Announcement

LA Ruby Conference 2009

This is the inaugural year for LA Ruby Conference. Come and join us to learn more about ruby and related technologies and practices that might interest you.

April 4, 2009
Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, CA

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Schedule

The schedule for the conference is:

Time Presentation / Activity Presenter(s)
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast  
9:00 - 9:10 Introduction JR Fent, Coby Randquist
9:10 - 9:40 Waves Dan Yoder
9:40 - 9:45 Break (5 minutes)  
9:45 - 10:15 Journey through a pointy forest: The state of XML parsing in Ruby Aaron Patterson
10:15 - 10:20 Break (5 minutes)  
10:20 - 10:50 Sequel Jeremy Evans
10:50 - 11:05 Break (15 minutes)  
11:05 - 11:35 Herding Tigers - Software Development and the Art of War Danny Blitz
11:35 - 11:40 Break (5 minutes)  
11:40 - 12:10 Working Effectively with Legacy Rails Code Pat Madox
12:10 - 12:15 Break (5 minutes)
12:15 - 12:45 Scaling "most popular" lists: a plugin solution Wolfram Arnold
12:45 - 1:40 Lunch
1:40 - 2:10 Sinatra: The ultimate rack citizen Blake Mizerany
2:15 - 2:45 Pool Party Ari Lerner, Michael Fairchild
2:45 - 2:50 Break (5 minutes)
2:50 - 3:20 Managing Ruby on Rails for High Performance Lewis Cirne
3:20 - 3:25 Break (5 minutes)
3:25 - 3:55 Flying Robot: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Ruby and Arduino Damen Evans, Ron Evans
3:55 - 4:10 Break (15 minutes)  
4:10 - 4:40 Johnson John Barnette
4:40 - 4:45 Break (5 minutes)  
04:45 - 5:15 Fast and Saclable Front/Back-end Services using Ruby, Rails and XMPP Pradeep Elankumaran
5:15 - 5:20 Break (5 minutes)  
5:20 - 5:50 Mobilize your Rails Application Brendan Lim
5:50 - 6:05 Break (15 minutes)  
6:05 - 6:35 Rhodes Framework for Mobile Client Development Adam Blum
6:35 - 6:40 Break (5 minutes)  
6:40 - 7:25 Keynote Jim Weirich
7:25 - 7:30 Conference Wrap-Up JR Fent