Showtime! Join us for Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp today from 9 to 5 – Free and Everyone Welcome

Doors will open at 9 o’clock and we will kick-off camp-style with a talk scheduling session starting at 9:15.

The idea is that everyone interested in presenting gives a two/three minute summary and than we arrange the schedule and room assignments depending on interest and expected audience and start off with the first talks at 9:30.

For the non-hack-a-thon we will have 45 minutes slots:

• 9:30-10:15
• 10:15-11:00
• 11:00-11:45
• Lunch Break
• 1:00-1:45
• 1:45-2:30
• 2:30-3:15
• 3:15-4:00
• 4:00-4:45
• The End

For upcoming talks, see our RubyCamp wiki.

If you plan to speak today, just add yourself to the wiki to help us with the scheduling and planning. We accept last minute talks.

See you all at Vancouver’s 1st RubyCamp.

Where? Join us at WorkSpace @ 400 – 21 Water St in Downtown Vancouver

About our venue:

WorkSpace
400 – 21 Water St.
Vancouver BC, V6B 1A1 (Search on Google Maps for “21 Water St., Vancouver“).

What Is WorkSpace?

WorkSpace is a shared work environment in downtown Vancouver. Our Gastown loft has meeting rooms, a lounge & a café surrounding a beautiful open concept work environment. Read more…

Vancouver RubyCamp 2008 – Talk Highlights

Here is the list of talks that we have confirmed so far. For more detail on the talks, see the wiki page. Make sure you scroll down, as there are a ton of great talks.

There’s still time to add a talk or two, but let us know soon so that we can fit you in the schedule.

Note for the speakers: If you won’t be at the conference for the full day, or if you won’t be able to make it for the scheduling round first thing in the morning, let me know at scott@spattendesign.com so that we can make sure you get on the schedule at a time that works for you.

Without further ado, here’s the list:

Wrangling Large Data Sets with Rails and JavaScript

Presenter: Eric Promislow, ActiveState

TrimPath Junction (Ruby on Rails in 100 % JavaScript)

Presenter: Jim Pick

JRuby (Ruby on Java)

Presenter: Alexey Verkhovsky, ThoughtWorks

Hosting Options, Tips and Tricks for Scaling Ruby on Rails Facebook Apps

Presenter: Mark Mayo, Joyent

Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2

Presenter: Peter Armstrong, Ruboss

What’s Ahead for JavaScript?

Presenter: Kurt Cagle

Secrets of a Successful Rails Deployment

Presenter: Vince Hodges and Paul Prescod, Kinzin

Techniques for Improving Rails Reliability

Presenter: Kukuljevic-Pearce, Kinzin

Multi-Threaded Image Uploading and Thumbnailing with Mongrel, Rack, ImageScience and Thread Queues

Presenter: Vince Hodges and Marc Gomez and Ian Suda, Kinzin

Rails and Not-for-Profits (The DogOnRails Presentation)

Presenter: Joe Bowser, Nitobi Software / FreeTheNet Vancouver

Rubyize This!

Presenter: Scott Patten, spatten design (This will be in the hackathon-unconference track.)

Unconference event: Rubyize This! Live in Vancouver

Rubyize This! is a fun little coding game invented by François Lamontagne of Ruby Fleebie. The idea is that someone puts up a chunk of code that is written in Ruby, but in a not very Rubyish way. Then, everyone in the audience gets to Rubyize it!

I’ll present some ugly sample code, and the audience will submit their refactorings to Refactor My Code. When everyone is done, you get to present your Rubyization.

Feel free to bring your own ugly sample code for us to work on too.

Should be fun for all, novice Rubyist to expert!