Rails Conf '08: Day 2 — Friday, May 30th
8AM-9AM
Continental Breakfast (60 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
9:15AM -10:15AM
Welcome Keynote
Joel Spolsky (Fog Creek Software) {color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
10:15AM-10:45AM
Morning Break (30 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
10:45AM -11:45AM
Entrepreneurs On Rails
Dan Benjamin — Rails Machine
IronRuby on Rails
John Lam (Microsoft), Jimmy Schementi (Microsoft)
“Multi-core Hysteria”: FUD about CRUD?
Andrea O.K. Wright (Chariot Solutions)
10:45AM -11:45AM
Rails powered by GlassFish and jMaki
Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems) Sponsorship D135-136.
11:45AM -12:35AM
Surviving the Big Rewrite: Moving YELLOWPAGES.COM to Rails
John Straw (YELLOWPAGES.COM)
10 Things I Hate About Web Apps
Micah Martin (8th Light, Inc.)
Hosting and the Woes
Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Jamie van Dyke, Tom Mornini (Engine Yard)
Lightning Talks 
Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
11:45AM -12:35PM
Two Web Apps, Four Daemons and a Gazillion Clients
Steve Sanderson (FiveRuns), Rich Kilmer (InfoEther), Bruce Williams (FiveRuns), Adam Keys (FiveRuns), Brian Dainton (FiveRuns) Sponsorship D135-136.
12:35PM-1:50PM
Lunch (75 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
1:50PM – 2:50PM
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Modeling Systems
Jim Weirich (EdgeCase LLC), Joe O’Brien (EdgeCase, LLC), Chris Nelson (Christopher Nelson Consulting)
CRUD doesn’t have an ‘S’ in it: Managing complex searching in Rails
Stephen Midgley (Hutz.com)
Facebook Development and Performance with Rails
Mike Mangino (Elevated Rails)
Faster, Better, ORM with DataMapper
{color:#black} Yehuda Katz (EngineYard)
1:50PM -2:50PM
Deploy Rails Apps Faster than Brewing Coffee
Guy Naor (Morph Labs)%{color:#grey}Sponsorship D135-136.%
2:50PM – 3:40PM
Flexible Scaling: How to Handle 1 Billion Pageviews
TJ Murphy (SGN)
“Design Patterns” in Ruby
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
The Profitable Programmer: Creating Successful Side Projects
Geoffrey Grosenbach (Topfunky Corporation), Tom Preston-Werner (Powerset, Inc.), Chris Wanstrath (Err Free), PJ Hyett (Err Free), Ben Curtis (Catch the Best)
Remote Pair Programming: Impossible or So Possible?
Michael Buffington (Grockit, Inc.), Joe O’Brien (EdgeCase, LLC)
2:50PM -3:40PM
Rubinius – Under the Hood and Behind the Curtain
Evan Phoenix (Engine Yard), Brian Ford (Engine Yard), Wilson Bilkovich (Engine Yard)%{color:#grey}Sponsorship D135-136.%
3:40PM – 4:25PM
Break (45 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
4:25PM – 5:25PM
Microapps for fun and profit
Erik Kastner (Wine Library / Meta | ateM)
Podcasting and Screencasting in Rails
{color:#black} Gregg Pollack (Rails Envy), Ryan Bates (Railscasts), Christopher Haupt (Collective Knowledge Works, Inc.), Michael Slater (BuildingWebApps.com), Geoffrey Grosenbach (Topfunky Corporation), Mike Clark (Pragmatic Studio)
The Launch: Dos and Don’ts of Real Life Deploys
Chris Wanstrath (Err Free)
UI Design on Rails
Ryan Singer (37signals)
4:25PM -5:25PM
MagLev: Ruby that Scales
Bob Walker (GemStone Systems, Inc.), Avi Bryant (Dabble DB)%{color:#grey}Sponsorship D135-136.%
7:30PM
Meet the Sun You Don’t Know
Charles Nutter (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)%{color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom%
7:40PM
Ruby Heroes Award Ceremony
{color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
8:00PM
Keynote
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals) {color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
9:00PM
Friday Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)
D135-139, D141, E145-146
Following the planned sessions during the day, it’s time for RailsConf participants to take the floor. BoFs are informal conversations that you and other participants plan. Visit the BoF page for more details and to sign up to lead a BoF of your own.
What is good UI?
D133 – Moderated by Steve Bristol
Rails and Amazon Web Services
D134 – Moderated by Mike Subelsky, OtherInbox.com
Podcast Meetup
D135 and 136 – Moderated by Michael Slater, BuildingWebApps.com
Yui4Rails
D137
Pool Party: Autoscaling on EC2
D138
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Posted on Jan 06, 2008 by Kevin Milden
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