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- RailsConf7 editions2014–2023
- RubyConf4 editions2014–2019
- Rocky Mountain Ruby2 editions2015–2017
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| What if Shakespeare Wrote Code? | HalfStack Charlotte 2023 | 2023-04-28 |
Argues that Shakespeare encodes meaning the way good documentation does, using iambic pentameter and sparse direction so deviations signal intent (Hamlet’s… | ||
| Mentorship Panel | RailsConf 2023 | 2023-04-24 |
Panelists offer concrete practices: set expectations up front and co-create a short learning plan, timeboxed to an hour or two a week or an intense daily… | ||
| Mentorship in Three Acts | RailsConf 2023 | 2023-04-24 |
Claims a mentorship program needs three concrete parts: planning (set the outcome), practice (agree roles), and review (what did we learn). It names three… | ||
| Start a Ruby Internship | RubyConf Mini 2022 | 2022-11-15 |
A concrete blueprint: a replicable plan that claims internships increase team capacity rather than slow it, illustrated by Learn Academy’s we've done over 100!… | ||
| Don't touch that! | RailsConf 2022 | 2022-05-17 |
Demonstrates concrete debugging recipes: scaffold a todo app, load a local Rails gem via Gemfile path by git cloning the rails repo and checking out a release… | ||
| Game Show: Syntax Error | RailsConf 2021 | 2021-04-12 |
A live RailsConf game show quizzes crowds on concrete Rails facts and gives tangible prizes: a signed Aaron Patterson headshot, a not‑fully‑transferable NFT of… | ||
| Syntax Error Game Show | RubyConf 2019 | 2019-11-18 |
A live game builds a playable Tic Tac Toe grid modeled on Hollywood Squares, with contestants picking squares, experts answering and players agreeing or… | ||
| Mechanically Confident | TraversalConf 2019 | 2019-03-28 |
Claim: confidence comes from rehearsed routines and triggers not years of experience. Evidence: interns trip on familiar bugs until screen layout, editor color… | ||
| Mechanically Confident | RubyConf AU 2019 | 2019-02-07 |
Argues that confidence comes from repeated, specific habits rather than vague belief, and gives actionable steps: create a tiny routine, use a clear trigger… | ||
| Mechanically Confident | RailsConf 2018 | 2018-04-17 |
Argues confidence comes from rehearsed habits not pep talk, shows habit mechanics with Eugene Pauly’s preserved muscle memory, acting centers that yield five… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RubyConf 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Pick the bits that make new things or show real numbers: a demo of prebundler: 440 gems in 40s with 6m7s → 43s and an 88% speedup, a Neo4j example showing… | ||
| Yes, and... | RubyConf 2017 | 2017-11-15 |
Workshop claims that adopting Yes and—not just brainstorming words—produces faster recovery from mistakes, richer builds on ideas, and clearer team rhythm… | ||
| Pluck It | Southeast Ruby 2017 | 2017-10-05 |
Explains how small internal utilities become standalone gems by using bundle gem to scaffold a gem, moving code into a Lib namespace, adding a version file and… | ||
| Trust Me | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017 | 2017-09-29 |
Consultancy work claims trust is just operationalized certainty: the explicit claim is that short feedback loops and processes create predictable outcomes… | ||
| Difficult Conversations | GORUCO 2017 | 2017-06-24 |
Argues that difficult conversations improve when three concrete levers are changed: physiology language and focus. Gives a 60‑second breathing protocol —… | ||
| Keynote: Cult(ure) | GORUCO 2016 | 2016-06-25 |
Uses Tony Robbins’ six human needs to argue organizations actually pursue certainty and significance but should aim for growth and contribution, citing a… | ||
| Workshop / Taming Chaotic Specs: RSpec Design Patterns | Rails Pacific 2016 | 2016-05-20 |
Claim: large, messy specs get tamed by concrete refactor patterns and small tooling choices. Workshop refactors a real 9,000+ line spec down using Minimum… | ||
| What if Shakespeare Wrote Ruby? | Rails Pacific 2016 | 2016-05-20 |
Argues that Shakespeare creates meaning without stage directions, noting 1700 new word forms across 800,000 words and effectively no documentation, then maps… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Rails Pacific 2016 | 2016-05-20 |
Five-minute demos focus on concrete results: a comparison of helper/decorator approaches that ships lalala presenter gem to avoid activerecord magic; a health… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RailsConf 2016 | 2016-05-04 |
Forty five‑minute demos condense into concrete takeaways: a Docker‑based PAS portal is implemented in Rails; API versioning uses grape chain packaging… | ||
| Pluck It | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
Shows how tiny utilities — often under 100 lines or a single file — become reusable RubyGems, demonstrating the commands bundle gem → gem build → gem push, the… | ||
| What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby | LA RubyConf 2015 | 2015-10-10 |
Claim: Shakespeare embeds intention into language the way a DSL embeds domain rules — he coins 1700 new words, uses almost no stage directions and violates… | ||
| Culture (Only Three Letters Away from “Cult") | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2015 | 2015-09-23 |
Argument: culture is distinct from cult if concrete practices prevent control and addiction. Claims: culture requires a convening question — “how do we bring… | ||
| What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby? | RailsConf 2015 | 2015-04-21 |
Claim: Shakespeare’s craft maps to Ruby through domain specific language and expressive conventions, using iambic-meter analogies to show how small, repeatable… | ||
| Rapidly Mapping JSON/XML API Schemas in Ruby | RubyConf 2014 | 2014-11-17 |
Builds a Ruby adapter that turns a JSON schema into pure-Ruby instances that can consume modify and re-export JSON and XML, demonstrated against the Google… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RailsConf 2014 | 2014-04-22 |
A rapid-fire sequence of demos and claims: micro‑events announce a Ruby hackfest; benchmarks compare JSON, MessagePack and Protocol Buffers across Ruby, Python… | ||
| Workshop - Taming Chaotic Specs: RSpec Design Patterns | RailsConf 2014 | 2014-04-22 |
Don't you hate when testing takes 3x as long because your specs are hard to understand? Or when testing conditional permutation leads to a ton of duplication?… | ||
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