5 Dec, 2007
Back in July I attended the Advanced Ruby Studio in Reston, VA. At the time I had wanted to blog about it but my life suddenly became extremely busy and I left my blog to languish for several months. To rectify that, I’ve decided to write up this post providing an overview of the studio and my impressions.
The instructors for the three day course were Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler, two elite Ruby programmers (and excellent teachers). While I wouldn’t consider every topic covered during the course advanced, I will say that there was a good mix of intermediate and advanced content (and some of the advanced stuff was really advanced!)
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4 Mar, 2007
By the final day of the conference my head was about to explode with the amount of new information crammed into it. There were some great tips and tricks on the final day, but overall, I think the conference peaked on day two. Here’s a run down of the sessions for day three:
- Buried Treasure: Hidden Rails Tips by Dave Thomas
- The Streamlined Framework by Justin Gehtland
- Rinda and DRb by Justin Gehtland
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- Amazon’s S3 Web Services by Marcel Molina, Jr.
- Rake: Building Up Ruby by Jim Wierich
- Rails Production Tips and Tricks by James Duncan Davidson
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4 Mar, 2007
The second day of the conference was even better than the first, in my opinion. There were several more talks which I was eager to hear. Here’s an overview of the second day’s presentations:
- Creating Rails Plugins by Chad Fowler and Bruce Williams
- The Presenter Pattern by Marcel Molina, Jr.
- The Deployment Golden Path by James Duncan Davidson
- Testing Rails Apps by Stu Halloway
- Red, Green, Refactor by Jim Weirich
- Building View Frameworks by Bruce Williams
- Lightning Talks
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4 Mar, 2007
Recently, I attended The Rails Edge conference run by The Pragmatic Studio. It was a single track event with some of the best and brightest folks in the Rails and Ruby community. The speaker line-up was as follows:
Read on for a description of the first day’s sessions.
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24 Nov, 2005
Last Friday and Saturday, I attended the very first Pragmatic Rails Studio in Reston, VA. I highly recommend attending the studio to anyone interested in Rails development. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to take more time off from work and attend the Thursday session on Ruby (though I already know enough Ruby to be dangerous).
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31 Oct, 2005
I’ve received my confermation that I’m signed up (and paid up) for the sold out Pragmatic Rails Studio happening here in Reston, VA on November 18 and 19. I’ll post my thoughts on the studio around the week of Thanksgiving.
