GoRuCo 2014
2014-06-21
New York, United States
GORUCO ·
[GORUCO 2008, GoRuCo 2009, GoRuCo 2012, GoRuCo 2013, GoRuCo 2014, GORUCO 2015, GORUCO 2016, GORUCO 2017, GORUCO 2018]
who it's for
Ruby developers, Rails developers, web developers, engineering managers, developer educators, community organizers, qa and test engineers
topics
COBOL maintainability lessons; Raspberry Pi coding for kids; memory champion techniques; testing third party JavaScript widgets; designing programmer communities; edge caching for Rails apps; real-time web communication; bringing static types to dynamic languages; growing a tech community; business intelligence tooling with Rails; systematic debugging techniques; future of Ruby performance tooling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What We Can Learn From COBOL | Andrew Turley | 11m |
COBOL started as a practical 1959 spec for business ETL and claims lasting relevance rather than theoretical elegance the language enforces four divisions for… | ||
| Teaching Kids to Code on Raspberry Pi | Audrey Troutt | 09m |
A Raspberry Pi plus Scratch and simple electronics powers a hands-on workshop that is repeatable: 5 structured activities on GitHub guide students from… | ||
| Secrets of a World Memory Champion | Chris Hunt | 23m |
Teaches concrete techniques and measurable feats: uses the method of loci to store sequences, shows person-action-object compression to pack three cards into… | ||
| An Approach to Developing and Testing Third Party JavaScript Widgets | Nathan Artz | 12m |
Shows a concrete workflow: use a Ruby script to build and minify the widget, run a proxy to intercept HTML responses and inject JS into HTML responses so tests… | ||
| Designing a Better Programmer Community | Samantha John, Jason Brennan | 10m |
A visual iPad language called Hopscotch uses drag and drop blocks, curated art and a featured feed to change who joins programming. It runs as an app built… | ||
| Edge Caching Dynamic Rails Apps | Michael May | 28m |
Explains how to put Rails fragments at CDN edges using surrogate-key header binding and purge-by-key, uses pull CDNs (reverse-proxy edges) with s-maxage /… | ||
| Real-Time Communication for Everyone | Lisa Larson-Kelley | 34m |
Claim: modern browsers can do peer-to-peer video, voice and arbitrary data with no plugins. Demonstration shows a multi‑person chat room running in Chrome and… | ||
| Know Your Types - Bringing Static Types to Dynamic Languages | Michael S. Bernstein | 31m |
After several years of being a professional programmer, I realized that I didn't really know what I was doing, and decided to teach myself Computer Science… | ||
| Growing a Tech Community | Luke Melia | 12m |
Claims rapid growth: 1,100 members in just over two years and 49 events run, using a rhythm of monthly evening talks plus two smaller hacker hours, recruiting… | ||
| BI Tooling with Rails | Kahn Solomon | 10m |
A small Rails app called bi is open sourced at paperless post/bi and it replaces a thousand-plus nightly cron queries by letting non‑technical staff run… | ||
| How to Debug Anything | James Golick | 26m |
Starts with an actionable claim: you can debug anything by getting a third‑party view of runtime behavior, strace attach to a running Apache process reveals… | ||
| The Future of Ruby Performance Tooling | Aaron Quint | 37m |
Ruby 2.1 exposes hooks that make concrete work possible: rblineprof gives line-by-line relative timings but inflates runtime so it stays off production… | ||
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