Keynotes

James Edward Gray II

James Edward Gray II is the least qualified person to ever give a keynote at a Ruby conference. He hasn't written his own language, built a hugely successful technical publishing company or a source code sharing startup, or single-handedly written large chunks of Rails. James is just a programmer. Like you. Oh and he can totally find cute pictures to put in slides.

Obie Fernandez

Obie Fernandez has been hacking computers since he got his first Commodore VIC-20 in the 1980s. Obie has been evangelizing Ruby on Rails since early 2005. He travels the world promoting Rails. As CEO and Founder of Hashrocket, he leads development of large-scale, web-based applications, both for startups and enterprises, but he still gets his hands dirty with code.

Chad Fowler

Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world's largest companies and most admired software developers. He loves to program computers and, as part of his role as CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problems for customers in the Ruby language.

Schedule

Thursday

August 11, 2011

8:00-9:00 Registration and Breakfast
9:00-5:00

From Zero to Rails 3 (An Introduction to Ruby on Rails) Mattt Thompson, Lance Vaughn

Rails AntiPatterns: Best Practice Ruby on Rails Refactoring Richard Schneeman, geemus (Wesley Beary)

Being Correct is Only a Side Benefit: Improve Your Life with BDD Noel Rappin

Cuking, not Puking: Managing Cucumber in the Real World™ Keith Gaddis, Zach Moazeni

From Rails to Ruby Mark McSpadden, Scott Johnson

Design Eye for the Dev Guy/Gal Wynn Netherland, Adam Stacoviak

5:30-8:00

Opening Reception Sponsored by Twilio

6:30-

Open Sessions in available rooms.

Friday

August 12, 2011

8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:00 Speaker photo

A Dickens of A Keynote

James Edward Gray II

Main Room Pecan Room
10:00-10:45
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Misunderstanding

Glenn Vanderburg

11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00
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Rails 3.1 Whirlwind Tour

Ben Scheirman

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Exceptional Ruby

Avdi Grimm

12:00-1:00 Lunch
Main Room Pecan Room
1:00-1:45
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As a language, can we make Ruby on Rails as historically significant as Latin, Ancient Greek or Sanskrit?

Malcolm Arnold

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Ten Things I Hate About Ruby

Hal Fulton

1:45-2:30
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Practical Metaprogramming: "Modeling Thought"

Steven Harms

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Consuming the Twitter Streaming API with Ruby and MongoDB

Jeff Linwood

2:30-3:15
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Procrastinate your code: Do it later.

Zach Moazeni

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Accelerated native mobile app development with the Ti gem

Wynn Netherland

3:15-3:30 Break
Main Room Pecan Room
3:30-4:15
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The world runs on bad software

Brandon Keepers

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Much Ado About CoffeeScript

Mattt Thompson

4:15-5:00
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More DSL, Less Pain

Evan Light

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OPI (Other people's infrastructure)

Brian Smith

5:10-6:00 Speaker photo

Keynote

Obie Fernandez

6:30-

Happy Hour Sponsored by Spiceworks
At Cover 3 Restaurant and Sports Bar (right across the street from the conference center - 2700 W. Anderson Ln Ste #202)

6:30-

Open Sessions

Saturday

August 13, 2011

8:00-8:45 Breakfast
Main Room Pecan Room
8:45-9:30
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Blow Up Your Views

Jeff Casimir

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Beautiful Payment Systems with OAuth

Tom Brown

9:30-10:15
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The Ruby Racer: Under the Hood

Charles Lowell

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Getting started with ZeroMQ

Ross Andrews

10:15-10:30 Break
Main Room Pecan Room
10:30-11:15
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Javascript for people who didn't learn Javascript

Jesse Wolgamott

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Google Go for Ruby Hackers

Eleanor McHugh

11:15-12:00
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Testing Javascript with Jasmine

Tim Tyrrell

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State of the Art Telephony with Ruby

Ben Klang

12:00-1:00 Lunch
Main Room Pecan Room
1:00-1:45
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The Return of Shoes

Steve Klabnik

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The Ballad of Goliath, EventMachine, and MongoDB

Mando Escamilla

1:45-2:30
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Chronologic: you put your activity feeds in it

Adam Keys

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In the Loop

Lourens Naudé

2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-3:30
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Fog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cloud

geemus (Wesley Beary)

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Polyglot Paralellism: A Case Study in Using Erlang and Ruby at Rackspace

Phil Toland

3:30-4:15
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Building Virtual Development Environments With Vagrant

Mike Hagedorn

Five 8 minute Lightning Talks
4:15-5:00
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Cloud Foundry Deep Dive

Dave McCrory

Five 8 minute Lightning Talks
5:15-6:15 Speaker photo

Keynote

Chad Fowler

Venue

For the fifth year in a row, we're back at our familiar venue:

Norris Conference Centers
2525 West Anderson Lane
Austin, TX 78757

Hyatt Place offers shuttle service to and from Norris Conference Center.

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Hotel

Hyatt Place® Austin/Arboretum

3612 Tudor Boulevard
Austin, TX 78759

Phone: 512 231 8491

We're happy to announce discounted rates at Hyatt Place® Austin/Arboretum. Be sure and use special discount code GLSR2 when booking.

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