Cascadia Ruby 2012
2012-08-03..2012-08-04
Seattle, United States
[Cascadia Ruby 2011, Cascadia Ruby 2012, Cascadia Ruby 2013, Cascadia Ruby 2014]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Rubyist's Guide to the Canvas API | H. Dean Hudson | 33m |
Canvas is a 2D immediate‑mode API that can be learned quickly, but real work comes from patterns: run a custom game loop that uses requestAnimationFrame over… | ||
| Debugging Large Scale Service Oriented Systems | Andy Delcambre | 30m |
Proposes instrumenting every incoming connection with a request ID stored in a thread local, logging start/stop times and attaching the ID to exceptions… | ||
| The Science of Hiring Developers - Recruiting for Raw Talent | Nicole Maddox | 28m |
Argues that hiring for stable, measurable talents — striving, thinking, relating — predicts on‑the‑job success better than resumes alone, and tests it with… | ||
| Would you like to forget about the database? | Jesse Cooke | 30m |
Argues that Maglev on the Gemstone S VM gives transparent object persistence: Ruby objects live in a shared image, persisted via a persistent-root hash and… | ||
| Therapeutic Refactoring | Katrina Owen | 26m |
A 300‑line module with one huge method, no tests, running on a Cron job and manipulating temp files, FTP and EXIF data for JPEGs gets safety and clarity by… | ||
| A Taste of Prolog | Aja Hammerly | 34m |
A concise Prolog primer that demonstrates concrete results: uses facts and rules to model editor and keyboard matches and produces actual pairings via… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 45m | |
Thirty fast segments cover hiring, tooling, and process with concrete takes: a Heroku haiku machine serving JSON and a Hue bot adapter; an Engine Yard docs… | ||
| Quit Your Job. Srsly. | Shane Becker | 14m |
Argues that if failure were impossible the right move is to quit your job today, using a thought experiment that asks what’s really stopping you and an example… | ||
| Occupy Ruby: Why We Need to Moderate the 1% | Ryan Davis | 30m |
Argues for active moderation of Ruby spaces using specific actions: ban with impunity on IRC (10‑minute starts, escalate to lifetime), public shun… | ||
| DIY Standing Desk: Make a custom, rad looking standing desk | Jessica Allen | 22m |
Builds three functional standing desks from scrap and cheap parts: an IKEA Gallant legs + TV unit hack adjustable to ~35–45" using through‑bolts and big… | ||
| RubyMotion: Ruby in your pocket | Laurent Sansonetti | 30m |
RubyMotion brings Ruby to iOS by compiling Ruby into native machine code via LLVM so apps are statically compiled and run on the unified Objective‑C runtime… | ||
| Hungry Academy Panel | Matt Yoho | 01h 11m |
LivingSocial and JumpstartLab run a five‑month intensive that picks 24 students from ~700 applicants and pushes them through six-plus Ruby/Rails projects… | ||
| Above the Clouds: Investigating Systems from 32,000 ft. | Pat Eyler | 30m |
Three concrete case studies: load-testing with the Erlang tool Bench, a quick Bash hammer to spawn many Erlang VM workers, and a discrete-event simulator in… | ||
| Being Present | Gerry Lopez | 29m |
Guided visualization walks through surf prep—stretching, wetsuit chest constriction, lifting a waxed board, paddling hard through breaking waves—and makes the… | ||
| I know Kung Fu! (or neo4j on Rails without jRuby) | Justin Blum | 32m |
Shows how to use Neo4j with Rails (without JRuby) via the Neo4j REST API and Ruby wrappers like neography, architect and the homemade keymaker gem… | ||
| An Open Source Story | Mitchell Hashimoto | 30m |
Vagrant starts as a college project and grows over 2.5 years into a widely used tool for developing with virtual machines. Early metrics stagnate at ~500… | ||
| Ben and Shane's Fireside Chat | Ben Bleything, Shane Becker | 32m |
Origins story for the conference, plus operational details and honest failures: organizers budget a $30,000 venue, sign a room for 350 but end up with roughly… | ||
| nothing matches | ||