BathRuby 2016
as the organisers put it
Situated in the beautiful British city of Bath, Bath Ruby is a conference for Rubyists of all skill levels.
who it's for
Ruby developers, open source contributors, engineering managers, tech leads, backend engineers, educators using Raspberry Pi
topics
Ruby method call resolution; polymorphic inline cache implementation; TracePoint benchmarking and tracing; Sonic Pi live coding; Raspberry Pi music education; Neo4j graph storage and Cypher; open source first-PR workflow; gRPC with Ruby and Go; layoffs and offboarding procedures; implicit bias in hiring
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How are Method Calls Formed? | Aaron Patterson | 49m |
Shows how Ruby resolves method calls from bytecode into C and claims a speedup by adding a polymorphic inline cache. Implements the cache as a short array (an… | ||
| Rocking Out In Ruby - A Playful Introduction to Sonic PI | Xavier Riley | 33m |
Sonic Pi combines Ruby with synthesis and samples and ships preinstalled on Raspberry Pi (uploader notes Raspberry Pi sold 8 million) and it gives a tiny API… | ||
| Lightning Talks Part One | John Cinnamond, Florian Gilcher, Chris Seaton, Andy Croll | 22m |
A rapid set of mini reports names concrete surprises and concrete fixes: a project pulls in 120 gems which unpack to 4,000 files and reveal 35,000 methods… | ||
| How NEO4J Saved my Relationship | Coraline Ada Ehmke | 26m |
NEO4J is presented with concrete details: a native HTTP console, an on-disk layout of fixed-size records (nodes ~9 bytes, relationships ~33 bytes), and an ACID… | ||
| Open Source for your Benefit | Courteney Ervin | 24m |
Advocates a goal-first, practical approach: pick a concrete aim, target a real project like the Annie reading application, and prefer installability fixes as… | ||
| The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequality | Janet Crawford | 36m |
Argues that implicit bias, not overt sexism, largely sustains tech gender gaps and cites measurable evidence: the Implicit Association Test shows pervasive… | ||
| Firing People | Zach Holman | 39m |
Describes concrete failures and fixes around layoffs: sudden offboarding after a sabbatical, HR acting to protect the company, lack of a PIP, and a rushed… | ||
| Lightning Talks Part Three | Adam Butler, Ed Robinson, Cheryl Morgan, Phil Nash, Peter Saxton | 24m |
One person reports running 230 days of daily open‑source contributions, experimenting with LinkedIn posting, trolling spam, travel and personal availability… | ||
| Lightning Talks Round Two | Christopher Turtle, Philip Szalwinski, Andrew Faraday, Nils Löwe, Matthew Bloch | 25m |
Five rapid reports: a DBpedia graph query using dbpedia SPARQL traces the Queen back to a sixth‑century patron saint of beer; a paraglider launch by winch with… | ||
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