Lightning Talks (Day 1)
summary
Five short demos promise concrete takeaways: how Teen Hackathons use Ruby and python with Codeacademy Labs to run cipher scavenger hunts and games and even accept Spanish prompts; a database checklist — run EXPLAIN row estimate, use pgtune, add RAM, separate disks, replicate and partition — and patch bash now; Go Code Colorado turns Socrata data into five real business challenges across five sites and three winners; use dashing + New Relic plus HTTPParty and send_event to drive a TV dashboard (Bible app noted at 154 million installs).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Teen Hackathons by Anna Fowles-Winkler
- 4:06Speed Up Your Deatabase by Starr Horne
- 8:11Go Code Colorado by Jessica Goulding
- 10:38Documenting and Exploring your APIs by Tim Schmelmer
- 17:07Dashboard Dashing by Jon McCartie








