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Rack Middleware
With Rack emerging as the standard for composing web applications and services, most recently with Rails adoption, an architectural shift is taking place. Learn how to create next generation web se...
Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Scripting languages offer unique challenges to compiler writers. Challenges to compilation include undefined and changing language semantics, and run-time code generation. However, optimizing compi...
LittleBIGRuby
LittleBIGPlanet is kind of an open source game creation engine for the PlayStation 3. There are two very important things we can learn from it:
* Creative problem solving
* Code reading
Thos...
FFI
MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and other ruby implementations. What is an extension developer to do? One for each? Enter Foreign Function Invocation. Rubinius and JRuby ship with a version of libffi, and the...
Wii Ruby: All work and no play just won’t do
The presentation will explain how to control Ruby applications using the Nintendo Wii game controllers. The Wii uses infrared cameras and acceleration detectors to send positional information over ...
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Sequel
Sequel is the database toolkit for ruby. This session will discuss the philosophy, design, implementation, and use of Sequel, as well as its history, current status, and future directions. It will ...
Wii Ruby: All work and no play just won’t do
The presentation will explain how to control Ruby applications using the Nintendo Wii game controllers. The Wii uses infrared cameras and acceleration detectors to send positional information over ...
The Building Blocks of Modularity
Many words of programming wisdom have been written to promote the idea of low coupling between modules. “Prefer delegation over inheritance”, “The Law of Demeter” are examples of these words of adv...
Rack Middleware
With Rack emerging as the standard for composing web applications and services, most recently with Rails adoption, an architectural shift is taking place. Learn how to create next generation web se...
Outside-In Development with Cucumber
Cucumber is a BDD tool that aids in outside-in development by executing plain-text features/stories as automated acceptance tests. Written in conjunction with the stakeholder, these Cucumber “featu...
Practical Puppet: Systems Building Systems
Server Configurations are often an afterthought. Configure the server once with Rails and get to the real work, right?
But what happens when there are 2 servers? 3? 5? 8? 144? Maintaining consis...
LittleBIGRuby
LittleBIGPlanet is kind of an open source game creation engine for the PlayStation 3. There are two very important things we can learn from it:
* Creative problem solving
* Code reading
Thos...
La Dolce Vita Rubyista
A talk interspersed with film about overcoming resistance, (re)discovering your passions, sustainable high performance, and enjoying your craft (Ruby and otherwise). Featuring clips from the featur...
FFI
MRI, JRuby, Rubinius and other ruby implementations. What is an extension developer to do? One for each? Enter Foreign Function Invocation. Rubinius and JRuby ship with a version of libffi, and the...
Compiling and Optimizing Scripting Languages
Scripting languages offer unique challenges to compiler writers. Challenges to compilation include undefined and changing language semantics, and run-time code generation. However, optimizing compi...
