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Scott Chacon on Git and GitHub

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Subversion,
Version Control,
Dynamic Languages,
Java,
Collaboration,
Erlang,
Operations,
Languages,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Teamwork,
Source Control,
Functional Programming,
Infrastructure,
Architecture,
Scottish Ruby Conference,
Programming,
Performance & Scalability,
Agile,
github,
EGit,
Mercurial,
JGit,
git

Scott Chacon talks about the technologies that power GitHub (Erlang, Redis,...), and the benefits of Git as a version control and as a storage system.Also: ShowOff, Scott's JS-based presentation tool.

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Kevin Rutherford on Refactoring Ruby And Code Smells

Topics
Ruby,
Dynamic Languages,
Code Analysis,
Languages,
Profilers,
Debugging,
Refactoring,
Programming,
Scottish Ruby Conference,
Static Analysis,
Agile

Kevin Rutherford talks about the challenges of refactoring Ruby code, and his open source tool 'reek' which automates the discovery of certain code smells in Ruby code.

John Leach on Virtualization and Unix Tools for the Data Center

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Puppet,
Virtualization,
Devops,
Dynamic Languages,
Operations,
Languages,
Deployment / Datacenter,
Linux,
IaaS,
Data Access,
Monitoring,
IT Service Management,
Architecture,
Scottish Ruby Conference,
Database,
Infrastructure,
Programming,
Cloud Computing,
Xen,
Operating Systems,
Performance & Scalability

John Leach explains how Brightbox uses Virtualization in the data center and whether Virtualization causes performance problems. Also: a look at a few Unix tools and Linux features that Ruby developers might not know about.

Dan Lucraft on NoSQL DBs with Rails and the Design of JRuby-based Editor RedCar

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
JRuby,
Ruby,
MongoDB,
JVM Languages,
SWT,
Java,
Dynamic Languages,
Distributed Document Oriented Database,
Languages,
Database Design,
IDE,
NoSQL,
Data Access,
Profilers,
Programming,
Database,
Scottish Ruby Conference,
Rails,
Eclipse,
IDEs

Dan Lucraft talks about working with MongoDB and using asynchronous observers with Rails. Also: the design of the JRuby/SWT/HTML/Javascript-based, extensible editor RedCar.

Carl Lerche on Rails 3 and Arel

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Ruby,
Web Frameworks,
Dynamic Languages,
Languages,
WOA,
Data Access,
Relational Databases,
RubyGems,
Programming,
Architecture,
Database,
Rails,
Scottish Ruby Conference

Carl Lerche talks about the changes, design and new features in Rails 3. Also: the concepts and reasons behind Arel, the Rails 3 relational algebra library.

Aaron Quint on the State of Javascript

Topics
jQuery,
Javascript,
Ruby,
Java,
Web Frameworks,
Dynamic Languages,
Web Development,
.NET,
Languages,
WOA,
Programming,
RubyGems,
Architecture,
Rich Internet Apps,
Language,
Scottish Ruby Conference,
PhoneGap,
CommonJS,
Sinatra

Aaron Quint talks about his projects Sammy, a Javascript port of Sinatra, and Jim, a Javascript packaging tool, as well as the state of Javascript, jQuery, Node.js, CommonJS, and much more.