Ben Scofield

Lead Software Engineer at LivingSocial
Durham, NC

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Past Talks

• Break It Down 3.65

  Nov. 04 2011, Ruby Midwest 2011 3.89

• The Wonderful World of Heroku: 2011 Edition

  May. 18 2011, RailsConf 2011 4.13

• Building Cloud Castles

  Apr. 11 2011, LRUG - April 2011

• Great Developers Steal 3.93

  Apr. 08 2011, Scottish Ruby Conference 2011 3.76

• Thinking Small 4.05

  Apr. 02 2011, RubyNation 2011 4.03

• Open Source: A Call to Arms 4.40

  Mar. 24 2011, Refresh the Triangle's "Openness" 4.40

• Ship It

  Feb. 05 2011, Developers Developers Developers Developers

• Building Cloud Castles 4.52

  Feb. 02 2011

• Keynote 4.13

  Sep. 03 2010, Ruby Hoedown MMX 3.98

• Mastery or Mediocrity: You Decide 4.29

  Jun. 06 2010, Ignite Railsconf 3.84

• With a Mighty Hammer 4.15

  May. 06 2010, Red Dirt Ruby Conference 3.99

• Mind Control: Psychology for the Web 4.18

  Apr. 03 2010, DevNation Atlanta 2010 4.14

• Mind Control: Psychology for the Web 4.33

  Mar. 13 2010, SXSWi 2010 3.30

• The State of NoSQL 4.66

  Feb. 27 2010, Developer Day Durham 2010 4.15

• Motivating NoSQL 3.75

  Jan. 30 2010, Developer Day Austin 3.59

• NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases(?) 4.50

  Jan. 14 2010, CodeMash 2010 3.60

• NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases(?) 3.94

  Nov. 20 2009, RubyConf 2009 3.85

• Charlotte.rb - "Comics" Is Hard

  Oct. 14 2009, Charlotte.rb

• Comics and Difficult Domains 3.86

  Oct. 10 2009, Developer Day Boulder 3.63

• Refresh 021 — The Future of Data 4.48

  Sep. 24 2009, Refresh the Triangle 4.12

• “Comics” Is Hard: On Domains and Databases 4.01

  Sep. 12 2009, Windy City Rails 2009 4.01

• "Comics" Is Hard: Alternative Databases 4.33

  Aug. 15 2009, Developer Day Boston 3.98

• And the Greatest of These Is ... Rack Support 3.85

  Jul. 25 2009, Rails Underground 3.86

• "Comics" Is Hard: Domain Modeling Challenges 3.82

  Jun. 12 2009, RubyNation 3.66

• And the Greatest of These Is ... Rack Support

  May. 07 2009, RailsConf 2009 3.37

• Starting Up Fast: Lessons from the Rails Rumble

  May. 06 2009, RailsConf 2009 3.37

• Page Caching Resurrected: A Fairy Tale 4.00

  Apr. 14 2009, Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts' Group 4.00

• Page Caching Resurrected: A Fairy Tale 4.29

  Mar. 21 2009, Developer Day Durham 3.93

• All I Really Need to Know* I Learned by Writing My Own Web Framework 4.50

  Nov. 07 2008, Rubyconf 2008 4.16

• Advanced RESTful Rails

  Sep. 04 2008, RailsConf Europe 2008 5.00

• Better Living Through Resourceful Plugins

  Sep. 02 2008, RailsConf Europe 2008 5.00