Cascadia Ruby 2014
2014-08-11..2014-08-12
Portland, OR, United States
[Cascadia Ruby 2011, Cascadia Ruby 2012, Cascadia Ruby 2013, Cascadia Ruby 2014]
as the organisers put it
Cascadia Ruby is the regional Ruby conference serving the Portland, OR / Seattle, WA / Vancouver, BC area
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, backend engineers, devops and database engineers, security engineers, community organisers, programming educators
topics
Ruby benchmarking with benchmark-ips; Rails performance tuning; Postgres at terabyte scale; ActiveRecord pagination and partitioning; bcrypt password migration; WebSockets with Celluloid Angelo; Redis pub/sub for realtime; Teaching kids with Hackety Hack; Community meetup growth strategies; Design patterns in Ruby applications; Profiling with stackprof and allocation_tracer; Building civic-data APIs with ArcGIS
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Science of Success | Davy Stevenson | 35m |
Claims that applying the scientific method yields measurable improvements, demonstrates a Ruby tool benchmark Big O built on benchmark IPS, and shows real… | ||
| Cognitive Shortcuts: Models, Visualizations, Metaphors, and Other Lies | Sam Livingston-Gray | 30m |
Experienced developers use visual and linguistic shortcuts but those shortcuts carry predictable biases. The talk shows concrete tools — rubber duck debugging… | ||
| Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Unicode, Dates, and Names | John Feminella | 32m |
Concrete Ruby gotchas and fixes, not philosophy: shows Noël combining diacritic breaking length/reverse, demonstrates timezone pitfalls like 1:30am Nov 2 2014… | ||
| Biggish Data With Rails and Postgresql | Starr Horne | 26m |
Demonstrates that conventional ActiveRecord patterns break when tables hit hundreds of millions of rows and databases approach a terabyte of data, and gives… | ||
| Cloning the Seattle Ruby Brigade | Miles Forrest | 28m |
Clones the Seattle Ruby Brigade in 2009 to create the Fraser Valley Ruby Brigade, a rural club that grows to about 80 members and averages 3–5 people each… | ||
| N design patterns you might actually use | Aja Hammerly | 32m |
Clear claim: five concrete Ruby patterns are explained and shown working in real code — n = 5 — with production examples: reports refactored into a template… | ||
| Speed up Rails, Speed up Your Code | Aaron Patterson | 41m |
Benchmarks and profilers drive every decision: use benchmark-ips and ruby -d to measure iterations and hidden exceptions, sample with stackprof and inspect… | ||
| 80,000 Plaintext Passwords: An Open Source Love Story in Three Acts | T.J. Schuck | 25m |
A white‑hat attack recovers 80,000 passwords in 87 seconds using common tools like hash cat and large wordlists, showing MD5/SHA hashes and global salts fail… | ||
| Be Awesome By Being Boring | John Hyland | 26m |
Claim: choose stable proven tools unless a specific bottleneck demands otherwise. Examples: a postcard ingestion prototype fails to scale for Comcast network… | ||
| Programming in the Small - Teaching my 5 Year Old Ruby | Jason R. Clark | 31m |
Shows a concrete path: using Hackety Hack and Shoes (now available as a shoes gem on JRuby) to draw shapes, build a Star Wars demo, and fix a bug where a… | ||
| Creating a Chat App in 15 Minutes with Angelo | Terence Lee | 30m |
Claim: a working two‑way chat built in minutes using Angelo gem on top of Celluloid IO with Redis pub/sub and a tiny front end; demo deploys to Heroku deploy… | ||
| "Good luck with that": Tag Teaming Civic Data | Liz Rush | 24m |
A Ruby on Rails capstone claims a usable street-parking product built in four weeks by pairing; actual work uses the city ArcGIS map server, KML/ping overlays… | ||
| How Not to Be Lonely: An Extrovert's Guide to Working Alone | Jeremy Flores | 26m |
Remote work becomes sustainable with concrete habits not platitudes: cultivate a consistent, readable online voice via over‑communication; treat energy as two… | ||
| Nitty Gritty Service Building | Lauren Voswinkel | 28m |
Step-by-step method to rip a service out of a Rails monolith: pick a single responsibility, add active model serializers to control JSON, build client models… | ||
| Spaaaaaaaaace | Brad Grzesiak | 32m |
Claims concrete numbers like 29.6 megajoules per kilogram to reach orbital sideways speed and ~17,000 miles per hour for low Earth orbit, notes equatorial… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 01h 02m | |
Multiple rapid segments give concrete outcomes: a claim of a machine learning in Ruby book with code on GitHub and working examples (facial classification… | ||
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