Keynote – Adam Hooper
summary
Builds a small Rails web app on a Pentium-era server for an audience of eight users, adds search and docs, and instruments usage to discover that monitoring shows one heavy user and low adoption so the site alone fails to change workflow. Uses a Linux kernel boot parameter to work around 256MB RAM, finds short voting meetings to prioritize features, discovers manual data cleanup by locals is cheaper and better than complex SQL, and shows language and local contacts matter more than code.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Eight users and lessons
- 3:39Rails tool on Pentium 2
- 7:37Magazine delivery problem
- 11:35Language and cultural missteps
- 14:50Breaking barriers with early releases
- 17:36When scripting fails
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