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January 2014

Planner: Jeff Felchner @jfelchner

Emcee: Jeff Felchner @jfelchner

Beginner Talk: Clare Glinka - How to Make a Ruby Gem (aka The Things I Wish I'd Known Before Writing My First Gem)

Advanced Talk: Jeff Felchner - Using Rails Engines as an SOA Middle Ground

Food Sponsor: The Frontside

Socialization Practice Sponsor: OwnLocal

February 2014

signup here -> https://github.com/austinonrails/members/wiki/February-2014-Lightning-List

Planner: Damon Clinkscales

Emcee: Damon Clinkscales

Beginner Talk: Lightning Round 1

Advanced Talk: Lightning Round 2

Food Sponsor: LoneStarRuby

Socialization Practice Sponsor: LoneStarRuby

March 2014 - Austin on Rails SXSW Happy Hour

Devs RSVP here

PLEASE email sponsors -at- austin on rails -dot- org if you would like to be a premier sponsor! we need your help.

April 2014

Planner: Chad Bailey

Emcee: Chad Bailey

Beginner Talk: Chad Bailey - Understanding (and Fixing) Rails App Performance on Heroku

Advanced Talk: Keith Gaddis - Monolithic SOA: Doing the right thing the wrong way (or was it the other way around?)

Food Sponsor: Heroku

Socialization Practice Sponsor: OwnLocal

May 2014

Planner: Lance Woodson

Emcee: Jonathan Hardy

Beginner Talk: Patrick Morgan - Deconstructing your Code with Pry - Software is hard, but even more so if you don’t know what is actually going on. In this introductory talk, we will overview how to use the Pry REPL in the context of Ruby on Rails development and discover the ways we can explore code and program state while an application is running. Specifically we will overview the installation and use of Pry and a few of its more useful extensions in a Ruby 2.1 and Rails 4.x environment.

Advanced Talk: Lance Woodson - Fixing Foundations (Without Shaking the Walls) - A retrospective of work on a foundational element of PeopleAdmin’s technology stack — backgrounding with Resque. The problems were difficult to diagnose, manifesting mostly in production. The work would be risky, with the potential to cause outages across all applications. And the solutions required the building of tools not yet available. I will share my ideas in how to deal with these type of gnarly issues in light of this experience and demonstrate some of the tools developed by PeopleAdmin and released as open source gems that might help others dealing with chronic problems in their backgrounding layer.

Food Sponsor: PeopleAdmin

Socialization Practice Sponsor: PeopleAdmin

June 2014

Planner: Theo Mills

Emcee: Theo Mills

Beginner Talk: Matt Swain - Unix Tricks for Rails Developers
Most Rails Developers use the Unix shell, Bash (or a variant), every day. However, many newcomers don't utilize the full potential of this ubiquitous command line interface to the Unix operating system. In this talk, I'll discuss powerful features and tricks of the Bash shell to help improve your day to day life developing with Rails!

Advanced Talk: Theo Mills - Refactoring Outside the Stack
For most large Rails applications, ActiveRecord models eventually become junk drawers full of callbacks, business logic and predicate methods. Using Code Climate’s “7 Patterns to Refactor Fat ActiveRecord Models” blog post as a guide, I’ll discuss the pros and cons of each recommended strategy, offering real world tips and code examples along the way.

Food Sponsor: ShippingEasy

Socialization Practice Sponsor: ShippingEasy

July 2014

Planner: Damon Clinkscales

Emcee: Damon Clinkscales

Beginner Talk: MakerSquare Students & Teachers (3 talks)

Advanced Talk: Scott Feinberg @scottefein - Building a Geo-Distributed Infrastructure for your Rails App

Food Sponsor: WePay

Socialization Practice Sponsor: OwnLocal

August 2014

Planner: Aaron Scruggs

Emcee: Aaron Scruggs

Beginner Talk: Khash Sajadi - Backgrounding

Advanced Talk: Joshua Cody - Arel for Software Writers and Computer Scientists
A relational algebra? Abstract syntax trees? The visitor pattern? There's a lot of neat patterns and computer science behind Arel, but it's also easy to write queries that make your coworkers go :rage4:. What are the patterns and principles behind one of Rails' nicest tools, and how can we wield them tastefully?

Food Sponsor: AcademicWorks, inc.

Socialization Practice Sponsor: South by Southwest

September 2014

Planner: Tim Tyrrell

Emcee: Nathan Ladd

Beginner Talk: Nathan Ladd - Better Testing By Questioning Everything

Advanced Talk: Nick Means - You are Not an Impostor

Food Sponsor: Cloud 66

Socialization Practice Sponsor: thoughtbot

October 2014

Planner: Damon Clinkscales

Emcee: Anthony Lewis

Beginner Talk: Anthony Lewis - What's new in Rails 4.2

Advanced Talk: Michael May - Edge cache dynamic rails apps

Food Sponsor: Fastly

Socialization Practice Sponsor: OwnLocal

November 2014

CANCELLED - due to Thanksgiving Holiday

December 2014

Austin Area Holiday Web Bash - stay tuned for details!