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7 Video Presentations From The WindyCityRails 2009 Conference

Source: Ruby Inside

Oct 06, 2009

Summary

The 1-day WindyCityRails conference happened again this year, this time in downtown Chicago at the Westin Hotel on September 12. Reviews were generally positive with the conference sessions balancing immediately-useful Ruby and Rails tips with related concepts like functional programming and design. All of the main track sessions were professionally recorded and are available through the official website, though I've linked to each of them individually below as well:

Better Ruby through Functional Programming by Dean Wampler – Dean Wampler is author of Programming Scala. He introduced functional programming concepts and how to implement them in Ruby.

Super-easy PDF Generation with Prawn and Prawnto by John McCaffrey – PDF generation is a complex feature and John described various types and recommended particular tools for each type.

Comics Is Hard: On Domains and Databases by Ben Scofield – Modeling certain domains with relational data stores breaks down quickly. Ben described two and briefly discussed SQL-less alternatives that work better.

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