MountainWest RubyConf 2016
2016-03-21..2016-03-22
Salt Lake City, United States
[MountainWest RubyConf 2007, MountainWest RubyConf 2008, MountainWest RubyConf 2009, MountainWest RubyConf 2010, MountainWest RubyConf 2011, MountainWest RubyConf 2012, MountainWest RubyConf 2013, MountainWest RubyConf 2014, MountainWest RubyConf 2015, MountainWest RubyConf 2016]
who it's for
Ruby developers, library authors, software testers, engineering managers, devops engineers, community organizers, embedded systems developers
topics
Ruby method call formation; writing a test framework; test driven development practices; common security vulnerabilities; orders of magnitude scaling; Ruby for robotics; framework selection and lifecycle; self directed learning for developers; career second wind strategies; minimum viable conference organization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How to Build a Skyscraper | Ernie Miller | 44m |
Skyscraper history yields concrete takeaways for software: Equitable Life burned despite "fireproof" claim shows brittle assumptions; Otis safety hoist… | ||
| Orders of Magnitude | Davy Stevenson | 31m |
Humans are lousy at extreme scales: innate number sense up to four but counting and naming bigger quantities is learned and misleading. Optical and electronic… | ||
| Ruby is For Fun and Robots | Michael Ries | 36m |
Builds a roaming social robot by gluing together an iRobot Create base, a Raspberry Pi, a cheap webcam and batteries, runs motion/state code in Elixir (serial… | ||
| Surviving the Framework Hype Cycle | Brandon Hays | 35m |
Compares the Gartner hype cycle stages to real histories like Rails and Ember and claims you can map your role — pioneers settlers town planners — to whether… | ||
| Writing a Test Framework From Scratch | Ryan Davis | 32m |
Starts from assertions-first and implements assert (raising exceptions with caller-filtered backtraces), assert_equal, a float comparator using a 1/1000 delta… | ||
| Security is Broken: Understanding Common Vulnerabilities | Eileen M Uchitelle | 33m |
Understanding Common Vulnerabilities by Eileen Uchitelle The Internet is built on technology that was never meant to work together. Basic features in seemingly… | ||
| Sharpening The Axe: Self-Teaching For Developers | Aja Hammerly | 36m |
Clear, practical tactics for self-teaching: structured Coursera/edX courses (4–8 hours/week, set a schedule), small-group study with ~8 starters and 5–6… | ||
| TDD For Your Soul: Virtue Through Software Development | Abraham Sangh | 43m |
Claims that TDD’s red green refactor maps to self-improvement using the four cardinal virtues and gives concrete, testable steps: write failing specs for… | ||
| The Minimum Viable Conference | Kerri Miller, Jeremy Flores | 01h 04m |
Builds a two-day single-track 200-person, $55 ticket conference (Open Source and Feelings), funds it with sponsor checks (Honeybadger/star wrote seed checks… | ||
| How Are Method Calls Formed? | Aaron Patterson | 52m |
Claims a polymorphic inline caches patch that adds ~186 lines to MRI, instruments bytecode with tracepoints and Ruby vmstat, and measures against a large Rails… | ||
| Second Wind | Jamis Buck | 41m |
A maintainer of Capistrano (originally released 2005) loses taste then motivation, walks away from Capistrano and related libraries in 2008 and slides into a… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Bradley Shaffer | 49m |
Fast-paced miscellany with concrete takeaways: demos of RSpec features that test block yields using yield matchers and report multiple failures with… | ||
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