Welcome

Andy Croll, ImpulseFlyer / Organiser
andycroll.com • @andycroll

Building a faster web, at Google and beyond

Learn from running Google services at scale, including the research, projects, and open sourced tools we've developed in the process: HTTP Archive, SPDY, PageSpeed services, Closure and more.

Ilya Grigorik, Google
igvita.com • @igrigorik

The 12 Factor App

Richard Schneeman, Heroku
schneems.com • @schneems

Building Web Services with a PUBSUB infrastructure

Thorben Schroder, Engine Yard
github/walski • @walski

Continuous Performance Testing

Andras Kristof, Viki
akomba.com • @akomba

The Γυβψ Community

When comparing different types of organizations what good practices can we adopt to grow our community even further and can we eradicate bad habits that we've picked up?

Danish Khan, Github
danishkhan.org • @danishkhan

Ruby, Rock & Roll

Sau Sheong Chang, HP Labs
blog.saush.com • @sausheong

CSS Testing: Designs Can Be Tested Too

Winston Teo, {new context}
winstonyw.com • @winstonyw

Dive inside Ruby 1.9

Ruby 1.9 from inside: how has the VM changed? How it does GC, how it does Object allocation, how it does threading. The works.

Hemant Kumar, Codemancers
gnufied.org • @gnufied

Client-side Templating for Reactive UI

Explore the implic­a­tions & philosophy of client-side ren­der­ing & templating: such as jQuery tem­plates, EJS, Under­score and Handle­bars

Tim Oxley, Unit IO
github/timoxley • @secoif

A Journey into Pair Programming

Wei Lu, {new context}
@luweidewei

Welcome Back

Andy Croll, ImpulseFlyer / Organiser
andycroll.com • @andycroll

Redis on Ruby

Obie Fernandez, Due Props / Hashrocket
obiefernandez.com • @obie

Git Secrets

About five million tiny pieces of source-control awesome.

Zach Holman, Github
zachholman.com • @holman

`bundle install`: Y U SO SLOW

Terence Lee, Heroku
hone.heroku.com • @hone02

Computer Scientist, Developer, or Engineer?

Getting paid to build human civilization

Carl Coryell-Martin, {new context}
@carlcoryell

Complex Calculations Within a Web Request

Ruby is slow therefore we let complex calculations run outside a web request using tools like delayed_job or extract them to c/java code. But what if these two options are not available?

Sebastian Burkhard, Fundexplorer
github/hasclass • @hasclass

Level Up and switch from JS to CoffeeScript

These days, if you're working on anything web-related, you're almost certainly going to need to write some JavaScript. But if you're still writing vanilla JS, you're missing out on a lot of really compelling features that will help you write better code.

Gabe Hollombe, Tutoring Australasia
avantbard.com • @gabehollombe

API-Driven Development

A guide to modern approaches for building APIs as the core of an application for use behind things such as mobile apps.

Darcy Laycock, Filter Squad
sutto.net • @sutto

Lessons From the Other Side: Effectively Contributing to Open Source

Michael “Koz” Koziarski, Southgate Labs
koziarski.com • @nzkoz