LoneStarRuby Conf 2015
2015-08-15
Austin, United States
[LoneStarRuby Conf 2011, LoneStarRuby Conf 2013, LoneStarRuby Conf 2015]
who it's for
Ruby developers, web developers, backend engineers, open source contributors, software testers, engineering managers, DevOps engineers
topics
authentication for websockets; binary protocol client in Ruby; framework selection and evaluation; open source maintainer lessons; test driven development practices; automated crash recovery; developer productivity and performance; teaching and mentorship in coding; software craftsmanship and ethics; developer culture and rituals
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Code Club | Saron Yitbarek | 25m |
Code Club prescribes concrete rules: pick 100 lines of code or a completable activity, meet as a team of about five with a consistent tour guide, and expect… | ||
| My Dog Taught Me to Code | Dave Thomas | 49m |
Thirty concrete claims boiled into 30 Reader's Digest style rules including a single design metric — good design is easier to change — and concrete tools: Ruby… | ||
| Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle | Brandon Hays | 34m |
Uses the Gartner hype cycle to decide which JS and back-end tools to learn now versus later, maps three concrete roles—Pioneers settlers town planners—to… | ||
| Authentication for Websockets | Tom Brown | 10m |
Demo shows togetherjs clients can be impersonated with two lines of code by setting another client ID and relaying actions as that user using a rube am… | ||
| My Year In Open Source : 10 Lessons in 10 Minutes | Kyle Rames | 10m |
A year and a half of full‑time open source work yields concrete habits: treat open source as different from internal work, respond within 24 hours to PRs and… | ||
| Shall We Play A Game? | Randy Coulman | 33m |
Uses Ricochet Robots on a 16×16 grid to show concrete tradeoffs: state space about 976.5 billion states, branching factor 9–20, and a rule that the active… | ||
| Building a binary protocol client in Ruby: A magical journey! | Trevor Rosen | 30m |
Rapid7 Metasploit developers build a pure-Ruby SMB library that parses and emits SMB v1/v2/3 packets, uses Wireshark to map wire captures to the spec… | ||
| Productive. Reliable. Fast. | Chris McCord | 45m |
Phoenix is an Elixir web framework that claims Rails‑level productivity with much higher throughput: real deployments report 180,000 req/s and migrations from… | ||
| Brisket Programming | Clark Barrett | 07m |
A concrete smoking technique appears: a trimmed, scored brisket rubbed and smoked on a Big Green Egg with pecan chunks and apple chips, held at 225°F indirect… | ||
| Crashing on Autopilot | Paul Stefan Ort | 09m |
Claims that cognitive biases like selection bias and the appeal to novelty actively derail projects, illustrated by personal anecdotes (buying Mandrake Linux… | ||
| TDD for Your Soul: Virtue and Web Development | Abraham Sangha | 13m |
Claims that applying TDD’s red green refactor cycle to character produces measurable change: write failing tests for self control, courage, justice, and… | ||
| The Soul of Software | Avdi Grimm | 45m |
Claim: software constructs and shapes shared reality, not just models it. Cited evidence: priming experiments where money cues reduce helping behavior… | ||
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