News
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Videos
Most of the 2010 videos are now up and available at http://video2010.scottishrubyconference.com/. We’ll be adding more as the become available.
Enjoy.
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That's a Wrap
Thanks to everyone who came to this year’s conference, and hope you are having (or have had) a safe journey home.
Remember the Flickr tag is ‘scotruby’ and there is a Flickr group here.
You are encouraged to rate the sessions you attended on SpeakerRate. We will be sending out links to an online survey for feedback by email.
Hope to see you all again next year.
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Speaker Sponsors
Day 2 and we are in full swing. One of the things that makes the Scottish Ruby Conference possible is support from companies who cover the costs of sending their staff as speakers. Thanks to
- Scribd. Scribd is defining social publishing by enabling anyone to easily upload and share their work in any file format, changing the way people discover, share and sell long-form written content on the web and mobile devices
- New Bamboo. New Bamboo are specialists in web technology, currently with a taste for Ruby and HTML5.
- Hashrocket. Hashrocket is a full-service design and development firm that builds successful web businesses.
- Brightbox. Brightbox is Europe’s leading provider of Ruby on Rails hosting..
- EngineYard. Engine Yard provides automation technologies and services for Ruby on Rails, including Engine Yard Cloud, an application services platform for web developers and web teams.
- Averteq. Avarteq GmbH is a web development and hosting company specialized in Ruby on Rails and also provides a full range of services for all stages of development.
- EdgeCase. EdgeCase are software artisans who care about their craft, Extreme Programming, and Ruby to build software that changes the way you do business.
- Huesler Informatik. Developing software should not be hard. Let us help you to make the creation of software fun again. Even though we are specializing in creating web applications using the web framework Ruby on Rails, we can help to bring your existing software project back on track by introducing modern software methodologies and principles.
- CodeSherpas are a small consultancy in Northern Virginia, U.S.A. doing Ruby and Java work for Federal and Commercial clients
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GUEST POST - ConfConnect - VinSol
http://confconnect.scottishrubyconference.com/
Some basic features of the app:
1. Browse talks through categories : Some awesome talks are lined up for this conference but with parallel tracks, its difficult to find talks in specific areas.
2. Other events running in parallel : Starting from 5k run to code retreats to photo walks, there are a lot of events happening that will make your Edinburgh conference experience special. We have tried to organize them at a common place under other events category.
3. Create your personalized schedule : Pick sessions that really interest you and create your personalized schedule. There is a small pick link on every event.
4. Find who is interested in each talk : Finding people with similar interests in a conference is always a challenge. We have tried to find those people based on which sessions they have picked up for their
personalized schedule.5. Comments : If you want to discuss something about a particular talk, you can post a comment.
6. Rate talks and events : You can rate any talk after the talk starts.
7. Popular Talks : Based on number of attendees picking each event, we will probably be able to find out some popular talks and possibly plan accordingly, if required.
We have kept authentication through twitter. So in order to create your personalized schedule, or rate a session, you need to login through twitter.
The application is still in very early stage and is rough on edges and we are constantly working on improving it.
This small initiative needs your support.
=> Please explore the app and try to pick sessions that you are probably going to attend. That will help all of us to find who is going to each session.
=> Tweet about it so that other attendees get to know about the app.
=> Please send feedback
I hope you will find the app useful.
http://confconnect.scottishrubyconference.com/
Regards
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Badges
By popular demand, Mark Connell has produced some badges for this year’s conference.
Speaker badges:
http://scottishrubyconference.com/images/badges/src-120-speaking.jpg
http://scottishrubyconference.com/images/badges/src-240-speaking.jpg
Attendee badges:
http://scottishrubyconference.com/images/badges/src-120-attending.jpg
http://scottishrubyconference.com/images/badges/src-240-attending.jpg
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Le programme nouveau est arrivé
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Exceptional - Silver Sponsors
Thanks to the the people at Contrast who are our new Silver Sponsors on behalf of their new product Exceptional. Heres what they have to say about it:
Exceptional helps you find out about and fix problems in your Ruby apps.
When new exceptions occur, you’ll be notified by e-mail, SMS or Campfire. Similar exceptions are grouped together and sorted to help you prioritise your bug-fixing. You can view backtrace and occurrence information, make notes for your team, and send exceptions to third-party ticketing services.
“Exceptional is one of the most reliable web services I’ve used. It’s incredibly easy to install and keeps me in control of unexpected behavior in my applications.” — Geoffrey Grosenbach, PeepCode
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IronRuby and Rails
Introducing Eric Nelson and Edd Morgan from Microsoft. Edd has written a great guest post on Eric’s blog introducing IronRuby and including getting Rails up on running.
The post is here, and includes pictures of them both. They’ll both be around during the conference if you’ve any questions.
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Brightbox - Gold Sponsors
We are delighted to welcome back conference regulars and our hosting saviours, Brightbox, as gold sponsors. Brightbox’s John Leach will also be speaking on UNIX: Rediscovering the wheel.
And now that word from our sponsor.
Brightbox is Europe’s leading provider of Ruby on Rails hosting. Each Brightbox server comes with our proven Ruby on Rails stack, access to a managed MySQL cluster and our 99.95% SLA. The Brightbox deployment gem will help you get up and running in a matter of minutes!
Brightbox also provides management and support for large scale Rails deployments and Dedicated Clusters for companies such as MTV Networks, Channel 4 and ASDA.
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Charity Tutorial Details
You can find out about this years charity tutorials here
Spaces are limited.
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WE ARE SOLD OUT
All tickets have now been sold. If you didn’t make it, we’ll be recording as many of the talks as we can and will be making the videos available later this year.
See you in March!!
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Less than 15 tickets left!!!
We are almost sold out. Time is running out!!!
Don’t miss this years premier European Ruby/Rails conference :-)
You can register here
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Pragmatic Studio: Test Driven Development with Rails
During the week running up to the conference, Jim Weirich and Joe O’Brien will be in Edinburgh giving the first ever European Pragmatic Studio: Test Driven Development with Rails.
The Studio is being organised by gold sponsor, EdgeCase and we have agreed a sizeable 12% discount for conference attendees.
To get the discount code check the Conference’s Google Group or email paul [[at]] edgecase.com.
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Charity Tutorial Confirmed
We are happy to confirm that we have secured a venue for this year’s charity tutorial: Pollock Halls, our previous conference venue.
As usual, the tutorial will be the day before the conference – Thursday 25 March. This year there will be two parallel sessions: details to follow.
We will be asking for a donation to CHAS, the children’s hospice. Over the past two year’s we have raised roughly £10,000 for CHAS.
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Now Hosted on BrightBox(es)
Last week, on a train with flaky wifi, Alan posted the session list for the conference and forgot to add any caching. Our little rails app became a greasy hole in the ground and the server was so crushed, he couldn’t even ssh back on to fix it.
Alan’s been soundly beaten and the caching problem was fixed…however…
During the panic, Brightbox offered to host the site for us on a much more solid rig, which may actually have survived the cacheless frenzy, but we’ll never know.
We figured it would be silly to turn down the generous offer of a couple of load-balanced 1Gig servers in case Alan decided to pull the same stunt next year.
A big thanks to Brightbox !
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Platinum Sponsor - 55degrees
A big welcome to Scottish company 55degrees, who are our new Platinum sponsor. It’s great to have such prominent sponsorship from a local company. And now a word from our sponsor:
55degrees operate at the intersection of video, design & interactivity. Our goal is to empower great storytelling; by everyone! Our chosen development toolset is Ruby on Rails and Google Apps (we are Authorised Resellers). But we also like Cocoa, Android and other things that help make communication fun. We are growing fast and will be recruiting throughout 2010 – so we are keen to meet people interested in joining our team. Check out http://www.55degrees.co.uk/company/recruitment
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ELC Technologies - Silver sponsor
Welcome back to ELC Technologies, who have also sponsored the last two conferences. It’s great to see you again. And now, that word from our sponsor:-
Founded in 1991, ELC Technologies delivers the value of next-generation Web technologies to today’s businesses, harnessing the power of mobile applications, cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS). ELC Technologies’ leadership in agile software development processeshas brought success to business-critical implementations for clients ranging from Cisco to Tribune Interactive to LiveNation. The company is a worldwide leader in Ruby on Rails development and has pioneered dynamic language development across multiple platforms. Short iterations, demos early and often, and constant client communication regarding vision and progress are all part of the ELC promise and what makes them such a valuable development partner for Global 2000 companies.
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We Have a Program !
Choosing sessions this year was extraordinarily hard. We had more than 80 proposals and initially we planned on only 20 slots.
We added another track, bringing the total to three, so we were able to accept more than 30 proposals!
There were still so many proposals we couldn’t accept, but we hope those submitters will submit again next year.
This year, we’ve tried really hard to create a balanced program. Low and High level material, fresh and experienced, local and foreign presenters.
We haven’t organised a schedule yet, so we’re not sure which talks will be be on which days, or which rooms, but we thought you’d like to see the program as a work in progress.
We hope you’re as excited about this program as we are.
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Saturday night is party night!
We were so sad to finish last year’s conference that we have decided to extend this year’s with The Official Scottish Ruby Conference Party(*).
We will be laying on entertainment, food, and a bar on in the Royal College of Physicians’ Great Hall on the evening of the 27th March.
Hooray!
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LCN - Gold sponsorship
Big cheers for LCN as they join the ranks of our Gold sponsors. Here’s a word from them.
LCN.com are one of the leading domain registration and web hosting companies in the UK. LCN’s developers solely use Ruby on Rails to develop their web applications and show an active interest in the Ruby community. They are currently developing their Ruby Cloud Hosting infrastructure which is due for release in the 2nd quarter of 2010.
Additionally they are offering 10% off all new purchases to delegates attending the “Scottish Ruby Conference”. To receive your discount, simply use voucher code RUBYROCKS now at www.LCN.com.
