Last night it was my great pleasure to host the Lightning Talks session at RubyConf 2009. We had an amazing series of 20 talks that took just over 2 hours. The tech gremlins seemed to be off drinking somewhere and none of the presentations failed.Here's a list of all the speakers and...
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RubyConf 2009 Lightning Talks
RubyConf Schedule
The RubyConf 2009 schedule was just posted. As a public service, I have fixed it to be readable and to use, you know, hyperlinks and stuff. Enjoy.http://hasmanythrough.com/rubyconf2009/schedule.html(Apparently my planning for GoGaRuCo 2010 has me thinking it's 2010 already. Fixed the year. Sorry about that. Sigh.)
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Launching Ruby on Rails projects, the video
For those of you who didn’t make it to Rails Underground in July to witness my mind-blowing talk, Launching Ruby on Rails projects , it appears that Skills Matter has finally posted a video of it online. :-)The sound levels are really low… but hopefully you’ll find it helpful.You can also view the slides.Related...
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Slides from my Rails Underground 2009 talk
Hello from London!Am currently enjoying the talks at Rails Underground 2009 in London and had the pleasure to be one of the first speakers at the conference. My talk covered a collection of what our team considers best practices. Best practices that aid in the successful launch of a web application and covered a...
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FutureRuby!
Jon and I will be at FutureRuby this weekend (actually, I will be there, and Jon will be speaking).Say “hi” if you see us. I’m flying into Toronto Thursday for FAILcamp.
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Launching Rails projects, an open call for lessons learned
I’m working on my presentation for Rails Underground and was hoping to solicit a few tips from other people in the industry.Have you launched a Ruby on Rails application recently? Are there some things that you wish you had known beforehand?Mind sharing? You can email me with your story at robby+launchstory@planetargon.com. I’ll let...
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Speaking at Rails Underground 2009

It’s time to find my passport again…I’ve been invited to speak at Rails Underground, which is being held in London, UK from July 24-25th.My talk, which is tentatively titled, “Launching Ruby on Rails projects, a checklist”, will expand on several ideas that came out a previous article on the topic. Additionally, I plan to...
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It’s a wrap!
We're finally getting all our after-conference activities completed. The most exciting thing is that we just got our conference media online. We have video and audio recordings of the Golden Gate Ruby Conference technical sessions! Pivotal Labs sponsored the recordings, and is hosting them at pivotallabs.com/gogaruco - you can watch them there...
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Railsconf 2009 – Wednesday
Finally, here’s the last video I put together for Railsconf, summarizing the event. I’ll be working on my speaker video and hopefully have that posted sometime next week.View on Blip.tv
Thanks for Watching!
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Railsconf 2009 – Tuesday
Here’s my video covering Tuesday at Railsconf 2009. This time around I asked people to tell me about a Gem, Plugin, or Library they’ve used in the past few months that saved them time.View on Blip.tv
Thanks very much to “Keenan Brock”:http://twitter.com/kbrock, for putting together a list of the libraries that were mentioned:
* “cucumber...
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