agenda

Ruby

• Three implicit contexts in Ruby
• State of Ruby VMs: Ruby Renaissance

Rails

• Deep in Rails: ActionMailer#deliver Part I
• A command line tool that analyzes request logfiles
• Rails plugin that allows has_many :through to go through other has_many :throughs
• Unicorn: Rack HTTP server for fast clients and Unix
• Easily build timelines
• A Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup.
• Cheap front end… Capistrano task to auto upload assets to S3

iPhone/Android

• 10 User Experience Tips for Successful Android Apps
• iPhone Coding Tutorial – In Application Emailing

Cloud Computing

• Parallel Processing for the Rest of Us
• Cloud Computing Patterns

NOSQL

• Introduction to MongoDB – Part I
• Key-Value Stores in Ruby: The Wrap Up

PostgreSQL

• Command line utility to display PostgreSQL information on the command line similar to iostat or vmstat.
• Finally a good and comprehensive non-religious SQL implementation comparison
• 10 common backup mistakes

More

• Confirming Passwords Is Annoying: Is There a Better Way?
• Building Scalable Systems Using Data as a Composite Material
• State of the Index, November 2009
• Presentation: Lucene Introduction
• The web’s design problems
• Learning From Bad Ideas