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Building Native Mobile Apps in Rhodes

In this talk from FutureRuby Adam Blum shows Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing apps with access to device features for all major smartphone devices.

Adam Blum
on Jul 23, 2009

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37:36
Crimes Against Humanity, Writ Small

The Milgram experiments revealed a number of exploitable weaknesses in human psychology. Matt Knox talks about those weaknesses, their exploitation, consequences, and aftermath.

Matthew Knox
on Jul 22, 2009

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25:47
Programming Life

Austin Che discusses DNA and reprogramming life to create a myriad of novel biological systems. Modularity, abstraction and standardization allow non-biologists design and build biological systems.

Austin Che
on Jul 21, 2009

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23:42
How Capitalism Saves Ruby From Corporatism

Nathaniel Talbott explains: the revolution isn't free. If the Ruby community doesn't want to have the life sucked out by soulless corporations it has to learn to take value and turn it into cash.

Nathaniel Talbott
on Jul 20, 2009

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21:28
Architecture & Design

Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology

In this talk from FutureRuby, Jesse Hirsh explains the history of Imperial California and the means by which its ideology infects everyone.

Jesse Hirsh
on Jul 20, 2009

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27:13
Terrible Noises for Beautiful People

In this FutureRuby session, Misha Glouberman has the audience make terrible noises and behave like a giant cellular automaton - among other things.

Misha Glouberman
on Jul 18, 2009

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Multicore Programming in Erlang

Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.

Ulf Wiger
on Jul 16, 2009

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Artisanal Retro-Futurism and Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism

The Agile movement gave unconventional people cover while they sneaked odd and productive ideas (like Ruby) into projects. Today, Agile is sick and this FutureRuby talk shows what’s gone missing.

Brian Marick
on Jul 15, 2009

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Three Years of Real-World Ruby

Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.

Martin Fowler
on Jul 12, 2009

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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter

In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.

Matt Aimonetti
on Jun 17, 2009

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50:10
Testing Your Presentation Layer

Yehuda Katz shows how to test a web app's UI using technologies such as Johnson (Ruby to Javascript bridge), jspec (BDD for Javascript), Webrat and others.

Yehuda Katz
on May 20, 2009

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45:13
The State of the DSL Art in Ruby

In this talk Glenn Vanderburg discusses what the Ruby community has learned about building DSLs, and shows how to build state-of-the-art DSLs without going overboard.

Glenn Vanderburg
on May 08, 2009

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