Program

Schedule Posted

Aloha!

We’re excited to announce the formal schedule for Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference! We’ve put together two amazing days of quality, relevant, timely, and thought provoking sessions. A big mahalo to our speakers for sharing their story. And a really big mahalo to all our attendees and guests who are coming to share in the discussion.

Watch a Video Sneak Peak of Scott Chacon’s “The Birth of Git” Talk

Aloha!

Scott Chacon, from Github and author of the new book Pro Git, gave a sneak peak of his upcoming talk for Aloha on Rails. Titled “The Birth of Git”, Scott will tell the story of how Git and Mercurial were born, and how these two modern distributed revision control systems have evolved. By teaching the historical context and motivations, and philosophical and implementation differences, of these systems, Scott hopes attendees will gain a deeper appreciation for these critically important tools.

Watch a Video Sneak Peak of Tammer Saleh’s “You’re Doing It Wrong” Talk

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What are you striving for when you write code? Correctness? Passing tests? A chance to apply that KillerWickedAwesomeInvertedArrayBubbleDistributedRingSort? Beauty?

Strive for maintainability, according to Tammer Saleh, formally of Thoughtbot, author of Shoulda, and now an independent consultant in the San Francisco area. Tammer, along with Chad Pytel (founder of Thoughtbot), will be presenting “You’re Doing It Wrong“, at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference.

Watch a Video Sneak Peak of Michael Nieling’s Design Talk

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This is not the design talk to be afraid of. This is Design with a capital D. Michael Nieling, founder and principal at Ocupop, will be teaching attendees why Design is the single most important aspect of the development process, and how to address these critical concerns with intelligence and an engineer’s unique abilities. Michael, an engineer turned Designer, has experience designing everything from retail kiosks to interactive web applications to iPhone applications.

Sneak Peak of Yahoo’s Alan Gates Talks at Aloha on Rails

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I was so excited to visit Alan Gates at Yahoo. I’ve never been to the Yahoo campus before, and I wasn’t disappointed. Alan is a very friendly host, and Yahoo’s cafeteria had lots of gourmet (and cheap) options. Also, I think I saw Jerry Yang hanging out.

Blake Mizerany’s, of Sinatra and Heroku, Teaser Video for Aloha on Rails

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While I was in San Francisco, I was lucky to sit down with Blake Mizerany, author of Sinatra and engineer at Heroku. Blake will be presenting “Forget Kindergarten, Learn to Scale” at Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. During the interview, Blake gives us a sneak peak into his talk, which covers lessons learned from building Heroku. Blake will also teach why these techniques work, ensuring attendees have a deep understanding of scaling theory and practice.

Call for Participation Closed, Reviewing Submissions

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We are humbled by the overwhelming response to our Call for Participation. We have received submissions covering all aspects related to web development and Rails. A big mahalo to all those who sent in an abstract.

We will now start the tough job of reviewing the abstracts to assemble the final program. We expect to have the entire two day conference mapped out in about a week. We will contact all those who have submitted proposals, regardless if they are accepted.

See you at Aloha on Rails!

Rails 3 API and Hadoop, Map Reduce, and Pig to be Presented

We’re extremely excited to announce two of the newest additions to our ever growing speaker list for Aloha on Rails. This conference is shaping up to be a true testament of the breadth and aloha of the Rails community.

Yehuda Katz, core committer and spearheading the Merb/Rails merger, will teach us the principles of the Rails 3 API. He will show us how to read and understand the Rails source code so we can customize the framework just the way we want. The public API for Rails 3 is a major development, and will help stabilize the plugin and extension ecosystem.

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