David Bock
Principal Consultant, CodeSherpas Inc.
David Bock is a Principal Consultant at CodeSherpas, a company he founded in 2007. Mr. Bock is also the President of the Northern Virginia Java Users Group, the Editor of O'Reilly's OnJava.com website, and a frequent speaker on technology in venues such as the No Fluff Just Stuff Software Symposiums.
In January 2006, Mr. Bock was honored by being awarded the title of Java Champion by a panel of esteemed leaders in the Java Community in a program sponsored by Sun. There are approximately 100 active Java Champions worldwide.
David has also served on several JCP panels, including the Specification of the Java 6 Platform and the upcoming Java Module System.
In addition to his public speaking and training activities, Mr. Bock actively consults as a software engineer, project manager, and team mentor for commercial and government clients.
Presentations
Deployment with Capistrano
Capistrano is the de-facto tool used to deploy Rails applications, but it is useful for so much more. In this talk we will publish a real website from scratch, with consideration for real world stuff like safeguarding passwords, turning on and off application monitoring, multiple machine deployments, and general system administration tasks.
In addition to a real deploy in-session, we will look at the real deploy scripts for several real-world, large websites involving multiple machine architectures, minimal (sub second) downtimes, and different server configurations.
Tools for your Ruby Toolbox - Web Publishing Edition
Rails may be the framework that turned many of us on to Ruby, but if you are using it for all of your server-related Ruby projects, you probably have a hammer and are seeing every problem as a nail. There are a number of smaller, tighter solutions to problem in this space, including GServer (built into the Ruby libraries), StaticMatic and Webby (tools for generating a static site, but with all the templating goodness), Sinatra, a small server with an awesome DSL for restful web services, and Rack, an easy way to get content published as a web service.
We will spend a little bit of time of each of these, seeing how you can use each for a project where you might have previously considered Rails.
Rails Application Tuning and Performance monitoring
Most developers who adopt Rails deploy their first application and see it get rushed under heavy load... thus the rumor that 'Rails doesn't scale'. Well, Rails does, you just have to know a few things
We will touch on a lot of things in this talk - measuring performance tuning your browser experience query tuning caching - built-in and plugins architectural modifications and more
