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- RubyConf3 editions2014–2016
- RubyConf Au2 editions2014–2017
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- Sarah Mei24 talks
- Mercedes Bernard7 talks
- Ben Greenberg20 talks
- Vaidehi Joshi24 talks
- Glenn Vanderburg15 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Breaking the Chains of Oppressive Software | Ruby on Ice 2019 | 2019-02-22 |
Shows how specific systems skew results: Google Word2Vec embeds 3 million Google News words into 300‑dim vectors that reproduce gendered analogies; Google… | ||
| Keynote | Southeast Ruby 2017 | 2017-10-05 |
Examples of software that actually changes lives: Maya Android app — 50k–100k downloads, anonymous questions answered by experts within 48 hours; Bangladesh… | ||
| Impactful Refactors: Refactoring for Readability | RubyConf AU 2017 | 2017-02-09 |
Argues that refactoring for readability beats micro-optimizations and shows concrete wins: a 300+ line Backbone view gets split into small POJOs, a filter… | ||
| Becoming a Mid: Two Perspectives on Leveling Up | RubyConf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Concrete actions for getting from junior to mid: teach others and build side projects and open source; learn practical tools like SQL, TDD, pseudocode and the… | ||
| Becoming a MID: Two Perspectives on Leveling Up | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2016 | 2016-09-21 |
Covers concrete steps for moving from junior to mid: practicing by teaching others and side projects, using the Pomodoro Technique for focus, learning… | ||
| Impactful Refactors: Refactoring for Readability | GORUCO 2016 | 2016-06-25 |
Argues for concrete refactors: rename ambiguous instances to post_presenter so type is obvious, annotate methods that return epoch integers as… | ||
| Code, Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness | RubyConf 2015 | 2015-11-15 |
Claim: company culture drives attrition, not lack of entry programs, with 57% of women leaving and many never returning. Evidence comes from surveys… | ||
| The Struggle to Stay Technical | eurucamp 2015 | 2015-07-31 |
Fifty-seven percent of women leave tech and the transcript claims 57% of women leave with 97% never returning; research cited finds 88% of women receive… | ||
| Switch Up: How to Switch Careers to Become a Ruby Engineer | RubyConf 2014 | 2014-11-17 |
Background shifts to concrete steps and outcomes: built a rails app in one day and deployed it on Heroku, completes an apprenticeship at thoughtbot… | ||
| Becoming a Software Engineer | RubyConf AU 2014 | 2014-02-19 |
Shows concrete paths: attendees of RailsBridge and Rails Girls go from zero to deployed to Heroku in one day, San Francisco Ruby attendance shifts from 2% to… | ||
| Becoming a Software Engineer | dotRB 2013 | 2013-10-28 |
Argues that outreach workshops mentorships and apprentice programs are a legitimate path into software engineering and gives concrete evidence: a weekend… | ||
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