Archive for the ‘conferences’ Category

Rubyconf, done(ish)

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Second day of Rubyconf (for most people; first day for me, unfortunately) is done, and that includes my talk, "All I Need to Know* I Learned by Writing My Own Web Framework (* about Ruby and the web)." This talk was a little different for me—it's something that I've thought ...

A Useful Presentation Tool

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

I've made a concerted effort to improve as a speaker over the last year and a half or so, and have relied heavily on some great websites and books in the process. Without making claims as to the current quality of my presentations, I would like to offer up one ...

And… Session Aftermath

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

My second session at Railsconf Europe ended a few hours ago, and marks the third time I've talked about Advanced RESTful Rails. This one went noticeably better than the tutorial (I'm thinking

Tutorial Aftermath

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

So, yesterday morning (0830 CET, 0230 EST) was my tutorial on resourceful plugins at Railsconf Europe. Other than flying through the material and running short, it went pretty well. We ended up writing a fair chunk of code semi-collaboritively, so I've uploaded that to GitHub (I've also updated it a ...

Advanced RESTful Rails, done

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

So I've been absent for a while - in no small part because I've been prepping for my Railsconf talk on Advanced RESTful Rails, which I gave yesterday. I've gone ahead and uploaded the slides here for interested parties, so feel free to take a look and leave comments or ...