Zach Holman
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what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- RubyConf Au2 editions2013–2018
all 9 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
- Lee Faus9 talks
- Brendan O'Leary13 talks
- Scott Chacon20 talks
- Edward Thomson23 talks
- Neha Batra10 talks
- Enrico Campidoglio8 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| UTC is Enough for Everybody, Right? | Balkan Ruby 2018 | 2018-05-25 |
UTC alone is usually fine for timestamps but it misses scheduling edge cases: Samoa shifting the International Date Line (Dec 29→31, 2011) and calendar… | ||
| UTC is Enough for Everybody, Right? | RubyConf AU 2018 | 2018-03-08 |
Argues for storing timestamps in UTC everywhere but also persisting the full IANA time zone id alongside them, uses ISO 8601 for APIs, and recommends… | ||
| Firing People | BathRuby 2016 | 2016-03-11 |
Describes concrete failures and fixes around layoffs: sudden offboarding after a sabbatical, HR acting to protect the company, lack of a PIP, and a rushed… | ||
| More Git and GitHub Secrets | ArrrrCamp 2013 | 2013-10-03 |
Shows exact commands and workflows: deleting a remote branch with git branch -d local && git push origin :local, forcing a branch to win with git merge -s… | ||
| Git & GitHub Secrets | Nickel City Ruby Conference 2013 | 2013-09-20 |
Concrete tips and demos show up: specific git commands and flags, when they save hours and when they don’t. Covers merge strategies (including the patience… | ||
| How Github (No Longer) Works | RubyConf AU 2013 | 2013-02-20 |
Company updates a number of concrete practices: GitHub stays 60% remote, embraces staff-only feature flags and moves from fragile staging to dynamic branch… | ||
| Git and GitHub Secrets | Aloha RubyConf 2012 | 2012-10-08 |
Claim: GitHub is the largest Git and Subversion host and quietly exposes lots of practical shortcuts. Concrete items: add diff or patch to a URL for textual… | ||
| Unsucking Your Team's Development Environment | Barcelona Ruby Conference 2012 | 2012-09-08 |
Concrete fixes and numbers: every app has a one-liner install (script/bootstrap, script/ci_build) and a repo tool that pulls production-like data (replicate)… | ||
| How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub | RubyConf 2011 | 2011-09-29 |
Company workflow uses GitHub itself: keep one master and cut simple branches, with master is always deployable and 10–40 deploys a day so rollbacks and tiny… | ||
| A Documentation Talk | Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011 | 2011-08-31 |
Claims that GitHub adds docs to every method and that writing the README first — README-driven development — forces API clarity and saves time. Describes using… | ||
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