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Two Day Conference - April 22-23, 2006
Program Overview
In the last five years, software development has undergone a dramatic shift away from statically-typed, compiled languages and towards more dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby.
In the past year Ruby on Rails— a framework for quickly building highly interactive and robust web applications—has become the single most talked about framework in software. Rails also features built-in support for Ajax, which is the technology that provides the revolutionary rich user experience behind Google Maps, A9 and Writely.
If you’re a software developer who’s curious about the cutting edge and wondering what the noise is all about, SDForum and Ruby Central invite you to spend two days drinking from a ruby-colored firehose.
* Learn from the Early Adopters. New technologies involve risk, pain, and a learning curve. Avoid the most disastrous mistakes, and learn how to quickly reap compelling benefits by learning from the people who’ve been there.
* Understand the Enthusiasm. Experience the power of Ruby first-hand. Spend two days immersed in the world of Ruby and then decide for yourself.
* Hear From Founders who are Risking it All. Thinking about a new startup? Wondering if Ruby makes sense for you? Hear from founders who decided to bet the farm on Ruby.
Agenda
Check back often for updates
April 22
9:00am - 9:20am Greeting and Brief Announcements
9:30am - 10:30am Test Driven Development in Ruby and Rails using Zen Test - Ryan Davis
10:40am - 11:40am Rails 1.1 and beyond - Marcel Molina, programmer, 37signals
11:40am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Interfacing Ruby with Oracle - Hal Fulton, Broadwing Communications
2:10pm - 3:10pm The Contract - Rich Kilmer, President & CEO, InfoEther, Inc.
3:20pm - 4:20pm Stupid Ruby Tricks - Chad Fowler, Lead Developer, Naviance
4:30pm - 5:30pm Distributed Ruby: An Introduction and Overview - Eric Hodel, Seattle Ruby Brigade
5:40pm - 6:40pm MetaProgramming - Building Classes on the Fly - David Pollak, CEO, WorldWide Conferencing, LLC
April 23
9:00am - 9:20am Greeting and Brief Announcements
9:30am - 10:30am Behavior Driven Development in Ruby - Steven Baker
10:40am - 11:40am Scale With Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning for small to large scale Rails applications - Jason Hoffman, Chief Technical Officer , Joyent Inc.
11:40am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Create your own tools: Building DSLs with Ruby - Joe O'Brien, artisan, ThoughtWorks
2:10pm - 3:10pm CD Baby Converts from PHP to Ruby
3:20pm - 4:20pm RedShift: Mixing Ruby and C for high-performance hybrid system simulation - Joel VanderWerf, Associate Development Engineer, California PATH, UC Berkeley
For panel descriptions click here!
Speaker Bios
Steven Baker
Steven is a software developer from British Columbia, Canada. In addition to writing Ruby at his day job, Steven is the lead developer of RSpec, the behaviour driven development framework for Ruby. Steven has also contributed to, and is continuing to contribute to, several other Ruby libraries and extensions for both private commercial, and public open source use.
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. He has worked on and released coco/ruby, ParseTree, ruby2c, RubyInline, ZenHacks, ZenTest, and ZenWeb. He has not yet released BFTS, metaruby, or zero2rails but they are coming out RSN™. He was also talked into contributing to rubygems and maintaining rdoc; yes, he is a sucker for punishment. His presentation at RubyConf 2005 on ZenHacks was very pretty.
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler has been a software developer and manager for some of the world's largest corporations. He recently lived and worked in India, setting up and leading an offshore software development center. He is cofounder of Ruby Central, Inc., a non-profit corporation responsible for the annual International Ruby Conference, and is a leading contributor in the Ruby community. Chad is a contributor and editor for numerous books and is author of the recently released, My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job and the upcoming Rails Recipes.
Hal Fulton
Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science and twenty years of industry experience. He is the author of _The Ruby Way_, soon to be available in a second edition.
Eric Hodel
Eric Hodel has been using Ruby for over four years and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. He has presented twice at RubyConf, in 2003 on a web application framework called Borges and in 2005 on MetaRuby, a re-implementation of Ruby in Ruby.
Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman is the CTO of Joyent Inc and was a co-founder, with Dean Allen, of TextDrive Inc. Joyent Inc is a platform software and utility computing company that has a number of online applications and provides infrastructure to a wide range of other projects and companies. Jason has a BS and MS from UCLA, a PhD from UCSD and has backgrounds in cancer biology, bioinformatics, grid computing and collaborative applications.
Rich Kilmer
Richard Kilmer is the founder of Virginia-based software and services company InfoEther, Inc. His background includes peer-to-peer software, wireless web, workflow, and pen computing. His current development efforts involve building a commercial product with Ruby as a major component. He is an active member of the Ruby development community working on Alph, FreeRIDE, RubyGems, RubyJDWP, Jabber4R, and hosts RubyForge.org.
Marcel Molina Jr.
Marcel Molina Jr. is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team. He lives and works in Chicago for 37signals where Rails was originally developed while building Basecamp. His most recent project is Campfire, real time group chat for small teams.
Joe O’Brien
I am a developer with ThoughtWorks, an organization with a history of successfully building enterprise applications using Agile Development. I have spent my career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. My passion for open source technologies and development has been strong since I began my IT career. I am very active in the open source community and local users groups. Recently, I founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and have helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group.
My passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language. I am currently working on a book for the Pragmatic Programmers on Ruby and SOA.
David Pollak
David has been writing commercial software for 28 years in languages from 6502 assembler to Objective-C to Java to Ruby. David wrote Mesa, the worlds first real-time spreadsheet and the best selling spreadsheet for NextStep. David provides consulting services and his clients include HP, VeriSign, Chrysler, Swiss Bank/UBS as well as venture-backed start-ups. David's latest project, The Buddy System, provides real-time phone call distribution to on-call teams.
Joel VanderWerf
Joel's current work is in intelligent transportation systems research, ranging from wireless mobile network protocols and distributed vehicle-to-infrastructure applications to cognitive driver modeling and simulating the traffic effects of automated vehicle control. He works at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, www.path.berkeley.edu. He has used ruby in this work since early 2001, and is active in the ruby community, especially through the ruby-talk mailing list and open source projects. He has worked on RedShift since 2001.
Joel worked in a startup in the late 90's developing an object database engine in C++. He holds a PhD in math from UC Berkeley (1994) and an AB in math from Harvard (1989). He taught math at the University of Louisville in 1995-6.
Event Logistics
Location
Network Meeting Center
5201 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Directions
Price
Before April 1st
$199 SDForum Members
$249 Non-members
After April 1st
$219 SDForum Members
$269 Non-members
Program Chairs
David Black
William Grosso
Tom Hill
Mike Slinn
Two Day Conference - April 22-23, 2006
Program Overview
In the last five years, software development has undergone a dramatic shift away from statically-typed, compiled languages and towards more dynamic languages like Perl, Python, and Ruby.
In the past year Ruby on Rails— a framework for quickly building highly interactive and robust web applications—has become the single most talked about framework in software. Rails also features built-in support for Ajax, which is the technology that provides the revolutionary rich user experience behind Google Maps, A9 and Writely.
If you’re a software developer who’s curious about the cutting edge and wondering what the noise is all about, SDForum and Ruby Central invite you to spend two days drinking from a ruby-colored firehose.
* Learn from the Early Adopters. New technologies involve risk, pain, and a learning curve. Avoid the most disastrous mistakes, and learn how to quickly reap compelling benefits by learning from the people who’ve been there.
* Understand the Enthusiasm. Experience the power of Ruby first-hand. Spend two days immersed in the world of Ruby and then decide for yourself.
* Hear From Founders who are Risking it All. Thinking about a new startup? Wondering if Ruby makes sense for you? Hear from founders who decided to bet the farm on Ruby.
Agenda
Check back often for updates
April 22
9:00am - 9:20am Greeting and Brief Announcements
9:30am - 10:30am Test Driven Development in Ruby and Rails using Zen Test - Ryan Davis
10:40am - 11:40am Rails 1.1 and beyond - Marcel Molina, programmer, 37signals
11:40am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Interfacing Ruby with Oracle - Hal Fulton, Broadwing Communications
2:10pm - 3:10pm The Contract - Rich Kilmer, President & CEO, InfoEther, Inc.
3:20pm - 4:20pm Stupid Ruby Tricks - Chad Fowler, Lead Developer, Naviance
4:30pm - 5:30pm Distributed Ruby: An Introduction and Overview - Eric Hodel, Seattle Ruby Brigade
5:40pm - 6:40pm MetaProgramming - Building Classes on the Fly - David Pollak, CEO, WorldWide Conferencing, LLC
April 23
9:00am - 9:20am Greeting and Brief Announcements
9:30am - 10:30am Behavior Driven Development in Ruby - Steven Baker
10:40am - 11:40am Scale With Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning for small to large scale Rails applications - Jason Hoffman, Chief Technical Officer , Joyent Inc.
11:40am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm Create your own tools: Building DSLs with Ruby - Joe O'Brien, artisan, ThoughtWorks
2:10pm - 3:10pm CD Baby Converts from PHP to Ruby
3:20pm - 4:20pm RedShift: Mixing Ruby and C for high-performance hybrid system simulation - Joel VanderWerf, Associate Development Engineer, California PATH, UC Berkeley
For panel descriptions click here!
Speaker Bios
Steven Baker
Steven is a software developer from British Columbia, Canada. In addition to writing Ruby at his day job, Steven is the lead developer of RSpec, the behaviour driven development framework for Ruby. Steven has also contributed to, and is continuing to contribute to, several other Ruby libraries and extensions for both private commercial, and public open source use.
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis has been using Ruby since 2000 and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. He has worked on and released coco/ruby, ParseTree, ruby2c, RubyInline, ZenHacks, ZenTest, and ZenWeb. He has not yet released BFTS, metaruby, or zero2rails but they are coming out RSN™. He was also talked into contributing to rubygems and maintaining rdoc; yes, he is a sucker for punishment. His presentation at RubyConf 2005 on ZenHacks was very pretty.
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler has been a software developer and manager for some of the world's largest corporations. He recently lived and worked in India, setting up and leading an offshore software development center. He is cofounder of Ruby Central, Inc., a non-profit corporation responsible for the annual International Ruby Conference, and is a leading contributor in the Ruby community. Chad is a contributor and editor for numerous books and is author of the recently released, My Job Went to India (and all I got was this lousy book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job and the upcoming Rails Recipes.
Hal Fulton
Hal Fulton has two degrees in computer science and twenty years of industry experience. He is the author of _The Ruby Way_, soon to be available in a second edition.
Eric Hodel
Eric Hodel has been using Ruby for over four years and is a founding member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. He has presented twice at RubyConf, in 2003 on a web application framework called Borges and in 2005 on MetaRuby, a re-implementation of Ruby in Ruby.
Jason Hoffman
Jason Hoffman is the CTO of Joyent Inc and was a co-founder, with Dean Allen, of TextDrive Inc. Joyent Inc is a platform software and utility computing company that has a number of online applications and provides infrastructure to a wide range of other projects and companies. Jason has a BS and MS from UCLA, a PhD from UCSD and has backgrounds in cancer biology, bioinformatics, grid computing and collaborative applications.
Rich Kilmer
Richard Kilmer is the founder of Virginia-based software and services company InfoEther, Inc. His background includes peer-to-peer software, wireless web, workflow, and pen computing. His current development efforts involve building a commercial product with Ruby as a major component. He is an active member of the Ruby development community working on Alph, FreeRIDE, RubyGems, RubyJDWP, Jabber4R, and hosts RubyForge.org.
Marcel Molina Jr.
Marcel Molina Jr. is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team. He lives and works in Chicago for 37signals where Rails was originally developed while building Basecamp. His most recent project is Campfire, real time group chat for small teams.
Joe O’Brien
I am a developer with ThoughtWorks, an organization with a history of successfully building enterprise applications using Agile Development. I have spent my career as a developer, project manager, and everything in between. My passion for open source technologies and development has been strong since I began my IT career. I am very active in the open source community and local users groups. Recently, I founded the Columbus Ruby Brigade and have helped organize the Chicago Area Ruby Users Group.
My passions are Agile Development in the Enterprise, Ruby, and demonstrating to the Fortune 500 the elegance and power of this incredible language. I am currently working on a book for the Pragmatic Programmers on Ruby and SOA.
David Pollak
David has been writing commercial software for 28 years in languages from 6502 assembler to Objective-C to Java to Ruby. David wrote Mesa, the worlds first real-time spreadsheet and the best selling spreadsheet for NextStep. David provides consulting services and his clients include HP, VeriSign, Chrysler, Swiss Bank/UBS as well as venture-backed start-ups. David's latest project, The Buddy System, provides real-time phone call distribution to on-call teams.
Joel VanderWerf
Joel's current work is in intelligent transportation systems research, ranging from wireless mobile network protocols and distributed vehicle-to-infrastructure applications to cognitive driver modeling and simulating the traffic effects of automated vehicle control. He works at California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways, www.path.berkeley.edu. He has used ruby in this work since early 2001, and is active in the ruby community, especially through the ruby-talk mailing list and open source projects. He has worked on RedShift since 2001.
Joel worked in a startup in the late 90's developing an object database engine in C++. He holds a PhD in math from UC Berkeley (1994) and an AB in math from Harvard (1989). He taught math at the University of Louisville in 1995-6.
Event Logistics
Location
Network Meeting Center
5201 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Directions
Price
Before April 1st
$199 SDForum Members
$249 Non-members
After April 1st
$219 SDForum Members
$269 Non-members
Program Chairs
David Black
William Grosso
Tom Hill
Mike Slinn
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