Nickel City Ruby Conference 2013
2013-09-20..2013-09-21
Buffalo, United States
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Actually Invented Here | Flip Sasser | 25m |
Argues for rebuilding key pieces instead of blind dependence on gems, showing concrete pain: 13 gems -> 61 libraries (≈3.7 deps per gem) and a custom tool… | ||
| The Esoteric Library | Zachary Scott | 31m |
Walks through concrete standard‑library pieces: builds a working DRb chat server that actually passes messages between processes, fetches and parses an rss… | ||
| My KidsRuby Journey | Katie Hagerty | 08m |
KidsRuby is used to control a graphical turtle that draws shapes with explicit commands like turtle.draw, do-loops and angles (turn left 90), change pen color… | ||
| BIO 351: Getting Science done in Ruby | Jeff Hsu | 21m |
Sequencing costs fall from billions to under ten thousand dollars and projects like 1000 Genomes and dbSNP report 60 million variants in dbSNP and public… | ||
| Git & GitHub Secrets | Zach Holman | 33m |
Concrete tips and demos show up: specific git commands and flags, when they save hours and when they don’t. Covers merge strategies (including the patience… | ||
| Rebuilding the heart of the Ruby community in 60 hours | Sam Kottler | 25m |
A security breach forces rubygems.org to be rebuilt publicly and reproducibly; the team reconstructs the stack with Rails, nginx, Postgres, Redis, memcached… | ||
| It's Dangerous to Go Alone: Battling the Invisible Monsters in Tech | Julie Pagano | 28m |
Claim: imposter syndrome makes competent developers underestimate themselves, causing missed jobs, avoided talks and open source, poor pairing, and burnout… | ||
| Software Craftsmanship's Missing Link: Apprenticeship | Matt Gauger | 25m |
This gives a concrete playbook: a private GitHub checklist apprentices fork and submit pull requests to, regular pairing and weekly personal retros, and a… | ||
| RubyMotion and Accessibility | Austin Seraphin | 26m |
Claim: mainstream iOS plus RubyMotion makes accessibility practical and cheap; a set of mainstream apps replaces ~$3,600 of specialized devices for roughly… | ||
| Smash the Monolith: Refactoring into SOAs | Corey Ehmke | 29m |
Help us caption & translate this video!
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| Devs and Depression | Greg Baugues | 34m |
Claims that type II bipolar and ADHD run common in developers and that stigma kills get tied to numbers: about 5% have bipolar, one in three attempt suicide… | ||
| My 1st Song | Neal Sales-Griffin | 52m |
Built an in‑person coding school that teaches HTML CSS JavaScript design and product work, partners with 37signals and Chicago city programs, and claims 723… | ||
| Learning Together | Sara Chipps | 34m |
A group builds a flashing internet‑connected Christmas sweater using a LilyPad Arduino, LEDs and a LPD shield, stitches code and hardware together, and wins… | ||
| Why Developers Quit | Jeff Casimir | 49m |
Argues developers quit when esteem and self‑actualization vanish, not because of topic boredom, and shows remedies: shipping more, run retrospectives that… | ||
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