Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend

Featuring Andrew Chalkley

Andrew Chalkley will give a talk on Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend. If you have any questions or topics you would like to see covered in Andrew's talk or discussed at the ParkBench Panel discussion, tweet them using tag #rorexchange and we'll try to feature these! More...

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The Anatomy of Ruby I18n

Featuring Sven Fuchs

Sven Fuchs is the author of the I18n gem which is shipped with Rails to provide internationalization support. The gem is built in a modular way to make it easy for you to pick optional and add your own features. In this talk we will go over the architecture of the I18n gem and the advanced,...

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Databases - have it your way

Featuring Frederick Cheung

If you've used Rails, it's a safe bet to say that you've used Active Record. Active Record isn't the only ruby tool out there for manipulating your database though, and Rails 3 will play nicer than ever with other ORM libraries. Find out the similarities between some of the common...

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Rails Choices

Featuring David A. Black

Although well known as opinionated software, Rails does let you choose among different possible ways to accomplish lots of the things you have to do: templating, session storage, application vs. database-level validations... As Rails moves towards version 3, choice and modularity are increasing....

Non-Relational Databases and World Domination

Featuring Jason Davies

Apparently NoSQL is all the rage these days, but what does it really mean and what technologies are out there? When to use a non-relational database? How to decide which one to use to achieve world domination? How do I use CouchDB with Ruby on Rails? I'll explore all of these questions and...

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Enterprise Rails Hosting

Featuring Julian Fischer

Setting up a single virtual oder dedicated server is easy but what to do when more and more people bring in more and more load?

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ParkBench Panel Discussion

After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold the second ParkBench Panel discussion of the conference, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference. Ask your questions to the speakers of the afternoon's...

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Testing on Android

Featuring Diego Torres Milano

Diego Torres Milano gives an introduction to Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Development on the Android platform, techniques that every serious development project should at least consider.

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The Future of Mobile

Featuring Yan Minagawa

Yan moderated this talk like an interactive workshop, comprising of 3 to 5 minute sessions. Each session will start with a hypothesis and will complete with a collection of arguments and speculations.

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RJDJ - the reactive music player

Featuring Martin Roth

RjDj, the reactive music player, has recently been ported to Android. This could not have been accomplished without extensive use of the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) originally released in June 2009 for Android 1.5 Cupcake.

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Understanding Android bytecode with the Dedexer tool

Featuring Gabor Paller

The core of the Android system is the Dalvik virtual machine. Even though the Android application programmer writes code in Java (in most cases), the Dalvik virtual machine executes this code using some innovative solutions.

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Parkbench Panel Discussion

The audience gets to know the experts in a way that is only possible in person and the expert gets a little more exposure to the questions among the audience.

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The challenge of accelerating Android on the ZiiEgg

Featuring Gary Smith

There will be a brief overview of the ZMS architecture thats inside the ZiiEgg device. This will be followed by a discussion on the challenges we faced getting the most out of the ZMS-05 platform, highlighting the areas where we have provided hardware acceleration. There will then be some...

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Android Best Practices and Scala

Featuring Akshay Dashrath

This talk describes some “Best Practices” for android development to write code that is maintainable, readable and highly performant. We'll also explore the possibility of implementing Scala as the language of choice while programming for the platform by outlining the advantages and...

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Advanced Audio Development in Android

Featuring Andreas Reuterberg and Alex Shaw

Andreas and Alex will discuss the realities and possibilities for the world of mobile music and audio creation on Android. They will share their own practical experience with realtime DSP, interface design and embedded software to demonstrate the new opportunities given to musicians and...

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Welcome message

Featuring Carl-Gustaf Harroch and Kevin McDonagh

Welcome message

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Hardware Hacking

Featuring Andy Brockhurst

In the last YDN Tuesday of the year, Andrew "Bob" Brockhurst is going to show us some very cool Hardware Hacking.

Agile & Lean Open Space Session with Pizza & Drinks

Featuring Martine Devos

After a brief serving of Pizza & Drinks, we'll hold an Agile & Lean OpenSpace session, led by Martine Devos, to discuss ideas, things we learned, things we would like to hear more about, things to take away after the conference.

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Five Steps to Kanban

Featuring Karl Scotland

A Kanban System for Software Development provides an alternative means of creating an Agile Development process using Lean Thinking. Creating a Kanban System is not as simple as adopting a previously defined process as a starting point. Instead, a team needs to come up a model of its own process...

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Focusing on Delivery: Evolving from Scrum with Lean and Kanban

Featuring Benjamin Mitchell

This talk is an experience report on a web-based derivatives trading system which initially started using "Vanilla Scrum" which slowly evolved, through using a Kanban board and concepts from Lean Product Development into a more pragmatic delivery-focused system. The experience report...

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