Ruby Profilers

Featuring Daniel Lucraft

Dan Lucraft is going to talk to us about ruby profilers, specifically his jruby-prof gem. Even though his gem is for jruby only, he's going to give us a good grounding on "pure" ruby profilers first.

jruby

Tokyo Cabinet, Tokyo Tyrant and Kyoto Cabinet: the World of Mikio Ware

Featuring Makoto Inoue

Tokyo Cabinet is one of the first "Key Value" stores. It was released in 2007, but surprisingly small number of people know what it is really capable of. Makoto Inoue, the maintainer of Tokyo Cabinet Wiki will unveil the core philosophy and exciting features behind these products.

tokyo-cabinet tokyo-tyrant key-value-store

MongoDB

Featuring Seth Edwards

Seth will cover the use-cases for why we might want to use MongoDB in our apps and also give examples of using the ruby driver.

mongodb ruby

What every computer programmer should know about time

Featuring Sean O'Halpin

I've been putting some notes together on time similar in spirit (if not in detail) to "What every computer programmer should know about floating-point arithmetic."

utc localtime ntp date-arithmetic

Software Craftsmanship Terminology

Featuring Corey Haines

Corey will discuss the lingo of software craftsmanship, describing concrete definitions that go past the FUD often associated with them.

Software Craftsmanship Ideas & Eden

Featuring Chris Parsons

Chris Parsons will talk about how craftsmanship ideas have been applied at Eden, showing there doesn't have to be a conflict between these two goals.

Rack::Cache and associated things

Featuring Thomas Pomfret

ruby

Evolution of Data Models in Rails - Lessons Learned

Featuring Lars Jorgensen

In this podcast, Lars Jorgensen gives a talk on the lessons learned from developing a ruby on rails application for an evolving data model.

ruby-on-rails

Using Websockets with EventMachine

Featuring Ismael Celis

Decorating the Domain - Wrapping Polymorphic Presentation Logic Around the Model

Featuring Brent Snook

ruby bigdata model active record