Lone Star Ruby Conference 2009: Program

Thursday

Room	Morning Training	Afternoon Training
1	Adam Bair, Pradeep Elankumaran, Paul Ostazeski Ruby Curious
2	thoughtbot Second Gear
3	James Edward Gray II, Dana Gray Moving to Ruby 1.9 Workshop
4	Gregory Brown, Brad Ediger Ruby Craftsmanship (Intermediate Level)	Gregory Brown, Brad Ediger Ruby Craftsmanship (Advanced Level)
5	Tim Harper Advanced Git	Tim Harper Beginning Puppet
6	Carl Lerche, Yehuda Katz Extending Rails 3 By Example	Glenn Vanderburg Beautiful Views: Cleaning Up the Messiest Part of Your Rails Apps
7	Rich Kilmer Introduction to MacRuby	Eleanor McHugh Things You Really Shouldn't Do With Ruby But Can

Time	Plenary
8:00- 9:00	Registration & Breakfast
9:00- 9:15	Welcome & Orientation
9:15-10:00	Dave Thomas Something interesting
10:05-10:50	Glenn Vanderburg Programming Intuition
10:50-11:00	Break
11:00-11:45	James Edward Gray II Module Magic
11:50-12:00	Gregory Brown Prawn in 60 seconds (x7)
12:00-1:30	Lunch
Time	Track 1	Track 2
1:30-2:15	Chad Pytel Succeeding with Rails	Fernand Galiana R-House
2:15-2:45	Mike Subelsky Ruby for Startups: Battle Scars and Lessons Learned	Mike Perham Checking under the Hood: A Guide to Rails Engines
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-3:45	Ian Warshak Rails in the Cloud	Larry Diehl Dataflow: Declarative concurrency in Ruby
3:45-4:30	Grant Schofield Walking in the Clouds	Jeremy Hinegardner Playing nice with others. -- Tools for mixed language environments.
4:30-5:15	Bruce Tate Rails, search engines, and faceted navigation	Dana So who wants to be a Munger?
5:15-5:30	Break
5:30-6:30	Keynote: Matz
6:30-8:00	Opening Social with light dinner
8:00-	Open / Self Organizing

Time	Track1	Track2
8:00-9:00	Registration & Breakfast
9:00-9:45	Evan Light TDD: More than just "testing"	Jeremy Evans Sequel: SQL in Ruby
9:45-10:30	Jake Scruggs What's the Right Level of Testing?	Jim Mulholland MongoDB And Ruby
10:30-10:35	Break
10:35-10:45	John Taber Sinatra: Not Just For Small Apps	Bheeshmar Redheendran, Weston Sewell Using XMPP4r for Application Messaging
10:45-11:30	Corey Donohoe, atmos think simple	Lightning Talks Sara Brumfield: "How to Get More Women (in Programming)" Gregory Brown: "Prawn" Dallas Pool: "HTML5 + CSS3" Mark McSpadden: "Coding Mentors" Tim Harper: "Spork"
11:30-12:15	Wynn Netherland Every Ruby commando needs a Compass	Brian Sam-Bodden Trellis: A component-event based Web framework for Ruby
12:15-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	Chris Selmer "A Journey to the Dark Side - from Rails programmer to Manager"	Joseph Wilk Outside-in development with Cucumber
2:15-3:00	Danny Blitz Herding Tigers - Software and the Art of War	Bernerd Schaefer Harbor: A Ruby Web Framework
3:00-3:45	Tom Brown, Rich Vázquez Using Insoshi to support Community Currencies	Lightning Talks Jared Ning: "Ruby Without Borders" Jeffrey Taylor: "Fast Multi-protocol XML Parsing" Eleanor McHugh: "It's only abuse if it crashes" Hal Fulton: "Reia: The next big thing" Yehuda Katz: github.com/wycaats/bundler
3:45-4:15	Break
	Plenary
4:15-5:15	Matz Q & A
5:15-6:15	Keynote: Rich Kilmer