Rails Conf '08: Day 3 — Saturday, May 31
8AM-9AM
Continental Breakfast (60 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
9:00AM -9:15AM
Announcements
{color:#black} TBC {color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
9:15AM -10:15AM
Keynote
Jeremy Kemper (37signals) {color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
10:15AM
AM Break (30 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
10:45AM -11:45AM
Optimizing Rails
Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited)
Using Git to Manage and Deploy Rails Apps
Scott Chacon (Reactrix, Inc.)
23 Hacks, or, How Writing a Z80 Assembler Can Make You 10x as Productive in Rails
Nathaniel Talbott (Terralien, Inc.)
Assembling Pages Last: Edge Caching, ESI and Rails
Aaron Batalion (Hungry Machine LLC)
11:45AM -12:35PM
Scaling Rails
Blaine Cook (Independent), Bradley Taylor (Rails Machine, LLC), Ezra Zygmuntowicz (EngineYard), Jim Meyer (LinkedIn), Kevin Lawver (AOL)
Advanced RESTful Rails
Ben Scofield (Viget Labs)
Asynchronous Processing with Ruby on Rails
Jonathan Dahl (Slantwise Design)
Building a composite model in Active Records
Michael Latta (TechnoMage)
11:45AM -12:35PM
The Other mod_rails: Easy Rails Deployment with JRuby
Nick Sieger (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) Sponsorship D135-136
12:35PM-1:50PM
Lunch (75 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
1:50PM -2:50PM
Build Your Own Distributed, Self-Configuring Rails Cluster
Dave Fayram (Powerset, Inc), Tom Preston-Werner (Powerset, Inc.)
Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of Rails Testing
Dan Manges (ThoughtWorks), Zak Tamsen (ThoughtWorks)
Quick and easy custom servers using EventMachine
Scott Fleckenstein (Get Satisfaction)
Lightning Talks 
Short adhoc presentations from the audience.
1:50PM – 2:50PM
Heroku: Never Think About Hosting or Servers Again
James Lindenbaum (Heroku), Orion Henry (Heroku), Adam Wiggins (Heroku) Sponsorship D135-136
{color:#black} 2:50PM -3:40PM
Custom Nginx Modules: Accelerate Rails, HTTP Tricks
{color:#black} Adam Wiggins (Heroku)
Integration Testing with RSpec’s Story Runner
David Chelimsky (Articulated Man, Inc.)
JRuby on Rails in practice
Ola Bini (ThoughtWorks)
Small Things, Loosely Joined and Written Fast
Justin Gehtland (Relevance, Inc.)
2:50PM – 3:40PM
Streamlined Development of Dynamic, Database-Backed Web Applications
Shelby Sanders (CodeGear), Al Mannarino (CodeGear) Sponsorship D135-136
3:40PM-4:25PM
PM Break (45 mins)
Exhibit Hall E
4:25PM -5:30PM
What To Do when Mongrel Stops Responding to Your Requests and Ruby Doesn’t Want to Tell You About It
Philippe Hanrigou (ThoughtWorks)
The Great Test Framework Dance-off
Josh Susser (Pivotal Labs)
The Great Test Framework Dance-off
Skynet – A Ruby Map/Reduce Framework
Metaprogramming and Ruby Internals for Rails Programmers
Patrick Farley (ThoughtWorks)
4:25PM -5:30PM
Agile Development Demystified
Robert Dempsey (Atlantic Dominion Solutions, LLC) Sponsorship D135-136
5:30PM-7:30PM
Keynote
Kent Beck (Three Rivers Institute (TRI) {color:#grey} Location — Portland Ballroom
7:30PM
Saturday Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)
D135-139, D141, E145-146
Following the planned sessions of 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.
Let’s Make Music!
D138-139 – Moderated by Chad Fowler
Rails Named Routes in Javascript
D133 – Moderated by Steven Bristol, Less Everything.
Top Ten Ways Rails Annoys IT
D134 – Moderated by Steve Sanderson, Five Runs
Elastic Servers: Deploying Rails Virtualized
D135-136 – Moderated by Yan Pritzker of CohesiveFT
Asia on Rails
D137
Posted on Jan 05, 2008 by Kevin Milden
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