RailsConf 2007 • May 17, 2007 - May 20, 2007 • Portland, Oregon

RailsConf 2007 Schedule

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Below is the detailed conference schedule for RailsConf. Schedule subject to change.

Thursday, May 17 2007
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	Oregon Ballroom 201	Oregon Ballroom 202	Oregon Ballroom 203	Oregon Ballroom 204
7:30AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00AM	Rails Guidebook Charity All-Day Tutorial Dave Thomas, Mike Clark
8:30AM	Is JavaScript Overrated? Or: How I Stopped Worrying and Put Prototype and script.aculo.us to Full Use Thomas Fuchs	Intro to Test-Driven Development for Rails David Chelimsky	Your First Day with JRuby on Rails Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo	Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up Jason Hoffman
12:00PM	Lunch
1:30PM	When V is for Vexing: Patterns to DRY Up Your Views Bruce Williams	Rails Routing Roundup David A. Black	Streamlined Justin Gehtland	Harnessing Capistrano Jamis Buck
5:00PM	Break
7:30PM	Thursday Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Friday, May 18 2007
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	Oregon Ballroom 201	Oregon Ballroom 202	Oregon Ballroom 203	Oregon Ballroom 204	c123
8:00AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00AM	Welcome Keynote David Heinemeier Hansson
10:15AM	Break
10:45AM	Building Community-focused Apps with Rails Dan Benjamin	Clean Code Robert Martin	respond_to :voice—The Convergence of Voice and Web Interfaces with Rails and Asterisk Jonathan Palley	Full-stack Web App Testing with Selenium and Rails Alex Chaffee, Brian Takita	Products & Services: Engaging with Web 2.0 Outside of the Browser with Apollo Christopher Haupt, Chris Bailey
11:35AM	Break
11:45AM	Two Revolutions Alan Francis	Doing REST Right Scott Raymond	Going Off Grid: Rails as Platform Evan Weaver	Taking Rails Tests to the Next Level Jay Fields	Products & Services: Scale Rails Without Bounds on Amazon EC2 Thorsten von Eicken, Gary Burke
12:35PM	Lunch
1:50PM	Rails in Higher Education Jeremy Sydik, Christy A. Horn, PhD	Adding Tests to Legacy Rails Apps Evan (Rabble) Henshaw-Plath	Building and Working with Static Sites in Ruby on Rails Ben Scofield	Building a Video Transcoding System for Ruby on Rails Jonathan Dahl
2:40PM	Break
2:50PM	How We Used Apollo and Rails to Build an Agile Project Management Application Christopher Haupt, Chris Bailey	Standing on the Shoulders of Giants Adam Keys	Fixtures: Friend or Foe Tom Preston-Werner	Lessons From The Real World Dirk Elmendorf	Products & Services: Ten Cool Things I Learned on the Path to Rails Enlightenment Joe McGlynn
3:40PM	Break
4:25PM	Spam I Have Known Jim Weirich	Full-stack Accessibility Jeremy Sydik	Mapping Rails to Legacy Systems Stephen Becker, Devon Jones	XUL for Rails Apps Max Lansing
5:15PM	Break
7:15PM	Enterprise is Not a Four-letter Word Steven Smith Keynote Avi Bryant Keynote Ze Frank
9:30PM	Friday Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Saturday, May 19 2007
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	Oregon Ballroom 201	Oregon Ballroom 202	Oregon Ballroom 203	Oregon Ballroom 204	c123
8:00AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00AM	Bring Ruby to the Enterprise. Not the Other Way 'Round Cyndi Mitchell Keynote Tim Bray
10:15AM	Break
10:45AM	Teascript: A Homesteader's Story Matthew Bass	Exploring Virtual Clusters for Rails Development and Deployment Bradley Taylor	Custom Rails Helpers: Keeping Your Views DRY Glenn Vanderburg	Taking Care of Rails Support Tasks Through Custom Daemons Tammer Saleh	Products & Services: Ruby Tooling: State of the Art Brian Leonard
11:30AM	Break
11:45AM	The Business of Rails Joe O'Brien, Nathaniel Talbott, Justin Gehtland, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Robby Russell, Andre Lewis	Memcaching Rails Chris Wanstrath	Scriptaculous Inside Out Nick Merwin	Joyent Slingshot Scott Barron	Products & Services: Rails and Ajax: Building Enterprise-class Applications Steven Smith
12:35PM	Lunch
1:50PM	Leveraging the IT Community Patrick McGovern	Xen and the Art of Rails Deployment Ezra Zygmuntowicz	The Dark Art of Developing Plugins James Adam	Angel on the Shoulder Jarkko Laine	Products & Services: Is Ruby Ready for Corporate IT? and Behind Mingle: ThoughtWorks Studio's Collaborative Project Management Tool Alex Verkhovsky
2:40PM	Break
2:50PM	Practical Design for Developers David Verba	Getting Real Numbers Julian Boot	Data Warehouses with ActiveWarehouse Anthony Eden	Big Stinky Piles (of Data) Rob Kaufman
3:40PM	Break
4:25PM	Getting to Go: Agile Project Acquisition for Agile Web Development Nathaniel Talbott	RESTful Modeling and Active Record F. Morgan Whitney	Open Mic Demo Session	Business Intelligence with Rails: "Done in 45 Minutes!" Soren Burkhart
5:15PM	Break
7:30PM	Saturday Birds of a Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Sunday, May 20 2007
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	Oregon Ballroom 201	Oregon Ballroom 202	Oregon Ballroom 203	Oregon Ballroom 204
8:00AM	Continental Breakfast
9:00AM	Announcements The Rails Way Jamis Buck, Michael Koziarski
10:15AM	Break
10:45AM	The Mysteries of JavaScript-Fu Dan Webb	JRuby on Rails: A Taste of Honey (for the Enterprise) Charles Nutter, Thomas Enebo	Choose Your Battles and LetIt::REST Hampton Catlin, Jeff Hardy	Scaling Twitter Britt Selvitelle, Alex Payne
11:35AM	Break
11:45AM	Rubber, Meet Road: Getting Designers Running with Rails Amy Hoy	Laying Tracks: How to Contribute to the Ruby on Rails Open Source Josh Susser	"Auto-scale" Rails Applications Jinesh Varia, Paul Bissett	How to Avoid Derailing Yourself in Rails: a Discussion of Common Pitfalls Gabriel Gironda
12:35PM	Lunch
1:50PM	Solr on Rails Erik Hatcher	A Code Walk-through of the Source Behind respond_to Andrea O.K. Wright	Rails Security: Theory and Practice Dan Moniz	Deploying on Windows - It's Actually Possible! Brian Hogan
2:40PM	Break
2:55PM	Keynote Dave Thomas
3:45PM	at_exit do reception end