Gogaruco Blog Posts

• One-stop media shop

  When Leah Silber and I first sat down to talk about putting on Golden Gate Ruby Conference, there were a...

• Golden Gate Ruby Conf '09 - Showing up

  The first annual Golden Gate Ruby Conference is about to begin! People are gradually arriving and the hall is filling...

• Golden Gate Ruby Conference '09 - Intro and announcements, schedule, amenities

  Josh and Leah are making announcements and kicking things off. There is a great schedule lined up People are here...

• Golden Gate Ruby Conference '09 - Swedish American Hall

  Here's a couple more pictures of the venue filling up. The Swedish American Hall is a very cool venue. The...

• GogaRuCo talk: MacRuby & HotCocoa

  The first talk of the conference is by Rich Kilmer on MacRuby & HotCocoa. He's starting out by talking about...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Sinatra: The Framework Within - Aaron Quint

  Aaron starts out with a really bad joke about 'eyhelp', which puts him in good standing with me, at least...

• Playing With Fire: Running Uploaded Ruby Code in a Sandbox - David Stevenson

  Playing With Fire: Running Uploaded Ruby Code in a Sandbox - David Stevenson Intro It is still new, but we...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - TrustTheVote: Open Source Digital Voting - Gregory Miller

  Links Open Source Digital Voting Trust The Vote What OSDV means to me personally I personally am really excited about...

• GoGaRuCo 09 - Lunch Friday

  Yay Cookies!

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Sarah Allen is live-blogging

  Sarah Allen is also live-blogging the conference at www.ultrasaurus.com Thanks Sarah!

• GoGaRuCo 09 - There Will Be Ruby! - Hampton Catlin

  There Will Be Ruby! Hampton is talking "roughly" about working with Ruby at Wikimedia. Everyone calls him "HAML Guy" This...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Rubyists!

  Here are some Rubyists at GoGaRuCo. Look for more pictures to be added to this slideshow later. I THINK the...

• GoGaRuCo Tracker demo

  We had fun during lunch at GoGaRuCo talking to people about Tracker and demoing the app. Especially cool were the...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Building Custom Web Proxies in Ruby - Ilya Grigorik

  Building Custom Web Proxies in Ruby Ilya has recently fallen in love with the proxy server, and has build a...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Discussion Panel: Ruby Application Frameworks

  Intro Josh Susser does the intro. He thought it would be interesting to get authors of popular frameworks together. Speakers...

• Writing Fast Ruby: Learning from Merb & Rails 3 - Carl Lerche

  Intro Works for Engineyard. Getting to Rails 2.3, will be at RailsConf. Engineyard is hiring. Does Ruby Scale? Yes. So...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Magic scaling sprinkles - Nick Kalen

  Magic Scaling Sprinkles Nick works at Twitter and is part of the team that makes it scale. With respect to...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Josh Susser and Leah Silber

  Conference Organizers Extraordinaire!

• GoGaRuCo '09 -Hypertable and Rails: DB Scaling Solutions with HyperRecord - Josh Tyler & Rusty Burchfield

  Intro Hypertable and Rails: DB Scaling Solutions with HyperRecord Links: Hypertable HyperRecord Rusty is from Zvents, a local search engine...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Meta Meta - LiveBlogging the LiveBlogging - Coda/SubEtha

  For the second day of GoGaRuCo, my fellow Pivots David Stevenson, Zach Brock, and Ryan Dy are helping out with...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - CloudKit: Hacking the Open Stack with Ruby and Rack - Jon Crosby

  CloudKit: Hacking the Open Stack with Ruby and Rack - Jon Crosby Intro Thanks for the votes, his talk is...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Using Shoes to create better iPhone apps - Tim Elliott

  Using Shoes to Have Fun - Tim Elliott Intro He rode his bicycle from Chico. He works at Trevidia, and...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Using ruby to fight AIDS - Jacqui Maher

  Using ruby to fight AIDS - Jacqui Maher Links: Github: baobabhealth Twitter: baobabhealth IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/baobab Website: http://baobabhealth.org/ Blog: http://www.baobabhealth.org/feed/ Baobab...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star - Matt Aimonetti

  CouchDB + Ruby: Perform Like a Pr0n Star - Matt Aimonetti Intro Matt Aimonetti is part of the Merb team....

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved - Bryan Helmkamp

  Webrat: Rails Acceptance Testing Evolved - Bryan Helmkamp Intro Bryan Helmkamp ( more about him ). He works at WePlay....

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Lightning Talks

  Lightning Talks Bosco is introducing the speakers. Come to the ruby meetup! Jeff Smick - Blather Simpler XMPP Make XMPP4R...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Raffles!

  Lots of nice prizes. Some people weren't there. They lost! Zach won an iPhone!

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Arduino is Rails for hardware hacking - Greg Borenstein

  Arduino is Rails for hardware hacking - Greg Borenstein Intro Greg Borenstein Obligatory safety talk Electrical engineering is for experts!...

• GoGaRuCo '09 - Relational Modeling Framework - Nathan Sobo

  Relational Modeling Framework - Nathan Sobo Intro Video of interaction model that drove thinking Grockit - it is all common...