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Building Native Mobile Apps in Rhodes
In this talk from FutureRuby Adam Blum shows Rhodes, an open source Ruby-based framework for building locally executing apps with access to device features for all major smartphone devices.
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Crimes Against Humanity, Writ Small
The Milgram experiments revealed a number of exploitable weaknesses in human psychology. Matt Knox talks about those weaknesses, their exploitation, consequences, and aftermath.
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Programming Life
Austin Che discusses DNA and reprogramming life to create a myriad of novel biological systems. Modularity, abstraction and standardization allow non-biologists design and build biological systems.
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How Capitalism Saves Ruby From Corporatism
Nathaniel Talbott explains: the revolution isn't free. If the Ruby community doesn't want to have the life sucked out by soulless corporations it has to learn to take value and turn it into cash.
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Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology
In this talk from FutureRuby, Jesse Hirsh explains the history of Imperial California and the means by which its ideology infects everyone.
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Terrible Noises for Beautiful People
In this FutureRuby session, Misha Glouberman has the audience make terrible noises and behave like a giant cellular automaton - among other things.
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Multicore Programming in Erlang
Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.
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Artisanal Retro-Futurism and Team-Scale Anarcho-Syndicalism
The Agile movement gave unconventional people cover while they sneaked odd and productive ideas (like Ruby) into projects. Today, Agile is sick and this FutureRuby talk shows what’s gone missing.
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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Writing DSLs in Groovy
After a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed.
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.
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Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang
This highly technical presentation discusses Erlang and three models of concurrent programming along with challenges posed by concurrency and how Erlang resolves them.
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