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  • 4.8

    Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations

    November 12, 2010 10:05 AM

    Sarah will first demo some games created with Pie. She will then talk about the Ruby language features that make it easy (possible) to create domain specific languages and how they are used in Pie. She will also cover design considerations... why certain syntax worked well and other early de…

  • 5.0

    Sarah Mei 15 Recommendations Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations

    October 6, 2010 5:00 AM

    Learn about, build, and deploy a Ruby on Rails application in one day!Sarah Mei and Sarah Allen of RailsBridge will conduct a special "boot camp" to get new developers up and running on Ruby on Rails. Come with just your laptop, and by the end of the day you will have written and tested a wo…

  • 4.0

    Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations Alex Chaffee 1 Recommendation

    September 17, 2010 12:45 PM

    We've all learned that writing tests before code is a great way to develop software. It turns out that it's also a great way to learn how to develop software in the first place! In this talk we discuss a number of projects that have used test-first approaches to teach Ruby, including Ruby Ko…

  • 5.0

    Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations

    June 10, 2010 7:45 AM

    Search is a common feature on every website, but there isn't a single common solution, nor are there easy, comparable datapoints between the options. As a Rails developer, how do you choose the right solution? This talk will review Solr/Lucene, Sphinx and Postgres' new search features, the…

  • 4.8

    Sarah Allen 14 Recommendations

    November 21, 2009 6:15 AM

    Want to get into mobile app development with your Ruby skills? Or maybe you are already switching between Java, ObjectiveC and/or C++ to target applications to various popular mobile devices and you are thinking that there must be a better way... In this talk, Sarah Allen will share her ex…