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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| AI-assisted coding: practical lessons from small startups... | RubyConf 2026 | 2026-07-14 |
Company runs Stonehenge Rails monoliths serving 80,000 churches with a 100-person engineering team and uses Claude with per-user and per-project Claude MD… | ||
| From beginner to expert, and back again | RubyConf 2022 | 2022-11-29 |
Begins with Suzuki’s quote and claims that maintaining a beginner’s mind boosts creativity and catches long-standing errors; gives concrete failures like Air… | ||
| Applying Omotenashi (Japanese customer service) to your work | RailsConf 2019 | 2019-05-01 |
Argues that Omotenashi isn’t just nice rhetoric but a source of concrete practices: strict checklists like a definition of done, operational rigor that lets… | ||
| Lightning Talks | RailsConf 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Thirty tiny demos land as either useful tools or warm anecdotes: a hospital hand‑washing analytics mention and Ada Developers Academy 11% acceptance backing a… | ||
| Agile Contracts for Software Consultants | Philly ETE 2015 | 2015-04-07 |
Argues that consultants should use time-and-materials agile contracts instead of fixed-price scope, showing what clauses and practices actually shift risk… | ||
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