Nickel City Ruby 2014
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Keynote | Ben Orenstein | 28m |
A codecation is a short, focused trip where two or more people rent a house, code most of the day, and ship something by the end. Examples include a browser… | ||
| My Little C Extension: Lego Robots are Magic | Brandon Hays | 31m |
A hobby LEGO robot built on a Raspberry Pi and the BrickPi drivers becomes a Ruby-controlled robot by writing a C extension and packaging it as a gem. The… | ||
| Live Coding Music with Ruby | David Padilla | 21m |
A Ruby gem called banjo generates live-coded music by loading channel classes and calling their perform methods on an EventMachine timer, using a 0–15 sweeping… | ||
| Can't Touch This!: When Things go Wrong With an Appliance | John Yerhot | 24m |
A single-VM GitHub Enterprise image on 2 cores/8 GB runs fine for ~50 developers but fails at tens of thousands; customers generate huge diagnostic tarballs… | ||
| Concurrency for !Dummies (Who Don't Get It (...Yet)) | Kerri Miller | 33m |
Explains that MRI Ruby’s global interpreter lock keeps threads from running CPU-bound Ruby code in parallel (MRI 1.8 vs 1.9/2.x behavior), shows sleeping… | ||
| Services Taste Better in Small Disposable Cups | Sebastian Sogamoso | 34m |
Claim: designing services as small, independently deployable units reduces blast radius but requires concrete boundaries and ops work. Recommends following… | ||
| Learning From Failure | Meagan Waller | 29m |
Claims that praising innate smarts causes underperformance are backed by Carol Dweck’s classroom experiments: smart-praised students who then choose easy tasks… | ||
| Keynote: Multitudes | Sarah Mei | 49m |
Argues that Ruby has two engineering personas — application developers and gem developers — backed by a rough count of ~90,000 gems versus fewer than 150… | ||
| How To Not Be An Expert | Jen Myers | 28m |
Argues that common expert metrics—LinkedIn endorsements as metric and percentage skill bars—are unreliable, shows how those led to a misplaced WordPress… | ||
| Keynote: Abstractions Breed Intuition | Bryan Liles | 38m |
Starts by booting a Docker gcc container and typing an assembly "hello world" to compile and run — it prints "hello world" — then contrasts that with C, Ruby… | ||
| The Dilemma of Simplicity | Pablo Astigarraga | 26m |
Argues that simplicity means being able to understand it quickly, not hiding complexity; shows how hidden layers like many Rack middlewares force painful… | ||
| Aesthetics and the Evolution of Code | Coraline Ada Ehmke | 25m |
Claim: aesthetics in code are measurable. An unscientific September poll produces an aesthetic index across five interaction channels and six languages: Python… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 46m | |
A rapid-fire set of concrete demos and lessons: Ruby multiprocessing using fork, Signal.trap and IO.pipe with the claim that Ruby 2.1's copy‑on‑write makes… | ||
| Dancing with Robots | Julian Cheal | 30m |
By, Julian Cheal
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| How to be an Awesome Junior Developer | Eric Stiens | 26m |
Describes hiring and mentoring practices with concrete examples: a rescue Rails app stores ~100 attributes in a single text field called data, leading to two… | ||
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