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RailsConf Day 1 – Links to slides and blog posts

kapil — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:19:44 +0000

This is the official link for all the presentation files, so whenever you are looking for PPTs , this is the first place

http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/public/schedule/proceedings

I really liked Arun Gupta’s post on Jruby on Rails and Sinatra.
Also, discovered Rack middleware for request rewriting.
Liked this starter for jruby on google app engine http://jruby-rack.appspot.com/
Robert Dempsey tutorial on rails basics was cool. You can find ppt and code samples here : http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2009/05/05/a-z-intro-to-ruby-on-rails-goodies/
There was a session on Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx by Christophe Lucas http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dg5gdk9c_9gp77bvfj
Another good session on internationalization of ruby on rails application by Chirtophe http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dg5gdk9c_20fg3dnhxv
There was a session on agile estimation but I couldn’t locate its stuff. http://twitpic.com/4l4q5/full
Here are notes to SproutCore tutorial http://sproutcore-rails.s3.amazonaws.com/solution.txt
There was a talk on chef – here is a github link of Chef Resources and Providers for deploying ruby web apps without capistrano

Please add any other userful links which I missed through comments. Looking forward for day 2. We are wearing black t -shirts with Vinsol printed in red.

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Why RailsConf at Las Vegas is a great opportunity for the community ?

kapil — Sun, 03 May 2009 04:01:14 +0000

Just few hours before start of rails conf 09 , people have started assembling in Las Vegas. Attendees reaching early are already finding themselves busy , I was following twitter stream of #railsconf and found some interesting tweets which you usually don’t find before a major tech conference :

: more than doubled my money playing blackjack tonight. #railsconf

:On my 27th hour and drunk with in Vegas! #railsconf

:any other old fights we can drudge up? Let’s turn RailsConf into a 1,000+ person free-for-all brawl.

:really excited for @railsconf – had 4 people tell me not to lose too much money. i wasn’t aware i had a gambling problem. (denial)

And , people opposing the idea of rails conf in LV will be very happy looking at these tweets but they miss a very major point which objo puts it beautifully and why our team at Vinsol is attending railsconf :

objo: But thinking about the event and all the friends I get to see and I’m stoked. Location really does not matter. Some of the brightest minds I know get together once a year in the summer. What gets discussed months ahead of time? #railsconf

As a part of rails community, I would appeal all of the people coming to railsconf09 to work hard and play harder . It’s an opportunity for all of us to show that we are one of the best community in the world with respect for everyone and some sense of humour. Looking forward to meet all of you

@the_vinsol

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5+4 = 9 Fresh Apps to Maximize your RailsConf 09 Experience

kapil — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:39:49 +0000

We will be again going to Rails Conf this year and are pretty psyched about meeting all the great developers in the conference. Here is a list of 5 apps(most related to twitter in some way) that I feel are pretty useful for any attendee :

Rails Conf TweetUps - A really cool app that lets you upload your conf schedule and and check who among your followers and friends are going to which sessions. http://railsconf.intridea.com/

RailsConf LiveStream – A great app to track rails conf through blogs, twitters, flickr and Youtube. http://live.blogblogs.com.br/stream/railsconf

Floxee BackChannel – A great way to follow the happenings of Rails conf from a list of 334 attendees http://railsconf.floxee.com/

Rails Conf Speakers – A list of all rails conf speakers who are tweeting http://railsconf.floxee.com/list/tweeting/session_title/.+

Conf Offers.com – This is our small app developed in last 24 hours. Idea is to aggregate and rate all the offers, jobs, discount coupons and freebies at rails conf 09. All the offers in this app come directly from YOU, the attendees. Why don’t you post the first offer now ? www.confoffers.com

RailsMaturityModel.com – This is not related to conf directly but is scheduled to launch in railsconf 09. Obie’s idea of improving the quality of rails service provider by exploring best practices considered atleast. www.railsmaturitymodel.com

Updates

RailsBridge – Its a great effort to create friendly and accessible ruby on rails community after recent incidents. Something positive is always good. http://railsbridge.org/

Ruby Roster - Aims to provide the best directory of Ruby developers anywhere https://www.rubyroster.com/about

Twipick - Its a real time search engines for pics . Try this link http://picfog.com/tag/railsconf

In case you have idea about more apps for railsconf’ 09, feel free to post comments here.

Catch you in Vegas. Follow Us on Twitter @the_vinsol

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