Speakers


Glenn Vanderburg

Chief Scientist, Relevance Inc.

Glenn Vanderburg

Glenn Vanderburg is a principal at Relevance, where he is focused on cutting-edge software development technologies and techniques. He brings more than 20 years of experience developing software across a wide range of domains, and using a variety of tools and technologies. Glenn is always searching for ways to improve the state of software development, and was an early adopter and proponent of Ruby, Rails, and agile practices.



Blog

MagLev

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Chad Fowler nails it with his summary of MagLev. Like Chad, I think MagLev’s initial performance numbers will hold up. It’s possible that as it matures it will get slower, but it could get a lot slower than it is now and stmore »

Code generation, synthesis, whatever

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Growing Great Programmers

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Here’s another highlight from RubyConf 2007: watching Jamis Buck and Michael Koziarski give a terrific keynote based on their joint blog, The Rails Way. I leaned over to Alan Francis and mentioned how encouraging it is to see young programmmore »
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Presentations

Continuous Quality Management

It's difficult (if not impossible) to add quality to a project after it's having problems. The best and easiest time to fix a project is before it has them! Monitoring quality day-to-day is a requirement in today's fast paced world.more »

Sinatra: Essential Simplicity

Sinatra is a Ruby-based framework that makes it trivial to write simple web apps very quickly. It's much lighter weight than Rails and fills a different need, but a lot of very smart people are using this exciting new tool.more »

Fuzz-Testing Rails Apps with Tarantula

Tarantula is a Rails plugin for doing easy, repeatable fuzz testing of Rails applications. Tarantula crawls your application, supplying random inputs at every turn and looking for signs of trouble. It can be used to regularly check for many kinds of errmore »