I met Matz, the creator of Ruby

Earlier this month, I attended the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin.

Yukihiro Matsumoto (Matz), the creator of Ruby, was there.  We got to meet and talk.  He is a very nice person.

Here is a picture of (from left to right) me, Matz, and Daya.

The previous posts are random notes that I took through out the conference.  I mainly took them for myself… but maybe they might be of interest to you too..

Merb - The pocket rocket framework

Yehuda Katz

jQuery, merb, datamapper

How not to build a service

LMR

Who is your customer?

What are you building?

What do you know about your customer?  how do you fit in their lives?  Pricing?  Marketing?

Build a good trial

target audience> trials > customer

Eating your own dogfood…

No integrated billing…

mperham@gmail.com

http://mikeperham.com

Ruby in the Computer Science Classroom

Speaker James McGuffee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

http://faculty.stedwards.edu/jameswm/

jameswm@stedwards.edu

Tips and Tricks for Tweaking and Using Ruby and Rails for a Distributed Enterprise Application

speaker: Francis Sullivan

Spiceworks overview

updating remote installations

performance of ruby

avoiding deadlock

extensions for adding and modifying

scanner tweaks

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JQuery

Live examples of jQuery: http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Live_Examples_of_jQuery

A Year of Innovation

with Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer

HPricot - good for scraping websites

doc = Hpricot(open(”")

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/hpricot01.html

Juggernaut - lets you do server push with rails

http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/

Ambition

create SQL statements

http://errtheblog.com/posts/63-full-of-ambition

http://ambition.rubyforge.org/

Prawn

- easy ruby based PDF generation

http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com/

http://www.rubyinside.com/prawn-ruby-pdf-library-987.html

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs

Capistrano

Ruby VMs

roo - spreadsheets

can open google docs!

http://roo.rubyforge.org/

http://rubyforge.org/projects/roo/

dtrace

skynet - map reduce for ruby

Data Fabric - easy chart data

http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/7/9/introducing-data_fabric

merb

Mack Framework

Sinatra - easy quick way to build web application

Webby - generate static websites - rake task to

shoes - dsl for generating GUI applications

Hackety Hack - help kids learn programming

redmine -

Pool Party

RAD - Ruby Arduino Development - electronics (build robots)

http://rad.rubyforge.org/

Adhearsion - builds astrics - Voip

Rack

http://rack.rubyforge.org/

create a web frame work with only interfacing with Rack…

passenger

github

Starling - a light weight server for reliable distributed messageing

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/events/ruby-sunday-scaling-twitter-and-other-lessons-from-mr-cook-001221.php

http://www.slideshare.net/Blaine/scaling-twitter

http://www.justinball.com/2008/08/18/using-starling-workling-with-ruby-on-rails/

Ruby EventMachine

http://rubyeventmachine.com/

http://rubyforge.org/projects/eventmachine

Thin - fast, fast server..

Ebb

NeverBlock - really fast web server for Ruby…

Ruby: Past, Present, and Future

Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

(creator of Ruby)

4,000 years ago we had one language (Babel)

That one language was “Fortran”

Hired by NaCl  - open source integrated

1999 - First book published

It should be “Rails on Ruby” since Rails is a DSL for the web built with Ruby…

Sometimes Smart People:  Just don’t understand the nature of ordinary brains..

Flexibility <–>Understandability

Ruby became “Enterprisy”

“There are under one million professional Ruby developer now and were projecting there will be four million plus by 2013″

Mark Driver, an analyst at Gartner (eweek.com)

Ruby focuses on programmers NOT computers.

Primary goal is to enjoy programming…

Matz: “I love meters”

Question from the audience: “Do you think you are learning how humans related to world by creating a language?”

Double-click to wow

Evan Phoenix - keynote…

Works for EngineYard - Rubinus lead developer (http://rubini.us/)

meme - an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation

alias_method_chain is AOP…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff

Zed Shaw

http://www.zedshaw.com/

PickAxe book online

http://www.rubycentral.com/book/

in the ruby community, ideas spread quickly.. Things change quickly…

Who doesn’t like it?  The Enterprise… They consider it dangerous… (could he be talking about EA?)

Ruby in the Cloud

Mike Subelsky

cofounder of “OtherInBox.com”

Rush = Ruby Shell

god.rb

Rufus::Scheduler

managing virtual servers using Pool Party..