RailsConf 2008 registration opened

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RailsConf 2008 Largest International Gathering of Ruby and Rails
Developers
New Community Project Code-Drive Challenges Hackers 

Sebastopol, CA-Registration has opened for RailsConf 2008, scheduled for
May 29 through June 1 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
Copresenters Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media have announced the program,
which combines keynotes, sessions, tutorials, panels, and events in an
interactive meeting ground for the innovative Rails experts and companies.
The conference provides attendees with examples of successful business
models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream
businesses new to the Web and Rails to take advantage of this new
generation of services and opportunities. 

Program chair Chad Fowler has introduced a new event, Community Project
Code-Drive, on the conference's first day. Project leaders and like-minded
developers can spend the day hacking together, after project owners pitch
their projects and attendees organize themselves into groups to work on
those projects. "I'm always looking for ways to get humans together for
meaningful and potentially lasting interactions at our conferences. So
we're trying something new this year during the tutorial day. It happens
on the first day of the conference on purpose, so the work can continue
for the rest of the conference. My hope is to bring project
owners/committers together with aspiring contributors and bring more
people into the fold of projects which need help," Fowler says. "Think of
it as a room full of code sprints happening all at once."

In addition to this project, tutorials led by experts fill the
conference's first day, Thursday May 29.

Jeremy Kember and Kent Beck have joined the keynote speakers. More
sessions scheduled for the remainder of the conference, May 30 through
June 1, include: 

-"Design Patterns in Ruby" by Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks 
-"Multi-Core Hysteria: FUD about CRUD?" by Andrea O.K. Wright of Chariot
Solutions 
-"10 Things I Hate About Web Apps" by Micah Martin of 8th Light, Inc. 
-"Advanced Active Record Techniques: Best Practice Refactoring" by Chad
Pytel of thoughtbot, inc. 
-"Advanced RESTful Rails" by Ben Scofield of Viget Labs 
-"Assembling Pages Last: Edge Caching, ESI and Rails" by Aaron Batalion of
Hungry Machine, LLC 
-"Asynchronous Processing with Ruby on Rails" by Jonathan Dahl of
Slantwise Design 
-"Build Your Own Distributed, Self-Configuring Rails Cluster" by Dave
Fayram  and Tom Preston-Werner of Powerset, Inc. 
-"Building a Composite Model in Active Record" by Michael Latta of
TechnoMage 
-"CRUD Doesn't Have an 'S' in It: Managing Complex Searching in Rails" by
Stephen Midgley of Hutz.com 
-"Entrepreneurs on Rails" by Dan Benjamin of Rails Machine 
-"Everyday DTrace on OSX: A Guide To Using DTrace for Your Full
Application Stack" by Scott Barron and Chad Humphries of EdgeCase 
-"Facebook Development and Performance with Rails" by Mike Mangino of
Elevated Rails 
-"Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of Rails Testing" by Dan Manges and Zak
Tamsen of ThoughtWorks 
-"Integration Testing with RSpec's Story Runner" by David Chelimsky of
Articulated Man, Inc 
-"Optimizing Rails" by Michael Koziarski of Koziarski Software Limited 
-"Surviving the Big Rewrite: Moving YELLOWPAGES.COM to Rails" by John
Straw of YELLOWPAGES.COM 
-"The Great Test Framework Dance-Off" by John Susser of Pivotal Labs 
-"The Launch: Dos and Don'ts of Real Life Deploys" by Chris Wanstrath of
Err Free 
-"The Profitable Programmer: Creating Successful Side Projects" by
Geoffrey Grosenbach of Topfunky Corporation, Tom Preston-Warner of
Powerset, Inc., Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett of Err Free, and Ben Curtis
of Catch the Best 
-"UI Design on Rails" by Ryan Singer of 37signals 
-"Using Git To Manage and Deploy Rails Apps" by Scott Chacon of Reactrix,
Inc. 
-"What To Do When Mongrel Stops Responding to Your Requests and Ruby
Doesn't Want To Tell You about It" by Philippe Hanrigou of ThoughtWorks 

Sponsors include Engine Yard, Sun Microsystems, FiveRuns,
GotThingsDone.com, ThoughtWorks, Atlantic Dominion Solutions, Code Gear,
E-xact Transactions, EnterpriseDB, GemStone Systems, Heroku, Morph Labs
and New Relic.

For complete conference information, visit: 
http://www.railsconf.com

To register, please visit: 
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/home/reg

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If you have ideas about areas you'd like to see included at the
conference, send a note to: 
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To read articles and blogs about RailsConf 2008, visit:
http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/content/news-coverage

To view keynote presentations from RailsConf2007, visit:
http://railsconf.blip.tv

To submit projects for Community Project Code- Drive and check out those
already submitted, please visit the Code Drive wiki page at: 
http://wiki.oreillynet.com/railsconf2008/index.cgi?Commun...

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at RailsConf,
contact Yvonne Romaine at:
yromaine@oreilly.com

If you would like to discuss forming a media or promotional partnership
with O'Reilly for an upcoming event, contact Avila Reese at:
mediapartners@oreilly.com


About Ruby Central
Ruby Central is the parent organization of the annual International Ruby
and Rails Conferences and is a visible presence and point of contact for
corporate sponsors interested in supporting these conferences and other
Ruby activities. For more information, visit:
www.rubycentral.org


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