photo by James Duncan Davidson
A few months back Chad Fowler asked me to coordinate the lightning talks for this year’s RailsConf. It turned out to be a rolicking good time! We had 36 speakers in three sessions over three days — more than half the number of official talks! Topics ranged from announcements of new plugins (man, there are a lot of these suckers out there!) to demos of cool sites (Shared Copy certainly blew some minds) to rants and harangues (Ryan Davis never disappoints in this regard).
Below, I’ve attempted to summarize each of the talks and provide appropriate links where I could find them. The results are based on my sketchy notes while keeping time (and preparing my own talk) and so are definitely less than definitive. If you spoke and I got some of your details wrong, drop me a comment and I’ll make corrections. If any speakers want to send me links to their slides, I can add those as well.
Thanks to everyone who participated — audience and speakers alike — and thanks to the RailsConf orgnaizers for letting me put this together.
Friday
- Jon Garrin – Gatekepeer Plugin
- Max Baumann – Varnish as a Page Caching Alternative
- Prabode Weebadde – Paging: Pro-Paging
- Four Hewes – “Designers: Will you respect me in the morning?”
- Scott Chacon – Git + Lighthouse
- Chew Choon Keat – Shared Copy
- Luke Francl – Fan Chatter Stadium
- Gleb Arshinov – Keyboard Shortcuts for the web
- Ryan Davis – Write less code
Saturday
- Max Warnock – RDF framework
- Josh Goebel – Pastie
- Greg Borenstein – RAD: Ruby Arduino Development
- Matt Conway – Rubber for managing EC2 with Capistrano
- David Lowenfels – Scrum Ninja
- Jeremy Seitz/Mike Hill – geo search w/sphinx (PrimoSpot.com: find parking spots in NY)
- Rich Cavanaugh – acts_as_reasonable
- Ryan Jarvinen – Earfl: Voice Flickr
- Brian Chamberlin – RailsBrain ajax docs
- Eric Mill – ohnomymoney.com: Wesabe integration
- Matthew Deiters – Content Management DSL, DSL Engine
Sunday
- Dan Chak – Active Resource Kool-Aid
- David James – Method Trails
- Michael Slater – buildingwebapps.com
- Noel Rappin – iPhone on Rails
- Robert Thau – Permissioning in ActiveRecord
- Loren Johnson – Resful Workflow Plugin
- David Woodward – REST with Rails and ejabberd
- Jon Dahl – How Not to Present at RailsConf
- Brian Durand – Performance Plugins
- Jacob Dunphy – KABLAME!! (check a git or svn repo to find out who didn’t write tests)
- Ben Mabey – RSpec Story TM Bundle
- Chad Wooley – Geminstaller
- Aaron Campos – Automator
- Joannou Ng – NSTableViewFTW
- Mark Anderson – Jive Pages Plugin
Tagged: RailsConf, 2008, ruby, rails, conference, lightning+talks
Hi Greg,
NSTableViewFTW at GitHub:
http://github.com/joannou/nstableviewftw
Cheers, Joannou.
Thanks, Joannou. Added!
Hey Greg,
Erm, its ‘NSTableViewFTW’ instead of ‘NSTableView’.
And my last name is ‘Ng’, not ‘Hg’.
Cheers, Joannou.
Joannou — Fixed. Thanks for the correction.
Hey Greg, Rubber was me 🙂 I’ve also moved to github since then (all the cool kids were doing it 😉 http://github.com/wr0ngway/rubber/wikis
You have my blog right though. Thanks,
Matt
Thanks for the correction, Matt; I’ve fixed it in the post.
Thanks for organizing the Lightning Talks. Best part of the whole conference if you ask me.
FWIW, my last name is actually spelled “Francl” and I blog at Rail Spikes.
@Luke: Thanks, glad to hear it! I fixed my spelling of your name (reading all the terrible programmer handwriting on the sign-up sheet was quite the challenge 🙂 and added the link to your blog.
heh, that’s F-R-A-N-C-L. I should get an award for the most hard to spell and pronounce name in this thread. 😉
@Luke: ok, it’s fixed now. It was really just a scam to keep you coming back to the post 🙂 All part of my plan to increase my traffic by misspelling the name of everyone on the internet one-by-one…
your link to primospot is not correct. it goes to a broken link.
@Mike: Should be working now. I just forgot the “http://”!
Hi Greg,
I am the guy who gave the HDMI to VGA converter. I noticed my last name is misspelled. It should be Weebadde not Neebadde. Please link my blog too.
@Prabode: I fixed the spelling in the post and added a link to your blog, which doesn’t seem to be actually online at the moment…
I gave a talk about ScrumNinja.com
Please link my name to blog.internautdesign.com
thanks!
@David: Thanks for the details. I’ve added your site and your blog to the post.
Hey! KABLAME! is available as a gem now, too!
gem install kablame
http://kablame.rubyforge.org
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Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium?
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