RailsConf Europe 2007 • September 17, 2007 - September 19, 2007 • Berlin, Germany

RailsConf Sessions

Sessions at RailsConf Europe happen Tuesday, September 18 through Wednesday, September 19 and will cover a wide variety of subject matters for all levels of Rails expertice.

Tuesday | Wednesday

Tuesday 18 September 2007

Welcome and Announcements
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 09:00 - 09:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Keynote
David Heinemeier Hansson
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 09:15 - 10:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Deployment and Continuous Integration from the Trenches
Fernand Galiana, Owner, LiquidRail LLC
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim A

Data Warehouses with ActiveWarehouse
Anthony Eden
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal 2

Caching in a Multilanguage Environment
Benjamin Krause
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim B

Making Rails More (Artificially) Intelligent
Sergio Espeja, Researcher, IULA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Santiago Bel, Co-founder, bee.com.es
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim C

Harnessing The Power Of 3rdRail
Shelby Sanders, Principal Engineer, Codegear
Mark Howe, CodeGear
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal 4

Meta-Magic in Rails: Become a Master Magician
Nic Williams
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim B

Rails Full Text Search with Ferret
Jens Krämer
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal 2

Beyond Screenscraping: Toolbox for Changing the (Legacy) World
Jesper Rønn-Jensen, Web developer, usability specialist, Capgemini Denmark
Mads Buus Westmark, Web Developer, Capgemini Denmark
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim A

ActiveRecord and Service Data Objects: Adding New Data Models Beneath Your Rails Apps
Doug Tidwell, Senior Software Engineer, IBM
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim C

3rd Partying Issues and Solutions
Ryan Garver, CTO, ELC Technologies
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal 4

Utilizing Amazon S3 and EC2 in Rails
Jonathan Weiss, Peritor Wissensmanagement GmbH
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal 2

JRuby on Rails: A Path to Adoption
Thomas Enebo
Charles Nutter, JRuby Core Developer, Sun Microsystems
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim C

Really Scaling Rails
Britt Selvitelle, Twitter

Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim A

The Forgotten Child: Powerful CSS with Rails
Geoffrey Grosenbach, Senior Visionary, Topfunky Corporation
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim B

Mingle - the JRuby on Rails product
Chad Wathington, ThoughtWorks

Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal 4

Anchoring Trust: Rewriting DNS for the Semantic Network with Ruby and Rails
Eleanor McHugh, Games With Brains
Romek Szczesniak, Crytographer, Games with Brains
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim C

Tabnav: Do We Really Need a Plugin for Tabbed Navigation?
Paolo Dona, SeeSaw srl
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal 2

Developing Enterprise Rails Solutions
Leon Katsnelson, IBM
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal 4

Rubinius, Improving The Rails Ecosystem
Evan Phoenix, Engine Yard
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim A

Lightning Talks
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim B

Beyond Startups: Rails Demand in the Global 2000
Jonathan Siegel, President, ELC Technology
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 16:15 - 16:30
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

The Rest of REST
Roy T. Fielding, Chief Scientist, Day Software
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 16:30 - 17:30
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Rails and the Next Generation Web
Craig R. McClanahan, Senior Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 17:30 - 17:45
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Developing a GeoRails Stack
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 19:30 - 20:30
Location: Salon 1

Towards a New Dynamic Internet with Ruby and DNS
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 19:30 - 20:30
Location: Salon 3

Sneak Peek: Prototype and script.aculo.us 2.0
Date: Tuesday 18 September 2007
Time: 20:30 - 21:30
Location: Salon 2

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Wednesday 19 September 2007

Announcements
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 09:00 - 09:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Bring Ruby to the Enterprise, Not the Other Way 'Round
Cyndi Mitchell, Vice President of Strategy, ThoughtWorks
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 09:15 - 09:30
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

Best Practices
Michael Koziarski, Software Consultant, Koziarski Software Limited
Marcel Molina Jr., Developer, Rails Core
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 09:30 - 10:15
Location: Saal Maritim ABC

JRuby on Rails at ThoughtWorks
Ola Bini, ThoughtWorks
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim C

Building Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Ruby on Rails
Simeon Bateman
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim A

Building Webapps in Europe: Economy, Methodology, and Tips
Nicolas Paton, President, Bloogk
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal Maritim B

Rails Hydra: Synthesizing an Application out of Multiple Rails Codebases
Craig R. McClanahan, Senior Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Nick Sieger, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 10:45 - 11:30
Location: Saal 4

Creating Hybrid Web and Desktop Applications with Rails and Slingshot
Luke Crawford, Joyent
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim B

Ruby on Rails Security
Heiko Webers
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim A

Using a HAXOR Approach for Peace and Productivity
Tim Dysinger
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal Maritim C

An Introduction to JRuby on Rails: This Time with Tools
Brian Leonard, Senior Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 11:35 - 12:20
Location: Saal 4

Browser-based Testing of Massive Ajax-using Rails Applications with Selenium
Till Vollmer, Codemart GmbH
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim C

Development Case Study: MindMeister
Michael Hollauf, DI, Codemart
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim A

Africa on Rails
Mike McKay, Lead Software Developer, Baobab Health Partnership
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal Maritim B

Production Deployment with RubyWorks Stack
Alex Verkhovsky, ThoughtWorks
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:00 - 14:45
Location: Saal 4

Outsourcing to Open Source
Tobias Luetke, Cofounder, jadedPixel
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim A

Functional JavaScript Development with Prototype
Ben Nolan, Director, ProjectX
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal 4

Exploring Very Rapid Web Development Techniques with Hobo
Tom Locke, Partner, HoboTech
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim B

Continuous Validation: Pursuing Error-free Apps
Dane Avilla
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 14:50 - 15:35
Location: Saal Maritim C

Parliament on Rails: Constructing a Social Web Application from Semi-structured Data
Rob McKinnon
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:05
Location: Saal Maritim B

Debugging and Testing the Web Tier
Neal Ford, Application Architect, ThoughtWorks Inc
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:05
Location: Saal Maritim C

Extending Rails to Use the Presenter Pattern
Jay Fields, Associate, ThoughtWorks
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:00
Location: Saal Maritim A

Ruby on Rails leads you to the e-business
Quentin Tousart, Chief Executive Officer, Webpulser
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 16:15 - 17:00
Location: Saal 4

Teaching Rails at a University
Carsten Bormann, Prof., TZI Uni Bremen
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 17:05 - 17:50
Location: Saal Maritim C

PhD on Rails: An Introduction to the Metadata Cascade
Sam Aaron, Newcastle University
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 17:05 - 17:50
Location: Saal Maritim B

Obscure Data Formats, Workflow, and Remote Synchronization
Chad Thatcher, Drakensberg
Date: Wednesday 19 September 2007
Time: 17:05 - 17:50
Location: Saal Maritim A

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Please Note: Program content subject to change.