Madison Ruby 2011
2011-08-19..2011-08-20
Madison, United States
as the organisers put it
Madison Ruby is a community conference that engages more than just our technical selves.
who it's for
ruby developers, web developers, backend engineers, software architects, devops engineers, open source maintainers, community organisers
topics
RVM and Homebrew package management; RVM spec testing across Ruby versions; RabbitMQ (AMQP) message bus; EventMachine amqp workers; Resque on Redis queues; queue_classic Postgres queues; API-driven JSON endpoints; Sinatra and Rails APIs; Backbone client frameworks; presenters and JSON templates; Memcached caching strategies; JavaScript parse-tree analysis
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Convenient Truth | Rogelio J. Samour | 10m |
Argues for no sudo in development and demonstrates the practical replacement: Homebrew on OS X and RVM to manage Rubies and gemsets. Shows that using sudo to… | ||
| MINISWAN | Bryan Liles | 31m |
This talk claims concrete outcomes: outreach plans to teach coding in schools, a kernel patch and a Linux sound driver accepted at 17, and WS widget library… | ||
| Ruby Messaging Patterns | Gerred Dillon | 18m |
Demonstrates replacing many brittle HTTP endpoints with a middleman message bus using RabbitMQ (AMQP) and a simple EventMachine + ruby amqp worker, showing… | ||
| Life on My Home Planet | Giles Bowkett | 37m |
A live folk‑hack tour of two built projects with concrete claims: Archaeopteris drum machine implements a 10×16 matrix of float probabilities to change beats… | ||
| Building the Great Wall: API Driven Applications | Scott Parker, Dan Melnick | 22m |
Argues for an API‑driven architecture that decouples client and server, shows a progression from tiny JSON endpoints to reusable abstractions and presenters… | ||
| Whose Wife are You? | Renée De Voursney | 22m |
Conference data and anecdotes make the issue concrete: tech workforce numbers show 25% women in CS and just 8% founding women at VC startups, everyday scenes… | ||
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