Hilton\, 4th Floor
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T095000
DESCRIPTION:TBD
SUMMARY:Keynote: COOKPAD
LOCATION:Salon HJK
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DESCRIPTION:"Stack Smashing" refers to an internal project where I took o
 ur production Rails application environment down from over 100 virtual m
 achines to 2 physical machines. Our application environment for Major Le
 ague Gaming consists of 13+ inter-connected applications with millions o
 f users to provide functionality such as single-sign on\, online video (
 both video on demand and UGC)\, news and live competition information\, 
 photo galleries\, profiles\, and much more. We simply needed a simpler i
 nfrastructure in which to develop and deploy our applications. In this t
 alk\, we will cover the following:\n\n  * Network topology before and af
 ter\, as well as the makeup of our virtual and physical machines.\n  * D
 etailed discussion of Chef recipes\, NGINX\, HAProxy configurations and 
 updates to standard configurations.\n  * Application and service monitor
 ing and configuration.\n  * Application migration from the old stack to 
 the new stack.\n  * Rails 3 to Rails 3.1 upgrade insights.\n  * Unicorns
 !\n  * Strategies for service configuration to handle failure.\n  * Offl
 ine processing with queueing and queue management.\n  * Simplifying\, st
 andardizing and sexy-fying your Capistrano-based deployment tasks into a
  reusable gem.\n  * Behavior driven infrastructure monitoring and valida
 tion.\n  * Adopting an opt-in continuous deployment strategy that is int
 egrated with our continuous integration environment.\n\nThis will be a v
 ery code and example-focused talk. Come and learn about the ways that yo
 u can simplify your existing infrastructure.\n\nSpeakers:\nDavid Czarnec
 ki\n	Bio: David Czarnecki is a lead engineer at  Agora Games (a part of 
 Major League Gaming)\, http://www.agoragames.com\, a company that specia
 lizes in building middleware to power video games\, both in-game and on 
 the web. He is the author of 2 books for O'Reilly and had previously bee
 n developing exclusively in Java for nearly 15 years. He has been develo
 ping in Ruby and Rails since joining Agora Games in 2008 and has been a 
 speaker at conferences like JavaOne\, RailsConf and Ruby Midwest. David 
 loves video games\, especially the Guitar Hero series and Left 4 Dead.
SUMMARY:Stack Smashing
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T133000
DESCRIPTION:Rails is huge.  Even if you have worked with it for a long ti
 me\, it's unlikely that you have stumbled across everything yet.\n\nDo y
 ou really know what all of the built-in Rake tasks do?  Have you seen al
 l of the methods ActiveSupport makes available to you?  Are you aware of
  all the queries ActiveRecord is capable of?\n\nIn this talk\, I'll dig 
 into the extras of Rails and see if I can't turn up some features that y
 ou don't see all of the time\, but that might just be handy to know abou
 t anyway.  I'll make sure you come out of this able to impress your frie
 nds at the hackfest.\n\nSpeakers:\nJames Edward Gray II\n	Bio: James (@J
 EG2) has been a Rails programmer for about as long as it has been fashio
 nable to be one and a Rubyist even longer than that.  As you probably kn
 ow from listening to him on the Ruby Rogues podcast\, James loves to dig
  into how our community and code works.
SUMMARY:Ten Things You Didn't Know Rails Could Do
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DESCRIPTION:This talk covers a successful utilization of Rails Engines to
  share features that cut across the layers of MVC in different Rails 3 p
 rojects. Rails Engines thus provide the best of both worlds: improved pr
 oductivity by reusing MVC code (including assets like Javascript\, CSS\,
  and Images) and better flexibility by allowing different applications t
 o customize behavior as needed without reliance on application-dependent
  conditionals. Rails Engine patterns will be provided to guide developer
 s on how to leverage Rails Engines' reusability and flexibility without 
 sacrificing maintainability.\n\nOutline:\n\n- Basics of Rails Engines\n-
  Rails Engine Patterns\n- Improved Productivity Tips\n- Summary of Benef
 its and Trade-Offs\n\nAttendees should walk away with an overview of Rai
 ls Engines and guidelines on how to utilize them effectively.\n\nSpeaker
 s:\nAndy Maleh\n	Bio: Andy Maleh is a Software Engineer at Groupon who s
 pecializes in user needs analysis and building transformative software t
 hat meets ongoing demands. He leads by embracing agile practices and sof
 tware craftsmanship in the process of perfecting Groupon's deal experien
 ce. He joined Groupon via Obtiva\, where he served as a Senior Consultan
 t for more than five years. Andy is also the Founder and Lead Developer 
 of the Glimmer open source project for Desktop Development with Ruby.\n\
 nAndy holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from DePaul University in Ch
 icago and a B.S. in Computer Science from McGill University (Montreal). 
 Outside of Groupon walls\, Andy is a drummer in two indie rock bands (Ga
 g Order and Cletus Darby) and travels via Longboard when the Chicago wea
 ther permits.
SUMMARY:Rails Engines Patterns
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T133000
DESCRIPTION:Most of us have been there.  That website you want to use\, f
 rom your mobile device\, that just refuses to cooperate.  From the Flash
 -only\, to the can't f**king log in\, to the redirect-to-mobile-and-stay
 -there sites\, there's more than enough websites out there to invoke Mob
 ile Rage.\n\nAlthough we all know that the best mobile development strat
 egy is "mobile-first"\, we also all know how many sites and applications
  out there were designed and built by people who didn't imagine how fast
  mobile would take over.\n\nCome learn about the common mistakes most pe
 ople make for mobile\, and some of the simple solutions you can use to h
 elp reduce Mobile Rage\, without having to do a complete rewrite.\n\nSpe
 akers:\nLori M Olson\n	Bio: Six years ago Lori tried Ruby/Rails as an al
 ternative to Java development and "has never looked back!" She has been 
 delivering Rails and Javascript based applications in the oil & gas indu
 stry for the last six years\, working for companies like Labrador Techno
 logies\, CodeGear/Borland\, and Intellog.\n\nLori has a long list of spe
 aking credits. Most recently\, she spoke at Confoo 2012 in Montreal\, jQ
 uery Conf Boston 2011\, Madison Ruby 2011\, and Conferencia Rails 2010 i
 n Madrid. She has also presented at the CodeRage and COSSFEST conference
 s\, and has presented frequently to the Calgary Ruby User Society\, of w
 hich she is also a co-founder
SUMMARY:Mobile Rage - What causes it & how to fix it
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T103000
DESCRIPTION:Are you having trouble launching new features because of fric
 tion between development and operations?  At CustomInk\, we've reduced t
 his friction by making changes to our teams\, processes\, and tools.  Co
 me find out what we've been up to and learn how you can implement simila
 r changes in your own environment.\n\nThere's always a bit of tension wh
 en getting features from idea to production.  In this talk\, we'll look 
 at some of the changes CustomInk has made to reduce this friction and ke
 ep the new features coming.  Gone are the days of bi-monthly deploys\, o
 ffice pools dedicated to guessing when this deploy will be rolled back\,
  and the ceremony surrounding the deploy-rollback-fix-deploy cycle.  Tod
 ay\, ideas flow from product managers to developers to production with e
 ase thanks to a number of changes that we've made to our teams\, process
 es and tools.\n\nDuring this talk\, we'll look at:\n\n* How product mana
 gers drive the release cycle\n  * Ideas and customer feedback\n  * Prior
 itizing development requests\n  * Managing branch merges and deployments
  (yes\, product managers can help here!)\n\n* How operations enables dev
 eloper productivity\n  * Spinning up development environments - Vagrant\
 , Chef\n  * Infrastructure Automation - Chef\n  * Enabling Continuous De
 ployment - Capistrano and caphub\n  * Failing gracefully - Fault-toleran
 t load balancing with ldirectord\n\n* How developers get their code runn
 ing in production\n  * Staging environments\n  * Continuous Integration 
 - Jenkins\, Green Screen\n  * Staying on topic:  Deploying changes when 
 they're ready\n  \n* Getting rid of the over-the-wall mentality - Dev & 
 Ops working together\n  * Enabling developers to do it themselves\n  * P
 air programing infrastructure automation\n  * Keeping the process light 
 and the communication flowing\n\nSpeakers:\nNathen Harvey\n	Bio: Nathen 
 Harvey is the manager of Web Operations for CustomInk.com\, a website th
 at allows you to design and purchase custom apparel for your group or sp
 ecial event. Nathen is the co-organizer of the Washington DC MongoDB Use
 rs' Group and DevOps DC. Nathen contributes to open source projects incl
 uding the Opscode Chef framework.  When not working or hosting meetups\,
  Nathen enjoys going to concerts\, drinking craft beer\, and over sharin
 g on sites like twitter\, untappd\, and foursquare.
SUMMARY:Taming the Kraken - How Operations enables developer productivity
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T133000
DESCRIPTION:RoR makes an excellent framework for off-the-beaten-path type
  of projects\, like hacking Roombas and other robots. In this presentati
 on\, I'll demonstrate how our soon to be robot overlords will be happy w
 hen we gift them with RoR and a connection to the internet. The presenta
 tion will include working examples and demonstrations of:\n\n- communica
 ting with an Arduino chip via Ruby\n- tethered serial and wireless bluet
 ooth control of a Roomba via Ruby and Arduino\n- two-way communication w
 ith our robot friends over the web using Ruby on Rails and popular web s
 ervices\n- useful applications of robots controlled over the web\n- 3 Ro
 RoR pitfalls to watch-out for\n- live performance of "Chiron Beta Prime"
  by Jonathan Coulton*\n\nThe presentation will close with an argument fo
 r why hacking on fun\, often eccentric\, projects in your spare time is 
 essential for staying motivated\, habitual improvement\, and tangential 
 learning -- i.e.\, being a real pragmatic programmer.\n\n*not included\,
  perhaps\n\nSpeakers:\nCharles Abbot\n	Bio: Charles works at COOKPAD\, J
 apan's largest recipe site and Rails shop. He spends most of his dayligh
 t hours building reporting\, analytic\, and payment management systems t
 hat millions of loyal users don't actually get to see. When he's not at 
 work graphing bell-curves\, forecasting user behavior\, and throwing aro
 und gut-wrenching terms like "correlation-coefficients" and "confidence 
 intervals"  - he likes to play basketball\, prepare his Roomba for the r
 obot uprising\, and dote on his newborn daughter. Charles has been using
  Ruby and Rails since Feb of '06.
SUMMARY:RoRoRoomba - Ruby on Rails on Roomba
LOCATION:Salon K
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DESCRIPTION:Progressive Enhancement isn't important on the mobile web bec
 ause it's all Webkit right? Not so fast. Even among Webkit implementatio
 ns events\, css\, and performance vary widely. We'll talk about the dark
 er corners of the mobile web and show how jQuery Mobile can help you bui
 ld Rails applications that are reliable\, accessible\, and support more 
 devices.\n\nSpeakers:\nJohn Bender\n	Bio: John Bender is the co-creator 
 of Vagrant\, a jQuery Mobile contributor\, and a recovering polygot. Dur
 ing the day he works full-time on jQuery Mobile at Adobe and otherwise s
 pends his time hacking on open source. John shares his thoughts at http:
 //johnbender.us and as @johnbender on Twitter.
SUMMARY:Progressive Enhancement on the Mobile Web
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DESCRIPTION:StillAlive.com was born from the 48 hour intense 2010 Rails R
 umble and has grown!  Having recently passed our 50\,000\,000th site res
 ult\, this talk discusses the real world challenges and optimisations re
 quired to take a code base born from the fires of YAGNI to a production 
 system.\n\nThis talk isn't about how you can scale from 0 requests to 50
 0 billion requests per microsecond\, but give a practical view to some o
 f the performance problems we faced as the application steadily grew fro
 m a hack job into a functioning system.\n\nThe journey will go through t
 he mistakes we made\, challenges faced and real world optimisations disc
 overed\, including some tricks we learnt along the way from concurrent i
 ndex creation to using the ZeroMQ messaging framework with Rails\n\nSpea
 kers:\nMikel Lindsaar\n	Bio: Mikel Lindsaar heads up reInteractive\, a R
 ails development company in Sydney Australia and StillAlive.com a web ap
 plication monitoring service\, he is also the author of the Ruby mail ge
 m\, is on the Rails commit team for his work on ActionMailer and has con
 tributed to many open source projects.
SUMMARY:From Rails Rumble to 50\,000\,000 results
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T103000
DESCRIPTION:When Ruby on Rails burst onto the scene in 2004\, it excited 
 web developers by showing that you could build next generation apps quic
 kly and efficiently. Rails was one of the first frameworks to embrace Aj
 ax\, giving everyone the power to do partial page updates and whiz-bang 
 effects in a conventional\, effortless way.\n\nIn 2007\, the Rails team 
 embraced RESTful conventions\, making API development a no-brainer for n
 ew applications. Because RESTful JSON is so easy in Rails\, Rails applic
 ations tend to implement APIs on balance.\n\nThen it was time to polish.
  Both the 2.0 and 3.0 releases cleaned up the code-base and found ways t
 o take emerging conventions and make them easier to use.\n\nBut now\, li
 ke in 2004\, another revolution is brewing. Increasingly\, developers ar
 e moving their view layer from the server into the client\, using RESTfu
 l JSON and client-side templating to increase responsiveness and bring a
 pplicable aspects of desktop applications to the web.\n\nLike last time\
 , not every application needs to jump head-first into this new world. Bu
 t just as in 2004\, Rails has an opportunity to embrace the future\, and
  bring its ruthless insistence on convention over configuration to bear 
 on this problem.\n\nRails already has the plumbing to be a fantastic con
 ventional JSON server. The question is: will we take the challenge\, or 
 will we desperately cling to the past\, hoping that the future will neve
 r come?\n\nSpeakers:\nYehuda Katz\n	Bio: Yehuda Katz is a member of the 
 Ember.js\, Ruby on Rails and jQuery Core Teams\; he spends his daytime h
 ours at the startup he founded\, Tilde Inc.. Yehuda is the co-author of 
 the best-selling jQuery in Action\, Rails 3 in Action\, and is a contrib
 utor to Ruby in Practice. He spends most of his time hacking on open sou
 rce--his main projects\, along with others\, like Thor\, Handlebars and 
 Janus--or traveling the world doing evangelism work. He blogs at http://
 yehudakatz.com and can be found on Twitter as @wycats.
SUMMARY:Rails: The Next Five Years
LOCATION:Salon J
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DESCRIPTION:Many people know that machine learning techniques can facilit
 ate learning from\, and adapting to\, noisy\, real-world data\, but aren
 't sure how to begin using them.   Starting with two real-world examples
 \, we will introduce you to some libraries that bring machine learning t
 echniques to your Rails applications.   We will then dive into the art o
 f feature design\, one of the first practical roadblocks that many peopl
 e encounter when applying machine learning.  Feature design is the chall
 enging\, subtle\, and often trail-and-error process of selecting and tra
 nsforming the data you provide for your learning algorithm\, and it is o
 ften the hardest part of using these techniques.  Our goal is for you to
  come out of this talk with the tools necessary to think about machine l
 earning and how to apply it to your problems.\n\nSpeakers:\nAndrew Canti
 no & Ryan Stout\n	Bio: Andrew Cantino has been building web applications
  for over fifteen years.  Andrew has a Masters in Computer Science from 
 Georgia Tech\, where he focused on machine learning and artificial intel
 ligence.  He has worked on Gmail at Google\, on video search at CastTV\,
  and recently spent two years practicing Agile software development at P
 ivotal Labs.  Andrew is currently VP of Engineering at Mavenlink.\n\nRya
 n Stout has also been doing web development for fifteen years and has be
 en working with Rails for the last six.  He runs a small web-consulting 
 agency and has been involved in startups ranging from social gaming to o
 nline dating and domain search.  He spent the last year developing a ste
 alth startup that uses both natural language processing systems and mode
 rn machine learning techniques.
SUMMARY:Practical Machine Learning and Rails
LOCATION:Salon K
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T160000
DESCRIPTION:Rails makes it very easy to rapidly develop web applications\
 , but doesn’t always make it so simple to deploy or secure them. \n\nT
 his talk is going to focus on best practices to secure your rails applic
 ation\, learnt through multiple high profile projects and penetration te
 sts. The talk will be practical and show that this isn’t necessarily h
 ard if thought about from the start. \n\nWe’ll also touch on getting t
 he right balance of security without it getting in the way of the users.
 \n\nSpeakers:\nThomas Pomfret\n	Bio: Thomas is CTO at Mint Digital where
  he has worked since the very beginning after acing the interview almost
  purely on the back of a sharp suit. Having been involved in all of Mint
 's major projects he has great real world experience in developing mass 
 participation web sites quickly and effectively along with some hard les
 sons learnt on how to make them stay up. He mainly hacks in ruby althoug
 h has a growing love for erlang.\n\nPast speaking gigs include Scotland 
 on Rails\, London Ruby Users Group and Kings of Code.
SUMMARY:Securing your site
LOCATION:Salon J
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T141500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T133000
DESCRIPTION:Even the simplest of Rails applications can eventually grow i
 nto a twisted mess of complexity. At some point you will need a backgrou
 nd task\, or a long-running service\, or a scheduled job\, or all of the
  above and more. All of these little bits of functionality added to an a
 pplication ad hoc can keep you up at night with cold sweats and nightmar
 es. But it doesn't have to be that way.\n\nIn this presentation\, we wil
 l examine a complex Rails application - complexity that is eventually co
 mmon to most modern Rails apps: background tasks\, scheduled jobs\, WebS
 ockets\, long-running services\, caching and more. We will look at the c
 hallenges inherent in these features for both development and deployment
 . Then we'll look to TorqueBox for simple solutions to these complex pro
 blems. You'll never have that long-runing service using the wrong Ruby c
 ode again\; no more environment variable nightmares in your cron jobs. Y
 ou can sleep better now.\n\nTorqueBox is a Ruby application server that 
 is built on JRuby and JBoss AS7. It provides asynchronous messaging\, sc
 heduled jobs\, long-running processes\, caching\, simple deployment\, an
 d much more. TorqueBox is designed to bring the power\, scalability and 
 stability of these time-tested JavaEE services to Ruby applications thro
 ugh a simple and expressive Ruby interface.\n\nSpeakers:\nLance Ball\n	B
 io: Lance Ball is a Senior Software Developer at Red Hat and a core memb
 er of the TorqueBox team. He has been writing code for over a dozen year
 s in startups\, as a consultant\, and working for The Man. His ideas hav
 e been expressed in Ruby\, Java\, Perl and C++. As a consultant\, Lance 
 wrote Rails and Sinatra applications before joining Red Hat. He's on Twi
 tter as @lanceball.
SUMMARY:Complex Made Simple: Sleep Better with TorqueBox
LOCATION:Salon H
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T160000
DESCRIPTION:As more people collaborate on the web with your applications\
 , its not enough to just persist data to the database\; it needs to be p
 ushed out to your users web browsers so that they're always working with
  the freshest data.\n\nIn this session\, Brad will show how to build a r
 eal-time layer on top of an existing Rails application's authorization a
 nd resource logic so that you can build on top of the hard work already 
 invested in your Rails application.\n\nTopics that will be discussed inc
 lude:\n\n- Why I didn't choose Socket.IO\n- Stream application resources
  into Backbone.js models to keep data fresh\n- Hook into ActiveRecord to
  push representations of data into a message queue\n- Message queue nami
 ng conventions public/private resource streams\n- Exposing message queue
 s to HTTP\n- Securing streams with existing application authorization lo
 gic\n- Considerations for streaming in a production environment\n\nSpeak
 ers:\nBrad Gessler\n	Bio: I'm the CTO at Poll Everywhere\, the worlds la
 rgest mobile survey platform\, and I love building stuff. I've been hack
 ing Rails since 1.x\, full embraced REST\, and haves since extended the 
 concept to make building realtime Rails application easier.
SUMMARY:Realtime web applications with streaming REST
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T160000
DESCRIPTION:A glimpse of some of the features coming to Sass in the pendi
 ng 3.2\nrelease. Plus\, a huge announcement about the project that's bee
 n\nmonths in the making as we have secretly toiled away on something tha
 t\nwe think will be awesome. Hear it first at this talk. Repositories\nw
 ill be made public when the talk is over. Shh! Its a secret!\n\nSpeakers
 :\nHampton Catlin\n	Bio: Hampton Catlin is the inventor of Sass\, a CSS 
 generating language\, and the Haml markup language.\nHe is currently the
  Director of Engineering at Moovweb\, a (bootstrapped!) startup focusing
  on transforming how we interact with the web. He is the original creato
 r of Wikipedia Mobile (m.wikipedia.org) and is also the creator of sever
 al successful iPhone applications that have been downloaded by over 3 mi
 llion people.
SUMMARY:The Future of Sass
LOCATION:Salon H
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T113000
DESCRIPTION:It is no secret that location has become ubiquitous. Mobile G
 PS\, available data sets\, and easy-to-use mapping services have brought
  geospatial information within reach of web developers. Location already
  plays a significant role in many of the major services such as Twitter\
 , Facebook\, and Google\, not to mention legions of startups.\n\nHowever
 \, for those of us implementing more than the most trivial features\, it
  is also true that location is challenging. A significant learning curve
  awaits us\, involving spatial databases\, coordinate systems\, intercha
 nge formats\, and plenty of math. Our Ruby-based tools lag a bit behind 
 those available to our Java- and Python-oriented colleagues\, and effect
 ive documentation is scarce.\n\nThis presentation aims to jump-start Rai
 ls developers hoping to go beyond putting a few pushpins on a Google Map
 . Rather than spending a lot of time explaining the many concepts involv
 ed\, we'll bypass the learning curve and jump straight into walking thro
 ugh code for a few nontrivial applications. The hope is that the concept
 ual knowledge will come naturally as a result of seeing it in action\, b
 ut pointers to online resources will also be provided to fill in any gap
 s.\n\nA thorough understanding of Ruby\, Rails\, ActiveRecord\, and SQL 
 will be assumed. No prior knowledge of GIS or computational geometry wil
 l be required\, though it may be helpful.\n\nSpeakers:\nDaniel Azuma\n	B
 io: Daniel Azuma is a Ruby developer specializing in geospatial technolo
 gies\, computational geometry\, graphics\, and related fields. He is the
  author of RGeo and related gems commonly used for geospatial analysis i
 n Ruby and Rails applications. He currently works as Chief Software Arch
 itect at Pirq\, and blogs at daniel-azuma.com.
SUMMARY:Getting Down To Earth: Geospatial Analysis With Rails
LOCATION:Salon H
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T113000
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the story of Ezra's travels through th
 e history of ancient Rails 0.6 when he first picked it up in 2004 all th
 e way through current times and extrapolate out to the future of the Rai
 ls and Ruby platform and how much of a success it has been. We will talk
  about the twisting path from way back then to now and beyond and explor
 e what Rails was\, is and will be as time keeps on slipping into the fut
 ure.\n\nThis talk will be chock full of aqdvancxed tech as well as rambl
 ings of a Rails industry Vet who has been "On the Rails" for *8* long ye
 ars now and has played a major part in shaping what has been\, is and wi
 ll be(at least in his own mind where he is absolutely a legend\, in real
 ity he's just a schmuck who hacks ruby)\n\nI want to share with the Rail
 s community my story and experiences and hopefully impart some wisdom an
 d some hard learned lessons about life\, liberty and the pursuit of a ra
 ils app that doesn't use 400Mb of RAM per process \;)\n\nSpeakers:\nEzra
  Zygmuntowicz\n	Bio: Ezra Zygmuntowicz is one of the early pioneers in t
 he rails space. He was one of three original founders of Engine Yard and
  spearheaded much of the open source culture and community support for r
 uby in general that the company was built on. He is the author of Deploy
 ing Rails Applications for there pragmatic programmers and released one 
 of the earliest commercial websites written in Rails back in fall of 200
 4 for the Yakima Herald Republic Newspaper.\n\nEzra is the "deployment g
 uy"\, when you look back in history on the rails mailing list you will f
 ind literally thousands of posts about deployment and helping the commun
 ity figure out how to deploy and scale rails apps when no one knew how t
 o do it.\n\nEzra has build multiple clouds from the ground up. One IaaS 
 cloud for Engine Yard before there was the term cloud at all\, before EC
 2 existed even. He also built 2 PaaS clouds\, Appcloud\, Engine Yard's c
 urrent AWS PaaS platform and Cloud Foundry a VMWare project. I think it 
 may be safe to say that he has deployed more rails apps personally then 
 anyone else on the planet.\n\nEzra is a speaker at many ruby and cloud r
 elated technology conferences and has spoken at every single railsconf s
 ince the first one but missed out on speaking at the last 2 events.\n\nE
 zra has become a Extroverted Mad Scientist Recluse with entrepreneurial 
 tendencies and more recently has gone back to his roots in the physical 
 world building many embedded electronics projects\, blowing glass artwor
 k\, building and using multiple 3d printers\, CNC machines and Laser cut
 ters and recently even built his own CO2 laser from scratch!.\n\nHe has 
 come full circle from artists to technologist and back again\, this time
  applying the technology of rails\, ruby\,cloud and the internet to clas
 sic artwork in mediums like Glass\, QWood\, Metals and Plastics. He is n
 ow slowly building the Internet of Things.
SUMMARY:What a long Strange Trip it has been.
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T113000
DESCRIPTION:Rails is so popular to be used to fast build a website\, at t
 he beginning we sometimes write codes too fast without considering code 
 quality\, but after your company grows fast\, you have to pay more atten
 tions on code review to make your website more robust and more maintaina
 ble.\n\nIn this talk I will introduce you a way to build a semi automati
 c code review process\, in this process a tool will analyze the source c
 odes of your rails project\, then give you some suggestions to refactor 
 your codes according to  rails best practices. It can also check your co
 des according to your team's rails code guideline. So engineers can focu
 s on implementation performance\, scalability\, etc. when they do code r
 eview.\n\nSpeakers:\nRichard Huang\n	Bio: Richard Huang is a senior engi
 neer\, a passionate rubyist and open source advocate\, he created  <a hr
 ef="https://github.com/railsbp/rails_best_practices">rails_best_practice
 s</a> gem\, and also built the websites <a href="http://rails-bestpracti
 ces.com">rails-bestpractices.com</a> and <a href="http://railsbp.com">ra
 ilsbp.com</a>
SUMMARY:Semi Automatic Code Review
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T103000
DESCRIPTION:Redis is a darling of the NoSQL crowd and for good reasons. I
 t's easy to setup and has blazing fast performance. In this talk\, drawn
  on real production experience and real code straight out of the DueProp
 s codebase\, Obie will introduce and demonstrate key Redis application p
 atterns vital to today's Rails developer. Emphasis will be placed on rea
 l-world constraints and how to leverage Redis to improve scaling and per
 formance over plain-vanilla ActiveRecord applications.\n\nConcepts cover
 ed:\n* Adding Redis-based flags and other properties to ActiveRecord obj
 ects\n* Event tracking with Redis sets\n* Graphing relationships between
  (User) objects with Redis sets\n* Time-ordered activity feeds with Redi
 s sorted sets\n* Applying security restrictions to display of activity f
 eeds with intersection of Redis sorted sets\n* Aggregating group activit
 y feeds with union of Redis sorted sets\n* Applying Redis sorted sets to
  scoring and leaderboard programming\n* Integrating Redis with Rspec and
  Cucumber\n* Debugging tactics for when things go wrong or are unclear\n
 \nSpeakers:\nObie Fernandez\n	Bio: Obie Fernandez is an author and entre
 preneur. He founded Hashrocket in 2007 and led it to prominence as one o
 f the world’s leading Rails-based design and development shops. He is 
 also a  frequent speaker at industry events and is Addison Wesley’s Se
 ries Editor for the bestselling Professional Ruby Series. Prior to Hashr
 ocket\, as a senior consultant at ThoughtWorks\, Obie specialized in com
 plex custom enterprise software projects. His latest startup is DueProps
 .com\, a promising new web startup that aims to revolutionize the way th
 at people are recognized at work.
SUMMARY:Redis Application Patterns in Rails
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T103000
DESCRIPTION:Presenter and Decorators are design approaches that can be us
 ed in Rails applications outside of the standard Models\, Views and Cont
 rollers. These approaches are becoming more and more popular as teams se
 arch for new ways to identify and manage the complexity within their app
 lications.\n\nIn this session Mike Moore will defined the Presenter and 
 Decorator approaches using simple and clear terminology. Common design p
 roblems in Rails applications will be shown using real-life code example
 s and refactored toward Presenters and Decorators. Code will be improved
  and strengthened by identifying and respecting the dependencies within 
 large applications.\n\nSpeakers:\nMike Moore\n	Bio: Mike Moore hacks for
  a living at Bloomfire. He organizes conferences\, is an occasional podc
 aster\, part-time purveyor of Ruby-themed apparel\, and tries to be a ni
 ce guy. He loves his family and the Ruby community.\n\nhttp://blowmage.c
 om/\nhttp://twitter.com/blowmage\nhttp://github.com/blowmage
SUMMARY:Presenters and Decorators: A Code Tour
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DESCRIPTION:With more than a million user submitted recipes and an active
  user base of 15 million monthly unique users\, cookpad.com is the world
 's largest recipe website\, and an essential tool for the 50% of all Jap
 anese women in their 20's and 30's who use the site regularly.\n\nThe Co
 okpad.com service is built on Rails and is running entirely on AWS in To
 kyo\, where more than 30 engineers are working in small agile teams to b
 ring more value to users every day.\n\nAs you know\, Japan had a huge ea
 rthquake and tsunami last year\, and some of those affected didn't have 
 cooking facilities\, water or basic foods for long time. Many Cookpad us
 ers immediately uploaded simple recipes that could be made without the b
 asics in adverse conditions\, and helped those in hardship immensely all
 owing them to enjoy food with their families at that difficult time.\n\n
 In this session\, I'll talk about the COOKPAD way of creating services a
 nd the technologies behind them\, and how we improve peoples lives throu
 gh cooking every day.\n\nSpeakers:\nMasahiro Ihara\n	Bio: Masahiro Ihara
  is Vice President Engineering at Cookpad Inc. in Tokyo.
SUMMARY:How Rails helps make cooking more fun in Japan
LOCATION:Room 615
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T103000
DESCRIPTION:Do you need to start learning Ruby on Rails? In this morning 
 tutorial the Envy Labs team will lead you through all five labs of their
  Rails for Zombies course. Unlike other tutorials\, all you need to star
 t coding Rails is a laptop with Wi-Fi and a browser which isn’t Intern
 et Explorer. All coding will be done through our web application\, and t
 here will be plenty of lab assistants to help you if you get stuck along
  the way. Before you come to the course we recommend you play through ht
 tp://www.tryruby.org/. It’s an in-browser Ruby tutorial.\n\nTopics Cov
 ered\n* Basic ActiveRecord CRUD\n* Models\, Validations\, has_many\, bel
 ongs_to\n* Views\, ERB\, Loops\n* Controllers\, before filter\n* Basic R
 outing\n\nSpeakers:\nGregg Pollack
SUMMARY:Rails for Zombies (AKA Intro to Rails - Part 1)
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T143000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T103000
DESCRIPTION:Done with Rails for Zombies but can't stop the craving for a 
 second corpse? We’ll pickup where Rails for Zombies 1 leaves off and j
 ump into the topics listed below. All you need to bring is a laptop with
  Wi-Fi and a browser which isn’t Internet Explorer. All coding will be
  done through our web application\, and there will be plenty of lab assi
 stants to help you if you get stuck along the way. \n\nTopics Covered\n*
  How to create a Rails app\, the command line\, database migrations\, th
 e Ruby 1.9 Hash Syntax\, Bundler\, and Database configuration.\n* Named 
 Scope\, Callbacks\, Include\, has_many\, and has_many :through relations
 hips.\n* REST principles\, view forms\, nested resources\, and view part
 ials.\n* Sending email from our Rails app and the Rails 3.1: the Asset P
 ipeline.\n* Controller rendering options and custom RESTful routes. Desi
 gn an API with Rails and respond to AJAX requests.\n\nSpeakers:\nGregg P
 ollack
SUMMARY:Rails for Zombies 2 (AKA Intro to Rails - Part 2)
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T143000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T103000
DESCRIPTION:So you’ve got the basics of Rails down\, but you haven’t 
 really done any testing.  Never fear\, this course will lead you through
  everything you need to know to start testing your Rails apps.  All you 
 need to bring is a laptop with Wi-Fi and a browser which isn’t Interne
 t Explorer. All coding will be done through our web application\, and th
 ere will be plenty of lab assistants to help you if you get stuck along 
 the way. \n\nTopics Covered\n* Test Unit basics\n* Testing Rails models\
 , using fixtures\, and validation testing.\n* Improving our testing code
  with macros\, shoulda basics\, and setup/teardown.\n* Mocking and Stubb
 ing with Mocha\n* Testing the whole Rails stack with Capybara Integratio
 n tests\n* Using Factory Girl to replace Fixtures\n\nSpeakers:\nGregg Po
 llack
SUMMARY:Rails Testing for Zombies
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T150000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered what makes Rails tick? Bryan Liles wil
 l cover two of the pillars of the Rails foundation: ActiveSupport and Ac
 tiveModel. Together we will discover where some of Rails’ ease and pow
 er originates and how make use of it in your projects.\n\nSpeakers:\nBry
 an Liles
SUMMARY:ActiveSupport and ActiveModel
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T153000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T150000
DESCRIPTION:Based on Chapter 4 of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael H
 artl\, “Rails-flavored Ruby” covers the aspects of the Ruby programm
 ing language most important for developing Rails applications. Topics in
 clude hashes\, arrays\, and other objects\; blocks\; functions\; and cla
 sses.\n\nSpeakers:\nMichael Hartl
SUMMARY:Rails-flavored Ruby
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T163000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T160000
DESCRIPTION:Working with Rails often means switching between several Ruby
  versions back and forth which is made almost seamless by RVM. It also i
 nvolves several simple command line tools like Pry\, Guard\, and Pow and
  that will make your development life so much easier.\n\nSpeakers:\nOliv
 ier Lacan
SUMMARY:RVM & Essential Rails Development Tools
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T170000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T163000
DESCRIPTION:Scopes are a great way of encapsulating query logic in a gran
 ular\, reusable way. This talk will cover some techniques you can use to
  keep those scopes as composable and portable as possible.  We’ll cove
 r how to use Arel directly\, while avoiding the common practice of using
  SQL fragments\, and show you how this can make your scopes more reusabl
 e\, while at the same time preventing you from using database vendor spe
 cific operators\, such as ILIKE.\n\nSpeakers:\nJacob Swanner
SUMMARY:ActiveRecord Scopes and Arel
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T150000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T143000
DESCRIPTION:Anyone who develops with Rails uses the Rake tool all the tim
 e. Rake will run your tests\, migrate your database\, and precompile you
 r assets. But did you know you can define and build your own Rake tasks?
  This short talk will cover the basics of using Rake and writing simple 
 automation tasks to make your development process smother.\n\nSpeakers:\
 nJim Weirich
SUMMARY:Basic Rake
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T153000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T150000
DESCRIPTION:There’s no need to reinvent the wheel. There are over 30\,0
 00 RubyGems available on just RubyGems.org\, alone. But with so many out
  there\, it must be impossible to find the right one\, right? In this ta
 lk we’ll learn about some resources which help you find the right gems
 \, as well as how to intelligently decide if a library is right for your
  project.\n\nSpeakers:\nNathaniel Bibler
SUMMARY:How to Find Valuable Gems
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T163000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T160000
DESCRIPTION:Building safe web applications isn’t always easy. The good 
 news is that Rails provides a lot of features that will help you along t
 he way. Aaron will walk you through the common mistakes made by web deve
 lopers\, and how to account for them while working with Rails. He will a
 lso walk you through some tools you can use to make securing your applic
 ations much much easier.\n\nSpeakers:\nAaron Bedra
SUMMARY:Securing the Rails
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T170000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T163000
DESCRIPTION:In this talk we will explore the best practices in using inte
 rfaces as the foundation for designing object oriented applications in R
 uby and Rails. We will talk about some of the techniques that make it po
 ssible to write loosely coupled components that can be easily extended t
 o respond to requirement changes.\n\nSpeakers:\nCaike Souza
SUMMARY:Powerful Interfaces
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T150000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T143000
DESCRIPTION:There’s all kinds of discussion on how to make test process
 es work\, and how to make tests fast\, but it sometimes seems like there
 ’s not much discussion on how to make tests useful. What makes a BDD t
 est valuable\, in that it will save more time that it will cost in maint
 enance? I’ll claim that there are five things that you should look for
  in your tests: independence\, repeatability\, clarity\, conciseness\, a
 nd robustness. These features will make the tests easier to write\, easi
 er to verify\, and easier to keep consistent as your application becomes
  more complicated. You’ll leave this talk ready and able to write grea
 t tests.\n\nSpeakers:\nNoel Rappin
SUMMARY:Testing Best Practices\, or The Five Habits of Highly Effective T
 ests
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T153000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T150000
DESCRIPTION:“A testing tool by any other other name would assert as tru
 thy.” – some guy.  You’ve seen Rails’ built-in Test::Unit in the
  morning session.  This afternoon\, we’ll introduce RSpec\, another po
 pular testing tool.  We’ll overview basic structure\, contexts\, “sh
 ould” expectations\, mocking and stubbing.  We’ll also cover Rails m
 odel\, view\, controller\, routing\, helper\, and request specs.\n\nSpea
 kers:\nJon "Lark" Larkowski
SUMMARY:Introduction to RSpec
LOCATION:Room 616
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T113000
DESCRIPTION:CoffeeScript is taking the world\, and particularly the Rails
  eco system\, by storm. This little language has provided an almost Ruby
  like abstraction onto of JavaScript. CoffeeScript is trying to make wri
 ting  front end code as much fun as Ruby makes writing backend code.\n\n
 In this talk we start with the basic concepts of CoffeeScript and move o
 n to the more powerful and fun features of the language. While we're loo
 king at CoffeeScript we'll see how it relates to the Ruby code we write 
 everyday. What do Ruby 1.9 lambdas and CoffeeScript functions have in co
 mmon? Which of the two languages supports splats\, default arguments\, a
 nd ranges? The answers may surprise you.\n\nSpeakers:\nMark Bates\n	Bio:
  Mark Bates is the founder and chief architect of the Boston\, MA based 
 consulting company\, Meta42 Labs. Mark spends his days focusing on new a
 pplication development and consulting for his clients. At night he write
 s books\, raises kids\, and occasionally he forms a band and “tries to
  make it”.\n\nMark has been writing web applications\, in one form or 
 another\, since 1996. His career starting as a UI developer writing HTML
  and JavaScript applications before moving towards the middle(ware) with
  Java and Ruby.\n\nAlways wanting to share his wisdom\, or more correctl
 y just wanting to hear the sound of his own voice\, Mark has spoken at s
 everal high profile conferences\, include RubyConf and jQueryConf. Mark 
 has also taught classes on Ruby and Ruby on Rails. In 2009 Mark’s firs
 t (surprisingly not his last!) book\, “Distributed Programming with Ru
 by”\, was published by Addison-Wesley. In 2012 Addison-Wesley publishe
 d Mark’s second book\, “Programming in CoffeeScript”.\n\nMark live
 s just outside of Boston with his wife Rachel and their two sons\, Dylan
  and Leo. Mark can be found on the web at: http://www.markbates.com\, ht
 tp://twitter.com/markbates\, and http://github.com/markbates
SUMMARY:CoffeeScript for the Rubyist
LOCATION:Salon J
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T103000
DESCRIPTION:Rails did a lot to bring REST to developers\, but its concept
 ion leaves the REST devotee feeling a bit empty. "Where's the hypermedia
 ?" she says. "REST isn't RPC\," he may cry. "WTF??!?!" you may think. "I
  have it right there! resources :posts ! What more is there? RPC? Huh?"\
 n\nIn this talk\, Steve will explain how to design your APIs so that the
 y truly embrace the web and HTTP. Just as there's an impedance mismatch 
 between our databases\, our ORMs\, and our models\, there's an equal mis
 match between our applications\, our APIs\, and our clients. Pros and co
 ns of this approach will be discussed\, as well as why we aren't buildin
 g things this way yet.\n\nSpeakers:\nSteve Klabnik\n	Bio: Steve is a Rub
 y Hero\, software craftsman\, and an aspiring digital humanities scholar
 . He spends most of his time contributing to Open Source projects\, and 
 maintains both Hackety Hack and Shoes. He also teaches classes with Jump
 start Lab.
SUMMARY:Designing Hypermedia APIs
LOCATION:Salon K
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T143000
DESCRIPTION:Unless you have been living under a rock for the past year yo
 u might know of Travis CI\, the continuous integration service for the o
 pen source community.\n\nTravis started as a single GitHub project which
  was a rails app and a resque background task. Compare that to 12 months
  later where Travis is now four separate deployable apps\, uses two diff
 erent rubies (1.9.2 and jruby)\, and comprises a total of 10 GitHub proj
 ects.\n\nApart from looking at how Travis works now\, we will also look 
 at how it got there\, and how we broke Travis up into smaller more manag
 eable\, more concise encapsulated services.\n\nSpeakers:\nJosh Kalderimi
 s\n	Bio: Josh is a top 30 Ruby on Rails contributor and has been working
  with the framework since 2008. He maintains a bunch of open-source Ruby
  projects\, including multi_json\, linkedin\, faraday_middleware and his
  own completeness-fu. He's also one of Amsterdam.rb's organizers\, and a
 n integral part of the core Travis-CI team.
SUMMARY:Deconstructing Travis
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T141500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T133000
DESCRIPTION:A recent report by Veracode (http://www.veracode.com/reports/
 index.html) found cross-site scripting in 68% of surveyed web applicatio
 ns and SQL injection in 32%\, even though these are well-known\, easily 
 preventable\, and easily detectable vulnerabilities. As applications gro
 w larger\, it becomes harder and harder to manually verify that every li
 ne of code is adhering to security guidelines - even given the built-in 
 protection available with Ruby on Rails.\n\nBrakeman (http://brakemansca
 nner.org/) is an open source static analysis tool which provides painles
 s vulnerability scans of Rails code from "rails new" through deployment.
  Running Brakeman as a part of continuous integration provides feedback 
 during all stages of development and can alert developers immediately wh
 en a potential vulnerability is introduced. Bringing security testing as
  close to the developer as possible (even scanning as files are saved) m
 eans security problems are caught faster  - and the sooner problems are 
 found the cheaper they are to fix.\n\nAs a static analysis tool\, Brakem
 an can be run without worrying about deploying the whole application sta
 ck: no webserver\, database\, configuration\, or application dependencie
 s required - not even Rails itself. This allows fast\, easy vulnerabilit
 y scans on any Rails project.\n\nWe talk a lot about testing in the Ruby
  and Rails community\, but somehow security testing is passed over. This
  needs to change!\n\nThis talk will cover how to incorporate Brakeman in
 to Rails development and how it can improve application security\, as we
 ll as a look into how Brakeman works internally.\n\nSpeakers:\nJustin Co
 llins\n	Bio: Justin is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA  and currently works as
  an application security engineer at Twitter.
SUMMARY:Keeping Rails Applications on Track with Brakeman
LOCATION:Salon J
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T113000
DESCRIPTION:Heard about the big Basecamp launch this March? Wondering wha
 t's new\, how it's shaping Rails\, and the tech behind it? We're going t
 o go over some the practices and patterns in the new Basecamp's code bas
 e and you can learn how to improve your app with them.\n\nSome of what w
 e'll go over:\n\n* Employing concerns to share code across models/contro
 llers\n* Stacker\, the CoffeeScript component behind the "page" based la
 yout\n* Why polling for updates still works at scale\n* Client side test
 ing without the hassle\n* Using jbuilder to keep view data out of models
 \n* Keeping your team's sanity with a single setup script\n* Debugging p
 ainful JavaScript performance slowdowns\n* How to keep your app alive ev
 en if external dependencies like Redis are down\n* Why tagged request lo
 gging and action/controller SQL query logging can make finding bugs easi
 er\n\nSpeakers:\nNick Quaranto\n	Bio: Programmer at 37signals\, Husband\
 , Husky wrangler\, RIT Alum\, http://rubygems.org Mechanic.
SUMMARY:Basecamp Next: Code Spelunking
LOCATION:Salon J
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T143000
DESCRIPTION:Other programming languages have powerful features that are o
 ften enviable while working in Ruby: Python’s function decorators\, Sc
 ala’s partial evaluation\, and Haskell’s lazy evaluation\, among oth
 ers. Fortunately\, Ruby’s metaprogramming facilities give us the abili
 ty to add these features to Ruby ourselves\, without the need for the co
 re language to be changed.\n\nThis talk will walk through adding simple 
 (yet functional) versions of the previously mentioned features to Ruby\,
  using Ruby\, and discuss the dos and don’ts of responsible Ruby metap
 rogramming.\n\nSpeakers:\nMichael Fairley\n	Bio: Michael Fairley (@micha
 elfairley) is the lead developer at 1000memories\, where he helps people
  preserve and cherish their most valuable memories. He’s an active ope
 n source contributor\, and maintains a handful of side projects includin
 g mincemeat.py and bestintrobook.com.
SUMMARY:Extending Ruby with Ruby
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T103000
DESCRIPTION:In the 21st century successful teams are data-driven. We’ll
  present a complete introduction to everything you need to start monitor
 ing your service at every level from business drivers to per-request met
 rics in Rails/Rack\, down to server memory/cpu. Provides a high-level ov
 erview of the fundamental components that comprise a holistic monitoring
  system and then drills into real-world examples with tools like ActiveS
 upport::Notifications\, statsd/rack-statsd\, and CollectD. Also covers b
 est practices for active alerting on custom monitoring data.\n\nSpeakers
 :\nJoseph Ruscio\n	Bio: Joseph Ruscio is a Co-Founder and CTO at Librato
 \, Inc. He’s responsible for the company’s technical strategy\, arch
 itecture\, and generally hacks on all levels of the product. He’s a Ru
 by enthusiast and the author of the aggregate and rack-test-rest gems. @
 josephruscio on Twitter and Github.
SUMMARY:It’s Not in Production Unless it’s Monitored
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T141500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T133000
DESCRIPTION:Schemaless database are a joy to use because they make it eas
 y to iterate on your app\, especially early on. And to be honest\, the r
 elational model isn't always the best fit for real-world evolving and me
 ssy data.\n\nOn the other hand\, relational databases are proven\, robus
 t\, and powerful. Also\, over time as your data model stabilizes\, the l
 ack of well-defined schemas becomes painful. \n\nHow are we supposed to 
 pick one or the other? Simple: pick both. Fortunately recent advances in
  Postgres allow for a hybrid approach that we've been using at Heroku. T
 he hstore datatype gives you key/value in a single column\, and PLV8 ena
 bles JavaScript and JSON in Postgres. These and others in turn make Post
 gres the best document database in the world. \n\nWe will explore the po
 wer of hstore and PLV8\, explain how to use them in your project today\,
  and examine their role in the future of data.\n\nSpeakers:\nWill Leinwe
 ber\n	Bio: As a member of Heroku's incomparable Department of Data\, Wil
 l runs the world's largest Postgres service. He enjoys improving experie
 nces\, pushing boundaries\, and simplifying everything. @leinweber
SUMMARY:Schemaless SQL — The Best of Both Worlds
LOCATION:Salon K
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T160000
DESCRIPTION:Rails got much more modular after 3.0 rewrite. But do you kno
 w how to use specific rails elements outside Rails? What if you would li
 ke to use ActionView with some other library (like webmachine)? Have you
  ever needed to render view with layouts outside of the rails stack? Or 
 maybe you wanted to build some kind of system that fetches templates fro
 m database rather than from files? Router anyone? You know that you can 
 use it outside rails too?\n\nIn this talk I will dive into  Rails intern
 als and will show you what's there and how you can use it outside rails.
 \n\nAlthough I will focus on using those parts standalone\, this knowled
 ge will most likely help you also build your apps if you ever need somet
 hing sophisticated that requires modification of regular rails behavior.
 \n\nSpeakers:\nPiotr Sarnacki\n	Bio: I'm passionate rails developer that
  loves open source. I was participating in Ruby Summer of Code 2010 with
  "Rails 3 Mountable Apps" project and I still try to contribute to Rails
  as much as I can.
SUMMARY:Using Rails without Rails
LOCATION:Salon K
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T143000
DESCRIPTION:Ever run into a really gnarly data problem and wished you had
  a do-over? Tired of wrestling with ActiveRecord to model a really compl
 ex domain? Looking for a good way to echo state changes to external syst
 ems?  Then grab a cup of joe and settle in for a look at event-sourcing 
 your data.\n\nEvent-sourced data uses Plain Old Ruby Objects (POROs) to 
 model your data and exclusively uses events to mutate state on those obj
 ects. By serializing the events\, the state of your data can be recreate
 d for any point in time\, and outside listeners can create specialized p
 urposeful datastores of the data\, enabling complex business requirement
 s with fewer hassles.  We'll also touch on other architectural patterns 
 like DCI and CQRS that play well with this idea.\n\nSpeakers:\nKeith Gad
 dis\n	Bio: Keith Gaddis is a developer with almost fifteen years experie
 nce developing complex web applications\, in industries ranging from med
 ical applications to publishing to sports media.  He has over six years 
 experience with Ruby and Rails\, and has been building complex web appli
 cations for more than a decade.
SUMMARY:Use the Source\, Luke: High fidelity data with event sourcing
LOCATION:Salon K
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T160000
DESCRIPTION:What does it take to deploy an application without any downti
 me?\n\nMore than most Ruby developers would expect\, turns out\; what is
  aggravated by the lack of documentation and other resources on this top
 ic.\n\nIn this talk we'll dive into both development practices (hot comp
 atibility\, database migrations\, caching) and deployment setup (Heroku\
 , Unicorn\, HAProxy)\, covering everything you need to know in order to 
 ship code without affecting a single customer.\n\nSpeakers:\nPedro Belo\
 n	Bio: Hailing from Brazil\, Pedro moved to the US and A and joined Hero
 ku back in 2008\, taking projects ranging from Node.js support to organi
 zing Starcraft nights. Today he works on the API team\, focused on makin
 g the Heroku public APIs smoother.
SUMMARY:Zero downtime deploys for Rails apps
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T143000
DESCRIPTION:While Node.js is the hot new kid on the block\, evented libra
 ries like EventMachine for Ruby and Twisted for Python have existed for 
 a long time. When does it make sense to use one over the other? What are
  the advantages and disadvantages to using node over ruby? In this talk\
 , you will learn how to get the same power of concurrency enjoyed by Nod
 e.js while continuing to write in the language you know and love. Topics
  covered will include pubsub with redis or faye\, building evented rack 
 applications\, and running evented applications alongside existing Rails
  apps.\n\nSpeakers:\nJerry Cheung\n	Bio: Jerry Cheung splits his time as
  a co-founder of Opperator and a developer at Intridea. He is a co-autho
 r of the upcoming MacRuby in Action\, and likes contributing to open sou
 rce. He's currently dabbling in evented Ruby and Grape driven webapps. W
 hen he's not coding\, he stalks awesome cars in Southern California and 
 writes about them in RockyRoadBlog.
SUMMARY:Evented Ruby vs Node.js
LOCATION:Salon K
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T143000
DESCRIPTION:Rails 3 and above includes a powerful instrumentation system\
 , ActiveSupport::Notifications\, which can be used to track performance 
 and event information for all aspects of your application. Notifications
  are light-weight\, easy to setup\, and can be consumed by multiple subs
 cribers (logs\, audit trails\, consolidated metrics\, other parts of you
 r application).\n\nIn this session we’ll start with the basics of Acti
 veSupport::Notifications and work our way to powerful advanced use cases
 . Topics we’ll explore include:\n\n - How to set up and use notificati
 ons\n - Logging what you want from any tier of your system\n - How to ca
 pture and aggregate performance/business data for the metrics you care a
 bout most\n - Conditional monitoring in production: flag on and off data
  by system or customer to get to the root of problems more quickly\n - U
 sing ActiveSupport::Notifications in non-Rails applications and your own
  libraries\n\nSpeakers:\nMatt Sanders\n	Bio: Matt Sanders (@nextmat) is 
 a Senior Software Engineer at Librato\, Inc\, where he works on the Metr
 ics real-time monitoring platform and dreams of making your data beautif
 ul. He’s been active in the Ruby community since 2005 and is a regular
  contributor to open-source projects including compass-960 and excon. On
  sunny days he can be found chasing waves on the Texas coast.
SUMMARY:Digging Deep with ActiveSupport::Notifications
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T113000
DESCRIPTION:This talk applies the concepts of chaos theory to software de
 velopment using the Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sand pile model as the vehic
 le for exploration. The sand pile model\, which is used to show how a co
 mplex system is attracted to living on the edge of chaos\, will be used 
 as a both a powerful metaphor and analogy for building software. Softwar
 e\, it turns out\, has its own natural attraction to living in its own e
 dge of chaos. In this talk\, we'll explore what this means and entertain
  questions for what to do about it.\n\nThe speaker's hypothesis is that 
 by understanding how complex systems work we can gain insights to better
  understand and improve the act of building software. By looking through
  the lens of the sand pile model we'll explore the following:\n\n* what 
 the sand pile model can tell us about software development\n* how softwa
 re is naturally attracted to its own chaos\n* the impacts on software li
 ving perpetually on the edge of chaos\n* how existing software practices
  can be used to detract software away from chaos\n* what this means not 
 only for our software\, but for our teams\, and ourselves individually\n
 \nThis thought-provoking perspective will leave you with new ways to thi
 nk about software. You’ll walk away having learned a little about chao
 s\, complexity\, and how they apply to software with a thought-provoking
  perspective and inspiration for thinking about software in new ways.\n\
 nSpeakers:\nZach Dennis\n	Bio: Zach Dennis is a Software Craftsman/Partn
 er at Mutually Human Software in Grand Rapids\, MI. He's a proven RSpec 
 and Ruby guru\, founder of the Michigan Ruby User Group and co-author of
  The RSpec Book. He's contributed to several projects such as Ruby's sta
 ndard library documentation\, Ruby on Rails\, and RSpec as well as many 
 of his own. He's been leading and mentoring teams for almost an entire d
 ecade. In his spare time he reads copiously and plays the guitar. You ca
 n find him as @zachdennis on Twitter and @zdennis on Github.
SUMMARY:Sand Piles and Software
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T103000
DESCRIPTION:Twitter's internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n)
  model doesn't follow traditional methods.  Instead of contracting out t
 o professional translators\, Twitter maintains an active community of ov
 er 500\,000 volunteers who have helped successfully launch Twitter in 28
  languages\, including right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic.  
 Learn about some of the technical challenges we face\, how to translate 
 a Rails application at scale\, and what to do when the i18n gem and po f
 iles aren't quite enough.  We'll take a look at the tricky stuff too\, l
 ike dates\, times\, lists\, plurals\, alphabetization\, and capitalizati
 on using the twitter_cldr gem\, and go over internationalization best pr
 actices.  Finally\, we'll explain how to maintain internationalization o
 f your Javascript alongside your Rails code for an end-to-end solution.\
 n\nSpeakers:\nCameron Dutro\n	Bio: Cameron Dutro has worked for Twitter'
 s International Team for about a year and a half\, helping build and mai
 ntain the Translation Center\, Twitter's crowdsourced translation platfo
 rm.  Although he only started using Ruby and Rails a few years ago\, he'
 s a big fan of their extendibility and elegance.  Cameron is also the au
 thor of the twitter_cldr gem\, an attempt to bring JDK-level internation
 alization capabilities to the Ruby community.
SUMMARY:i18n on Rails: A Twitter Approach
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T151500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T143000
DESCRIPTION:Ruby on Rails claims to be "optimized for programmer happines
 s and sustainable productivity." I strongly disagree with the latter ass
 ertion. In this talk I will channel my half decade of industry Rails exp
 erience into expounding this position and providing constructive feedbac
 k as to what needs to change---in both the framework and the community--
 -before we can support this claim. I'll also cover practical techniques 
 you can use to be sustainably productive on your own projects in the mea
 ntime.\n\nSpeakers:\nXavier Shay\n	Bio: Xavier Shay recently emigrated f
 rom Australia to San Francisco to work on the engineering team at Square
 . Prior\, he worked on large Ruby on Rails projects at The Conversation\
 , NZX\, Redbubble\, and mentored many more. In 2010 he presented a world
  tour of a training course titled "Your Database Is Your Friend". He has
  been working with Ruby on Rails for half a decade\, and has published a
 nd contributed to over 80 open source projects according to GitHub.
SUMMARY:Sustainable Productivity with Rails
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T113000
DESCRIPTION:Chanko provides a simple framework for rapidly and safely pro
 totyping new features in your production Rails app\, and exposing these 
 prototypes to specified segments of your user base.\n\nWith Chanko\, you
  can release many concurrent features and independently manage which use
 rs see them. If there are errors with any chanko\, it will be automatial
 ly removed\, without impacting your site.\n\nChanko was extracted from C
 ookpad.com where the team uses it daily to test new features live\, in p
 roduction\, on the largest Rails site in Japan which serves 500 million 
 page views a month to a user based of over 15 million highly engaged use
 s.\n\nSpeakers:\nKenta Murata\n	Bio: Kenta Murata is an Engineer at Cook
 pad in Tokyo\, Japan. He is also a Ruby committer maintaining the bigdec
 imal library.
SUMMARY:Chanko - How Cookpad safely releases multiple feature prototypes 
 - in production - for test segments of their 15 million engaged users
LOCATION:Salon H
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T113000
DESCRIPTION:Google loves speed\, and we want to make the entire web faste
 r - yes\, that includes your Rails app! We'll explore what we've learned
  from running our own services at scale\, as well as cover the research\
 , projects\, and open sourced tools we've developed in the process. \n\n
 We'll start at the top with website optimization best practices\, take a
  look at what the browser and HTML5 can do for us\, take a detour into t
 he optimizations for the mobile web\, and finally dive deep into the SPD
 Y and TCP protocol optimizations. \n\nWe'll cover a lot of ground\, so b
 ring a coffee. By the end of the session\, you should have a good checkl
 ist to help you optimize your own site.\n\nSpeakers:\nIlya Grigorik\n	Bi
 o: Ilya Grigorik is a web performance engineer\, an open-source and Ruby
  evangelist\, a data geek\, and a proverbial early adopter of all things
  digital. He is currently helping lead the social analytics and web perf
 ormance efforts at Google. Earlier\, Ilya was the founder and CTO of Pos
 tRank\, a social analytics company\, which was acquired by Google.
SUMMARY:Let's make the web faster - tips from trenches @ Google
LOCATION:Salon H
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T141500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T133000
DESCRIPTION:MiniTest is the no-nonsense testing framework you already kno
 w how to use. If we strive for cleaner and simpler code in our own work\
 , wouldn't it be nice to have that in our test framework too? Whether yo
 u're a Test Unit fan or RSpec fan\, you'll feel right at home using Mini
 Test. Its simplicity makes it fast\, easy to use\, extendable\, and mayb
 e most importantly\, easy to understand. Plus\, Rails 4 uses MiniTest.\n
 \nSpeakers:\nJared Ning\n	Bio: Jared Ning is a freelancer from Oklahoma 
 City. Since becoming a freelancer a year and half ago\, he has been livi
 ng according to the philosophy "red\, green\, travel until the money run
 s out\, repeat".
SUMMARY:MiniTest: Refactoring Test Unit and RSpec back to version 0.0.1
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T103000
DESCRIPTION:Backbone.js is a flexible\, lightweight tool for structuring 
 the JavaScript in a modern web application. It goes great with Rails! Bu
 t beware - "flexible and lightweight" are code words for "you build your
  own plumbing." Backbone is new enough that we haven't established stron
 g patterns for that plumbing yet\, so different Backbone codebases look 
 very different\, and when you're new to the idea of structuring your Jav
 aScript\, it can be tough to tell where the win is. \n\nSo in this talk 
 I'll demystify Backbone. I'll show several very different ways I've used
  it on real Rails apps. You'll get a feel for the circumstances when Bac
 kbone makes sense\, and moreover\, when each of the different approaches
  to Backbone make sense.\n\nSpeakers:\nSarah Mei\n	Bio: Sarah Mei is a R
 uby and JavaScript developer from San Francisco. She has been programmin
 g since the days when Java was the new hotness\, and for the last two ye
 ars she's been at Pivotal Labs. She's on the core team for Diaspora and 
 Pie\, and contributes code to many other open source projects. She also 
 co-founded RailsBridge\, a non-profit that has taught more than 600 peop
 le how to program in the last three years.
SUMMARY:Using Backbone.js with Rails: Patterns from the Wild
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T160000
DESCRIPTION:Although XMPP is most often used as a chat protocol\, it can 
 also provide a robust asynchronous communication channel in other applic
 ation scenarios. In this presentation\, we will provide introduction to 
 Strophe.js\, XMPP4R\, and ejabberd\, which are the XMPP components that 
 we use to integrate our device automation framework and living room devi
 ces under test. By using these off-the-shelf components\, we addressed o
 ur needs for getting around internal firewalls\, application security (b
 ased on SASL)\, and asynchronous command-response handling.\n\nSpeakers:
 \nAndrew Carter and Steve Jang\n	Bio: Andrew Carter is a software engine
 er with 18 years of professional experience. He spent ten years at Micro
 soft on SQL Server\, bCentral\, and Xbox Live teams. Andrew has worked f
 or several Seattle area software companies including Source Labs\, Pure 
 Networks\, Jobster\, and Getty Images. Currently\, he is a Principal Sof
 tware Developer at Hulu in the Seattle office.\n\nSteve Jang is a softwa
 re engineer with experience building embedded systems\, communication pr
 otocols\, web services\, and Rails and database applications over the la
 st 18 years. After working at Geoworks\, Microsoft\, and a string of sta
 rt up companies in Seattle area\, he joined Hulu about 6 months ago\, an
 d is currently working on device automation framework for Hulu TV device
 s.
SUMMARY:Using XMPP as an Asynchronous Communication Layer Between Ruby an
 d JavaScript
LOCATION:Room 615
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T141500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T133000
DESCRIPTION:Curious how Spiceworks\, a social business app built on Rails
 \, keeps 2 million active users happy? With Ruby on Rails\, baby! In the
  last year our usage has increased 8x and now exceeds 200 million reques
 ts per month. Join Francis Sullivan\, CTO and Co-founder\, and David Bab
 bitt\, Technical Program Manager\, to hear about the architecture and be
 st practices we adopted to make this happen.\n \nGet the ins-and-outs on
 : \n·  Hosting a high volume Rails application\n·  Choosing what to op
 timize\n·  Lessons learned while moving to JRuby\n·  Updating a large 
 codebase through Rails beta to Rails 3\n·  Scaling the dev organization
 \n\nSpeakers:\nFrancis Sullivan and David Babbitt\n	Bio: Coming soon
SUMMARY:Up and to the right – how Spiceworks is scaling 200 million req
 uests per month
LOCATION:Room 615
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T103000
DESCRIPTION:Every young company expects to grow quickly\, but is your eng
 ineering team really ready for it?  In 3 years\, iTriage went from a kit
 chen table to one of the leading mobile consumer healthcare apps with ov
 er 5 million downloads. Staying ahead of this growth didn't just mean hi
 ring more Rails engineers. \n\nPatrick will discuss what iTriage did (an
 d continues to do) to stay ahead of our growth\, including: \n- Technica
 l architecture\, including use of Rails Engines to enable a modular\, RE
 STful service-based design\n- Enabling high quality iPhone\, Android and
  Web apps\n- Development and release management processes\n- Recruiting 
 and hiring approaches\n\nSpeakers:\nPatrick Leonard\n	Bio: Patrick is re
 sponsible for iTriage’s overall technology vision and strategy\, produ
 ct software engineering\, and system operations. To this role\, Patrick 
 brings a broad range of software and technology leadership in software a
 pplications and infrastructure. His experience includes software design 
 and development\, architecture\, product management\, international mark
 ets\, public policy\, professional services and product marketing. He is
  a recognized expert in the areas of web & mobile application developmen
 t\, parallel programming\, and SOA\, and has written and spoken in publi
 cations and events for Sun\, Intel\, Microsoft and IEEE/ACM Supercomputi
 ng among others.\n\nPatrick also co-invented a patented implementation o
 f content-based message routing. Before joining iTriage\, he headed the 
 software engineering division at Axion Health\, and before that Rogue Wa
 ve Software. Prior to that\, Patrick created the Web and E-business prod
 uct line for J.D. Edwards (now part of Oracle) and designed and built cu
 stom enterprise systems for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting).\n\
 nHe serves on the advisory board for the University of Denver’s Colleg
 e of Engineering and Computer Science and is co-chair of the Public Poli
 cy Committee for Colorado Software and Internet Association (CSIA).
SUMMARY:Preparing for Rapid Growth - Tips for Enabling Your Rails App and
  Team to Grow Quickly
LOCATION:Room 615
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120424T103000
DESCRIPTION:I regularly write code that does something great but is slow 
 as a dog. Denormalizing / pre-computing / backgrounding are all fine\, b
 ut they're all an investment and they leave tentacles all through the co
 de. I want to be able to try out slow but very useful code in my app wit
 hout the friction of performance concerns\, but also without worrying th
 at my ops engineer is going to kill me in my sleep.\n\nWouldn't it be ni
 ce to add one line to our models that takes care of caching\, cache keys
 \, backgrounding\, dog-piling\, and cache warming? Oh\, and it should gi
 ve the UI clear consistent hooks so that it's clear whether the data is 
 ready so the UI can render a spinner or disable a feature until the comp
 utation is complete.\n\nWe'll take a look at a series of techniques that
  we use at PatientsLikeMe to allow us to safely and quickly put some ver
 y expensive queries on the website so that we can evaluate whether it's 
 worthwhile to create longer term solutions. The solution we've come up w
 ith is a lot of gloss over memcache and resque that makes it feel like w
 e can memoize any method in our application and lets us focus on the goa
 ls of the algorithms rather than their performance and architecture.\n\n
 This talk will feature: memcache\, resque\, a bit of metaprogramming\, a
  look at caching in the wild and code that fixes some usual problems\, a
 nd a fairly epic SQL query with some nice Postgres features you should k
 now about.\n\nYou should come if: you want to take a look at some practi
 cal solutions that we use in production to be able to roll out computati
 onally expensive features.\n\nSpeakers:\nJeff Dwyer\n	Bio: Jeff Dwyer is
  a Sr Software Engineer at PatientsLikeMe. He's the author of the book P
 ro Web 2.0 with GWT and he will buy you a drink if you tell him you've r
 ead it. Even if you're lying. Once upon a time he taught GWT at conferen
 ces from Las Vegas to Prague. If you delayed your flight from Java to Ru
 by because you were enthralled by one of these talks he will buy you two
  drinks. Jeff is a father of two and lives in Hanover\, NH.
SUMMARY:Patella: It's Memoization into Memcached calculated in the backgr
 ound with Resque.
LOCATION:Salon J
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T153000
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120425T133000
DESCRIPTION:You know 'em\, you love 'em -- five-minute talks by attendees
  on topics that they're passionate about. We'll have a signup sheet avai
 lable from the start of the conference\, so start thinking of ideas toda
 y!\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Nic Williams\n	Bio: Dr Nic is a developer’s develo
 per.\n\nHe writes blog posts for developers\; creates tools\, libraries 
 and text editor extensions for developers\; and speaks to developers at 
 conferences.\n\nHe’s the VP of Developer Evangelism at Engine Yard\, t
 he premier platform as a service.\n\nHe’s Australian and now living in
  the Bay Area.\n\nAnd he’s funny\; if you can understand his accent.
SUMMARY:Lightning Talks
LOCATION:Salon K
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T164500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T160000
DESCRIPTION:Over the past year\, Heroku has expanded by going polyglot an
 d supporting languages like Java\, Clojure\, Python\, Node.js\, and Scal
 a in addition to Ruby. In this session\, we will discuss major updates t
 o the platform and our emphasis on making the Ruby developer experience 
 even better. We'll leave plenty of time at the end for any questions.\n\
 nSpeakers:\nTerence Lee\n	Bio: Terence works at Heroku\, maintaining the
  Ruby stack and some OSS projects such as Bundler and Resque. When he’
 s not going to an awesome Heroku or Ruby event\, he lives in Austin\, TX
 \, the taco capital of America.
SUMMARY:A Polyglot Heroku
LOCATION:Room 615
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T111500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T103000
DESCRIPTION:New Relic CEO Lewis Cirne will lead a panel discussion with r
 epresentatives from some of today's most popular\, highly-trafficked web
  sites. With millions of uniques a month\, find out how these organizati
 ons are optimizing their Rails-based sites for mobile\, for unexpected t
 raffic bursts\, and for seasonality.\n\nSpeakers:\nLew Cirne\, Pitr Vern
 igorov\, Joshua Warchol\, Tim Sturge\, Jon Pliske\n	Bio: Lew Cirne\, CEO
  of New Relic\nPitr Vernigorov\, Senior Architect at Uken (gaming)\nJosh
 ua Warchol\, VP of Technology at Fanzter (ecommerce)\nTim Sturge\, Direc
 tor of Operations at Zendesk (collab/support)\nJon Pliske\, from Groupon
  (ecommerce)
SUMMARY:Not a Vendor Pitch: Real World Rails Apps at Massive Scale:: A Pa
 nel Discussion with New Relic\, Groupon\, Zendesk\, Fanzter\, and Uken
LOCATION:Room 615
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T121500
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20120423T113000
DESCRIPTION:This panel is made up of EY Support Engineers and Developers 
 and they are ready to answer your questions!  Want to know more about de
 ploying to the cloud?  What does PaaS mean to you?  What is the EY Stack
 ?\n\nSpeakers:\nEngine Yard\n	Bio: Sponsored by Engine Yard
SUMMARY:Engine Yard - The Cloud\, Application Support\, and You - Ask Me 
 Anything
LOCATION:Room 615
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