RubyConf 2016

Cincinnati, OH • November 10-12, 2016

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RubyConf is a yearly conference and features 92 talks from various speakers, including keynotes by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.

Talks Speakers Schedule

Day 2 - Friday (Nov 11, 2016)

09:30 - 10:15

You Have the Empathy of a Goat: Documenting for the User

Tara Scherner De La Fuente

10:25 - 11:10

Ruby and Hardware

(m)Ruby on Small Devices

Shashank Daté

Testing

Better Code Through Boring(er) Tests

Betsy Haibel

From no OSS Experience to the Core Team in 15 Minutes a Day

André Arko

Lessons Learned

Finding Your Edge Through a Culture of Feedback

Paulette Luftig

11:20 - 12:05

Ruby and Hardware

Building HAL: Running Ruby with Your Voice

Jonan Scheffler

Testing

Surgically Refactoring Ruby with Suture

Justin Searls

Implementing Virtual Machines in Ruby (and C)

Eleanor McHugh

Lessons Learned

My Meta Moments

John DeWyze

12:05 - 13:15

Lunch

13:15 - 14:00

Ruby and Hardware

How I Taught My Dog To Text Selfies

Greg Baugues

Testing

Test Doubles are Not To Be Mocked

Noel Rappin

Performance

Ruby 3 Concurrency

Koichi Sasada

Lessons Learned

Why Is Open Source So Closed?

Ra'Shaun Stovall

14:10 - 14:55

Ruby and Hardware

It's More Fun to Compute

Julian Cheal

Ruby for Home-Ec

Adam Forsyth

Performance

Ruby’s C Extension Problem and How We're Solving It

Chris Seaton

Ruby, Red Pandas, and You

Sean Marcia

15:05 - 15:50

Ruby and Hardware

Programming in the Small: Kids, Chickens, and Ruby

Coraline Clark, Jason Clark

JRuby Everywhere! Server, Client, and Embedded

Thomas E Enebo

Performance

Slo Mo

Richard Schneeman

The Little Server That Could

Stella Cotton

15:50 - 16:20

Break

16:20 - 17:05

Ruby and Hardware

Running Global Manufacturing on Ruby (among other things)

Lee Edwards

The Long Strange Trip of a Senior Developer

Brandon Hays

Performance

Halve Your Memory Usage With These 12 Weird Tricks

Nate Berkopec

Grow Your Team In 90 Days

Cheryl Gore Schaefer

17:15 - 18:45

Lightning Talks

André Arko, Francois Lapierre Messier, Sam Phippen, Caroline Jobe, Jen Pengelly, Starr Chen, Olivia Brundage, Kate Rezentes, Amy Howes, Assaf Hefetz, Miki Rezentes, Michael Hartl, James Thompson, Victoria Gonda, Jonathon Slate, Michael Cain, Jamie Gaskins, Yurie Yamane, Kei Nawanda, Ryder Timberlake, Noah Gibbs, Chris Vannoy, Andrew Faraday, Mischa Lewis, Jeff Foster