Pictures from RailsConf 2011

I had a great time at RailsConf 2011, which took place in Baltimore, Maryland this year. Got the chance to meet and talk with a lot of Rails developers and passionate people. Always a good thing. I admit that I’m a Ruby Nuby, and quite a few of the talks were a little over my head, but in general there was a talk for everyone, no matter what skill level in Ruby/Rails. Also, a good thing. I noticed that Javascript was the common theme across the talks. In fact I didn’t do any Ruby programming/playing at all, just Javascript + HTML5.

These are the sessions I attended (or peaked into) plus some of my favorite pictures I took from each day:

Monday May 16 (Tutorial day) #

• Building Web Apps with HTML5: Beyond the Buzzword by Mike Subelsky (OtherInbox)
• Rails Best Practices by Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Andrew Smith (Envy Labs), Thomas Meeks (Envy Labs), Dray Lacy (Envy Labs), Christopher Green (Envy Labs), Mark Kendall (Envy Labs)
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial (AKA Intro to Rails - Part 2) by Michael Hartl (Rails Tutorial)

Sugar and caffeine break

Tuesday May 17 #

• Welcome by Chad Fowler and Ben Scofield
• Keynote (The Asset Pipeline And Our Post-Modern, Hybrid, JavaScript Future) by David Heinemeier Hansson
• Fat Models Aren’t Enough by Jeff Casimir (Jumpstart Lab) I super enjoyed this talk
• Mining Rails: Learning from Your App’s Lifeline by Michael Feathers (Obtiva) and Corey Haines
• Keeping Rails on the Tracks by Mikel Lindsaar (RubyX)
• Confident Code by Avdi Grimm (ShipRise LLC)
• 25 Deployment Tips in 50 minutes by Anthony Burns (LivingSocial), Tom Copeland (LivingSocial)

DHH opening keynote

My pic with Chad Fowler, rocking my Chicago Code Camp tshirt

Wednesday May 18 #

• Double Dream Hands: So Intense! by Aaron Patterson (AT&T Interactive) I came late to this one, part of welcome/keynote
• Inside Groupon by Michael Cerna (Groupon)
• Scaling with Friends by Geoffrey Dagley (Zynga with Friends)
• How to Handle 1,000,000 Daily Users Without Using a Cache by Jesper Richter-Reichhelm (wooga GmbH)
• Controlled Chaos: A Case Study Of Introducing Rails into An Operational NASA System by Dan Pilone (Element 84) and Jason Gilman (Element 84)
• Solving Performance Problems with Horizontal Scale (The Worker Pattern) by Ryan Smith (Heroku)

Thursday May 19 #

• The LivingSocial Story by Aaron Batalion (LivingSocial)
• Being Awesome by Corey Haines
• Code for America by Dan Melton (Code for America)
• Building Rails Apps for the Rich Client by Yehuda Katz (Strobe, Inc.)
• Closing Keynote (Craft, Engineering, and the Essence of Programming) by Glenn Vanderburg (LivingSocial)
• Closing Keynote (Optimizing for Developer Happiness) by Chad Dickerson (Etsy)

Free Schwag given away

Full album here

For official O’Reilly pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/oreillyconf/sets/72157626743161970 I’m actually in one of the photos, in the background.

Speaker Slides: https://railsconf.com/slides

Keynote Video and Other Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL379EA9290474C86C