@wycats, wycats@gmail.com yesterday, sandi metz’s talk was about how to avoid that cruft. this talk is what to do to fix it! the gap bewteen the assumptions you made when you first made the code and years later consumes more and more development time. sounds like classic technical debt, but it’s not — you accure… Continue reading Cruft & Technical Debt – Yehuda Katz – GoGaRuCo ’12

developer and sex educator, think a lot about how these things overlap (xkcd about ‘sex’ not being found on fitocracy lol) imagine everyone thinking that who you are and who you love is wrong. then imagine that everyone on the web doesn’t let you say who you are. excluded. canonical set of relationship statuses? 3… Continue reading Schemas for the Real World – Carina Zona – GoGaRuCo ’12

David Copeland, http://www.twitter.com/davetron5000 Based on his personal experience at LivingSocial, building Payments app. Story of rasonable programmers making reasonable decisions leading to WTF Resque – creating a job that will be serviced by the NewPersonEvent class, given id when run, jam into redis (which is superfast key value store). So this will be fast, way… Continue reading Services, scale, backgrounding – David Copeland – GoGaRuCo ’12

talking to an activist, who saw a clearcut field and it broke his heart. “if i had known what i was going to get into, might not have done all fo this.” but no regret in his voice. was happy that was ignorant of what was coming down. resonated with me, because in my life,… Continue reading Naiveté – Chris Eppstein minitalk- GoGaRuCo ’12

Tweets by igrigorik Ilya Grigorik rough notes Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization 3 major components netowrk server browser execution server – rails app server network – shows different & moving components in the network stack. look at some things chrome does for htis browser execution network stack: an average page has grown to 1059kB (over… Continue reading webkit/chromium performance @gogaruco12! Cargo Cult Web Performance Optimization – Ilya Grigorik

I LOVED this talk!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4. Heather Rivers – linguistic optluck – crowdwourcing localization with rails @heatherrivers Started w/ Ruby at a startup weekend and discovered the true way (cheers lol). Computer aren’t ready to do natural language processing just yet. Sometimes, we need computers to be able to serve content in different languages. token: “{friend}… Continue reading Heather Rivers – Linguistic Potluck – crowdsourcing localization in rails!

@ Positive Building a Rails Engine 0.14 11/11/05 – DHH wrote an anti-engine post on the official RoR blog. Basically writing against how we use Rails today (bringing in Omniauth, etc) — thought you should build application-specific solutions because it would be so easy. “the goal of rails is to create a world where they… Continue reading Building a Rails Engine – gogaruco12