James Edward Gray II
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where they keep going back
- RailsConf2 editions2012–2016
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on a stage with
- Nathan Longonce
who talks about the same things
- Craig Buchek11 talks
- Aja Hammerly31 talks
- Tom Stuart11 talks
- Ariel Caplan9 talks
- Jim Weirich18 talks
- Eleanor McHugh20 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| String Theory | ElixirConf 2016 | 2016-09-01 |
Explains how Elixir treats bitstrings, binaries and UTF‑8 strings, shows that bytes like 226 143 176 map to multi‑byte UTF‑8 code points, and demonstrates with… | ||
| Implementing the LHC on a Whiteboard | RailsConf 2016 | 2016-05-04 |
Argument: algorithmic thinking beats jargon; Big O helps find simpler solutions. Demonstrations use Ruby: hash-based linear set intersection, recursive… | ||
| Ruby 2 Jeopardy | LoneStarRuby Conf 2013 | 2013-08-11 |
A live Jeopardy‑style game called Peril quizzes everything that ships with Ruby 2.0: categories include syntax, core methods, the standard library and Rails… | ||
| Keynote – James Edward Gray II | Ruby Midwest 2013 | 2013-04-05 |
Argues code’s primary purpose is to communicate with the reader and shows concrete tradeoffs between quick spikes and long term design, claiming spikes often… | ||
| Ten Things You Didn't Know You Could Do | Aloha RubyConf 2012 | 2012-10-08 |
Forty two concrete Ruby tricks appear and many are demonstrated working live such as 42 tricks rather than ten, enabling tail call optimization to make deep… | ||
| Ten Things You Didn't Know Rails Could Do | RailsConf 2012 | 2012-04-23 |
Shows how to run a complete single-file Rails app and how migrations like `references`/`belongs_to` create the foreign key column, an index and the model… | ||
| Unblocked | RubyConf 2010 | 2010-11-11 |
Explores concrete tricks not theory: shows lambda-return indexing to make x[y] work by returning a closure that captures x and later accepts y, uses class body… | ||
| Module Magic | Lone Star Ruby Conference 2009 | 2009-08-27 |
Walks through concrete Ruby behavior: includes put modules between class and parent, include order reverses call order (BCD prints DCB), extend opens the… | ||
| LittleBIGRuby | MountainWest RubyConf 2009 | 2009-03-13 |
Shows a published Towers of Hanoi level built in LittleBigPlanet that actually works and explains the redesign choices to avoid objects snagging on doors… | ||
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