Videos tagged with Lone Star Ruby Conf 2008

I’ve noticed that when people try to improve the state of the art of software design, they try to think bigger: big patterns, big principles, discussions about classes and modules and components, layers and tiers. Last year I heard a talk called “Strategic Design”. But I’ve personally had a lot better luck thinking small. In this talk, we’ll explore just a few smal...

Having worked with RoleModel Software in Raleigh, NC, I’ve since moved to Tanzania, East Africa, where my wife runs a home for street children. I’m continuing to develop software for local organizations and have started pairing with a local guy who just graduated from university. There are a number of non-profits doing worthwhile work here, but most of them are too understaffed and ...

As a refugee of the cubicle jungle where the project status overlords patrolled the aisles, one of the most exciting aspects running a Ruby consultancy is using all the neat tools keep a virtual development team at cruising speed. This talk provides a quick overview for many of the (often free) tools available to distributed Ruby teams and how you can integrate them to improve communication and...

Support for Ruby in the NetBeans IDE is growing as well as use of NetBeans among Ruby and Rails programmers. What does it bring to the table that an editor like Emacs, vi, or Textmate plus a bunch of terminal windows doesn’t? This is a lightning tour of its pluses and minuses. Jeffrey L. Taylor Jeffrey L. Taylor has been programming for fun for 40 years and for profit for 35 years. From h...

Ruby Anvil promises to be the rails/merb equivalent framework for Ruby. By borrowing the ideas and knowledge accumulated from both frameworks, we can utilize Ruby to create yet another framework for developers and build desktop applications with ease, speed and beautiful code. In this talk I’d like to discuss some of my plans for the future of Ruby Anvil and what is currently being develo...

The General Systems Architecture Since the summer of 2007, I have been assembling my thoughts and programs on systems, machine learning, distributed programming, and problem solving in general. The meaning of these efforts, for me, is to 1) learn what I can about problem solving, 2) apply my education in formal systems, and 3) use these formal systems in solving real-world problems. What this l...

Merb is a web framework that leverages the lessons learned from Ruby on Rails is a lean, mean package. Retaining a focus on ease of use and convention over configuration, Merb also focuses on modularity, hackability, and overall efficiency. Join as as we take a jaunt through Merb’s core. First, we’ll walk through the basics of getting started. Then, we’ll talk about the philos...

The second keynote of the night was given by Matz on Ruby's "Past, present, future" I always find it hard to sum up Matz's presentations. They are funny, inspirational, and touching in a way that doesn't lend it self to summary. You come away with the feeling that this man really wants to write a language that will make you a happier person. Topics he discussed include: Why Ruby is si...

The first keynote was given by Evan Phoenix and it was about memes in the Ruby community. Apparently, the Ruby community loves a good meme. Dependency injection was a rash in 2004 caused by Java developers. DI wasn't needed, sez Evan, because of the very nature of Ruby (as you can define stuff as late as you like). Another meme: What's this called: class << self; self; end; metaclass, sin...

Author: Yukihiro 'Matz' Matsumoto, Dave Thomas, Evan Phoenix, Yehuda Katz, Glenn Vanderburg Moderated by: Hal Fulton