Rubyconf2012 recap

RECAPForrest Chang

OCRuby

Friday, December 21, 2012

DIDN’T SEE ANY OF THAT

20 TALKS

MOSTLY SUMMARIES

KEYNOTE

• What I thought it was

• Matz keynote

• Why I picked it

• You always see the Matz keynote

• What it actually was

• Another good Matz keynote

• What I got out of it

• Do things out of love. Go and change the world

ABSTRACTING FEATURES INTO CUSTOM REVERSE PROXIES (OR: MAKING BETTER

LEMONADE FROM CHAOS)

• How to break up your huge systems into smaller systems

• Why I picked it

• Always interested in service-izing systems. Better than the other choices

• Story of how NREL broke up their systems for the better

• Some tips and technology, https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE AT SQUARE

• How Square does SOA w/JRuby

• Why I picked it

• Interested in servicizing, expect Square to be pretty heavy duty

• The Square SOA creation process

• Great example of process - thorough, secure and “Document Oriented” and polyglot

• https://github.com/square/fdoc - document format and validation

• https://github.com/square/cane - code quality in the build

• https://github.com/square/jetpack - self contained Jruby app deployment

• Growing Object Oriented S/W Guided By Tests Steve freeman, Nat Pryce

RUBY MONITORING STATE OF THE UNION

• A survey of the current state-of-the-art projects available for runtime monitoring of production Ruby code

• Why I picked it

• Looked the most useful of the bunch. Could always use good ideas on better monitoring

• A survey, with a suggestion on how to unify to a central interface/process, vs. stovepiped monitoring apps

• hope for the future of monitoring

BUILDING DATA DRIVEN PRODUCTS WITH RUBY

• Building Data driven products

• Why I picked it

• Building Data driven products. Mentioned big data.

• Data driven products, definition and stages from a Data Scientist

• Steps, some tools. Aware of the non Ruby world wrt data driven products

WHY JRUBY WORKS

• Nitty gritty on how JRuby works and works well.

• Why I picked it

• Not certain, I’m already pro JRuby

• 1st of many “How awesome is JRuby” talks. Did show how it’s improved

• We should be doing more JRuby. It smokes even Ruby 2.0 in many areas

BUILDING MODULAR, SCALABLE WEB APPS? OF CORS!

• Cross Origin Resource Sharing(CORS) implications

• Why I picked it

• Best looking selection. Michael has written awesome gems.

• Overview on CORS and some examples.

• Food for thought

Y NOT -- ADVENTURES IN FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING

• Y-Combinator in Ruby keynote

• Why I picked it

• You always see Jim Weirich. Also interested in digestible y-combinator talk

• Jim defines and builds the y-combinator from the ground up using stabby lambdas

• Understanding of the y-combinator. Understanding of the origins of some javascript functional idioms

RUBY VS. THE WORLD

• A look at some other languages from a Ruby perspective

• Why I picked it

• See what the rest of the world is doing

• A comparison of Go, Clojure and Scala for the Ruby Eye

• I should look at Scala

REAL TIME SALAMI

• Aaron Patterson talk

• Why I picked it

• Aaron is always entertaining, and sometimes you learn something

• Salami steps and RT streaming in Rails 4

• Entertainment, Dtrace

RAILS IS A FOLLOWER: WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM DRUBY'S

METAPROGRAMMING MAGIC

• Explanation of metaprogramming magic behind Druby

• Why I picked it

• Looked more interesting than the others

• history and ideas behind the implementation of Druby

• A reminder I should use it again for certain categories

INSIDE RUBYMOTION

• Rubymotion overview and how easy it is to write an IOS app

• Why I picked it

• Objective C? nuff said...

• Overview of Rubymotion, and how awesome it is. How thin the layer is.

• Definitely should consider Rubymotion and Rubymine if building an IOS app. Rubymotion console is a beautiful thing

THE CELLULOID ECOSYSTEM

• Celluloid overview and ecosystem

• Why I picked it

• Concurrent programming is all ‘teh rage’. Celluloid seems to be the way to go in Ruby

• Celluloid overview and ecosystem

• Consider Celluloid, but it only runs in JRuby/Rubinius for real threads

LIGHTNING TALKS

• Lightning talks

• Why I picked it

• Lightning talks are awesome. Tons of stuff, no fluff

• Lightning talks. 40ish people signed, only 18ish got to go. I was #35

• wish they had gschool when I was young, @rubyhangout, twitter power tools, gitnesse, pursuit of happiness, machine creativity

THE INSUFFICIENCY OF GOOD DESIGN

• Stuff for good design exists, but it’s not enough

• Why I picked it

• Like good design, want to know what else there to make a successful project

• An awesome talk about how software mirrors the culture of it’s creators and how disfunctions culturally are represented in the code

• Fix your culture

TESTING SHOULD BE FUN

• How to make testing fun again after you have huge long running test suites

• Why I picked it

• looking for those sort of tips to improve our test suites. Noel’s online writings are good

• Assorted tips, but not super for, or super well put together

• Joy is key. A list of practices

INTERFACE TESTING: CREATING A DIABLO 3 BOT USING JRUBY AND SIKULI

• How to solve hard Interface testing and making a Diablo 3 bot

• Why I picked it

• Hard interface testing

• How awesome running Sikuli w/JRuby is, w/a great building a bot story line

• JRuby + Sikuli FTW

BOUNDARIES

• Study of test and class boundaries in light of mocks.

• Why I picked it

• testing boundaries always an issue, wanted to see Gary Bernhardt

• Presentation of a thoughtful approach. Good ideas there, unfortunately, not to be easily plugged into Rails

• Ideas, I should check out the current state of DCI in ruby

THINKING IN OBJECTS

• The right perspective of what is OO from a veteran smalltalker

• Why I picked it

• You can’t ever be too good at fundamentals

• OO 101. I was expecting more

• a review of OO

AN INTIMATE CHAT WITH MATZ

• Evan Phoenix’s reboot of the Matz Q/A in a “Larry King” format

• Why I picked it

• You always see the Matz Q/A

• A Matz Q/A with just Evan asking collated questions

• Matz prefers that the community decide

TALKS I HEARD WERE GOOD, BUT DIDN’T SEE

•XIKI - the Rubyfied next generation Shell Console

•Refactoring from Good to Great

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