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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Predictable Mistakes of the Developer-Turned-Founder | Laracon US 2023 | 2023-07-19 |
Advocates starting with free content or low-friction one-time products (screencasts, ebooks, plugins) and using a stair-step path to full SaaS, proving demand… | ||
| Trust, but Verify | Southeast Ruby 2017 | 2017-10-05 |
Argues that Elm already delivers practical correctness: a NoRedInk codebase runs 100k lines, zero runtime exceptions in production; the Elm compiler drives… | ||
| Trust, But Verify (Programmatically) | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2017 | 2017-09-29 |
Claims that Elm’s type system cuts runtime errors with concrete numbers and examples: a company running ~100k lines of Elm reports zero runtime exceptions over… | ||
| TBC | BathRuby 2015 | 2015-03-13 |
Live-coding refactors a Ruby Invitations class that parses a CSV and sends mail, using Vim and RSpec to keep tests fast and green. The talk shows extracting a… | ||
| TBC | BathRuby 2015 | 2015-03-13 |
Live coding shows refactoring an Invitations class that parses a CSV of name/email pairs, sends mail via a Mailer, and has a private recipients method moved… | ||
| Opening Keynote | Nickel City Ruby 2014 | 2014-10-02 |
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… | ||
| Frequently Asked Questions | ArrrrCamp 2013 | 2013-10-03 |
Mentoring over 100 developers yields concrete answers: live coding that turns “bad code” into working code, a shell alias audit showing 953 g uses, a 10‑year… | ||
| How to Talk to Developers | RailsConf 2013 | 2013-04-29 |
Starts with 12 air squats and a live Law of Demeter enactment using volunteers to show how coupling breaks when a component is refactored, then demonstrates… | ||
| Refactoring from Good to Great - A Live-Coding Odyssey | RubyConf AU 2013 | 2013-02-20 |
Live‑coding refactors convert a messy orders report into short, named methods and a small public API by repeatedly running tests and keeping red/green cycles… | ||
| Refactoring from Good to Great | RubyConf 2012 | 2012-11-01 |
Lots of live coding that keeps the specs green while refactorings happen: extracting temp vars into query methods, moving date logic from collection into an… | ||
| Refactoring from Good to Great | Aloha RubyConf 2012 | 2012-10-08 |
Live coding refactors Ruby code into clearer objects and fewer conditionals: extracting an orders query, adding a DateRange value object, moving date logic off… | ||
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