Jessie Shternshus: Playnote
The kickoff to every event Sapling Events has hosted in Madison has been Jessie Shternshus. There is simply no better way to get a large group of people, some of whom know each other and other who do...
View ArticleAaron Patterson: Yak shaving is best shaving.
Many developers try to avoid yak shaving. In this talk we will attempt to explore the joys of shaving a yak. We’ll explore new features of Active Record, along with techniques for performance...
View ArticleCarina C. Zona: Schemas For The Real World
Social app development challenges us to code for users’ personal world. Users are giving push-back to ill-fitted assumptions about their own identity — name, gender, sexual orientation, important...
View ArticleRubyists Meet-up Tonight at Madison Public Library
The local Ruby users group, Mad-Railers, is meeting tonight at the new Madison Public Library. Two great reasons to get downtown tonight despite the white stuff. There are two formats to tonights...
View ArticleMad-Railers: Steve Faulkner on opinionated development communities
Steve Faulkner (@southpolesteve) shares his experience navigating the opinionated waters of Ruby on Rails development. He shares Ruby/Rails community trends in the “New Hotness” vs. “Old and busted”...
View ArticleSteve Klabnik: CLOSURE
On August 19, 2009, _why the lucky stiff disappeared from the Internet. It was a sad day for Rubyists everywhere, but we all moved on, or at least, tried to. Then, on April 18th of this year, _why came...
View ArticleThe Last Madison+ Ruby & UX
This is a cross post with adorable IO. It doesn’t feel like five years. In some ways it feels like yesterday and in other ways it feels like twenty years. Jen and I set out with the goal of creating a...
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