Showing 12 videos tagged with aac2009
Acts As Conference 2009 Keynote - Dan Benjamin
Dan Benjamin is a software developer, user interface designer, and writer with over 15 years of industry experience in software development and interface design. Dan co-founded Cork'd, the web’s first social network and reviewing application for wine aficionados, which was later acquired by WLTV. He also developed a Ruby on Rails content management system for web design magazine, A List Apart, and built software for companies including MCI, Capgemini, Vitalsource, and Tupperware. Dan publishe... View More
Will Leinweber: Relaxing with CouchDB
Relaxing with CouchDB
Will believes that CouchDB, and other document databases, are going to continue to grow in popularity in the future, and it’s important that we as developers are familiar with it so we’re able to use it when appropriate. CouchDB is easy to get running and use so there’s no excuse not to have it in your toolbox. The goal of this talk is to get you excited about CouchDB, and help point you in the right direction. CouchDB and Rails will briefly discuss the background of Co... View More
Tim Rosenblatt: OAuth and APIs: Sharing your data without leaving your zipper down
OAuth and APIs: Sharing your data without leaving your zipper down
Everyone's had the problem of wanting to access and allow access to web services/APIs for extensions and plugins, but this usually means handling login credentials in plain text. Not many users like this, and those that do give their login and password out are compromising their account's security. OAuth is a solution to this. Designed by the people that created OpenID, you can let your users give permission for a 3rd-party a... View More
Bryan Liles: TATFT, The Layman's Guide to Getting It Right The First Time
TATFT, The Layman's Guide to Getting It Right The First Time
You've heard it a million times, "TATFT". So, how do you go from being someone who wants to test, to someone who actually tests all the time? Do you need a spiritual guide who can show you the intricacies of testing, and how it can make your code better? If so, you need "TATFT, the laymen's guide to getting it right the first time."
In this talk, I will go from evangelizing testing, to actually showing methods for making sure your... View More
Steven Bristol: How to make a Successful Rails App
How to make a Successful Rails App
This talk will focus on the tricks to making a successful app. How to choose what to say yes or no to. How to market. How to design. How to pick a team/partners. How to split the money. How/when to launch, what's the bare minimum needed to launch. What is "good enough." How to do customer service. What are good problems to have. How to plan for scaling. How to have good UI and how important is it. Lot's more.
About Steven
Steve is the co-founder and hea... View More
Acts As Conference 2009 Keynote - Nathaniel Talbott
About Nathaniel
Nathaniel's really just another coder. He was in the right place at the right time back in 2000 when he initially fell in love with Ruby, and the love affair continues to this day. An attendee and a speaker at every RubyConf to date, he's seen the rise of Ruby and has a deep understanding of the source and nature of its popularity. For the past three years he's been getting better at the business side of things by running Terralien, a Rails-focused custom development consulta... View More
rails.merge!(merb)
Discussion about the Rails 3 and Merb merge.
Guy Naor: Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails
Writing Multi-Tenant Applications in Rails
With the move to web based applications, the need to create multi-tenant applications grows all the time. The majority of the business applications require some form of multi-tenancy to serve multiple clients off of a single hosted application. There are many ways to provide that - from simple data differentiation using an account_id field, all the way to separate DBs per client. Each solution has its pros and cons and fits different needs. In this ... View More
Jon Larkowski: Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques
Testing as Communication, Real-World Techniques
This session covers how Hashrocket, an experienced Ruby on Rails consultancy, uses a wide range of real-world testing techniques and agile methodologies every day to satisfy client customer requirements. It will describe the life cycle of our testing workflow, from story capture to customer acceptance. This includes an overview of: fine-grained requirements gathering in "user story" form; how we manage stories and communicate transparently with... View More
The Grand Unified Theory...
A Critical Look at Fixtures
This one will be juicy. You'll just have to wait to find out more.
About Jim
Jim Weirich is the Chief Scientist for Edge Case, LLC, a Rails development firm located in Columbus Ohio. Jim has over twenty-five years of experience in software development. He has worked with real-time data systems for testing jet engines, networking software for information systems, and image processing software for the financial industry. Jim is active in the Ruby community and h... View More
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