Ruby on Ales 2013
2013-03-07..2013-03-08
Bend, United States
[Ruby on Ales 2011, Ruby on Ales 2013, Ruby on Ales 2014, Ruby on Ales 2015, Ruby on Ales 2016]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The End of Fun | Sarah Mei | 29m |
Claim: creativity and play measurably improve software quality, and grown teams must preserve habits that enable creative thinking. Evidence: use of… | ||
| Hacking Cognition | Jonan Scheffler | 39m |
Claims concrete: aim for eight hours of sleep because chronic short sleep degrades cognition, do six minutes of exercise after study to amplify primacy, prefer… | ||
| Services and Rails: The Shit They Don't Tell You | Brian Morton | 33m |
Yammer extracts pieces of a 300+ model Rails monolith into services, running 20 services in production and some handling over a billion requests a day. Expect… | ||
| How Ruby makes Better Beer | Andrew Nordman | 28m |
Claims a working Ruby-driven brewery control stack: recipe import and batch logging via brew lab and brewscribe, PID temperature control with tempur, and… | ||
| The Fourth 'R' | Davy Stevenson | 27m |
Argues for adding programming as a fourth R with concrete proposals: start logic and hands‑on activities in elementary, basic programs by middle school… | ||
| "You Can't Miss What You Can't Measure" | Kerri Miller | 35m |
Argues that specific metrics guide real work not feelings: static analysis plus dynamic coverage exposes pain, churn pinpoints volatile files, and complexity… | ||
| Get Your Ass to 1.9 | Nic Benders | 35m |
A concrete migration story: a large Rails app moves from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 by making Ruby selectable in production, using arbenv and bundler platforms, grinding… | ||
| - Dedication to David Ryder | David Ryder | 11m |
A memorial explains that a community member who moved to Bend to work at G5 and contribute open source is killed in a late‑night shooting the Monday after the… | ||
| Lightning Talks | 40m | |
A short set of lightning demos shows concrete outcomes not promises: a rake bisect gem finds leaking tests by halving the suite until one test fails and is on… | ||
| Everything I needed to know about open source, I learned from punk rock | Shane Becker | 36m |
Claim: punk DIY practices map directly onto open source practices and produce actionable habits. Examples include zines before blogs and demo tapes as minimum… | ||
| If it bleeds, it leads | Evan Light | 31m |
Argues Rails is drifting toward unnecessary complexity and proposes concrete fixes: use an edr repository to treat ActiveRecord as a simple data mapper (but… | ||
| `bundle install` Y U SO SLOW: Server Edition | Terence Lee | 45m |
A concrete post‑mortem: on October 17, 2012 rubygems.org disables the Dependency API after it soaks the site with traffic and CPU; Bundler 1.1+ had relied on… | ||
| The History of Women in Programming | Jessica Lynn Suttles, Elise Worthy | 31m |
History argues that women wrote the first programs and built early computing practice: Ada Lovelace authors the first program, WWII teams operate ENIAC as… | ||
| Ruby Systems Programming | Andy Delcambre | 30m |
Explains kernel vs user mode, shows Ruby calling syscalls and inspects system activity with strace revealing about 120,000 system calls for a single local… | ||
| Maintaining a large OSS project: war stories | Ryan Bigg | 29m |
Spree maintainer reports concrete changes and results: issue count jumps from 690 to about 2,630 after joining and February 2013 traffic spikes, commits go… | ||
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