Favourite RubyConf16 Talks

Favourite RubyConf16 Talks.md

My favourite talks from RubyConf 16, and a one liner on each.

http://www.rubyconf.org.au/2016

http://lanyrd.com/2016/rubyconf-au/

11th Feb

9:15am 10 Years and 10 Mistakes

Awesome inspirational talk on life lessons. Very good speaker.

presented by Jeff Casimir

11:05am Build and maintain large Ruby applications

Interesting talk on a take on using gems for dependencies. Oh and Mario’s cafe. Yes, italian speaker.

presented by Enrico Teotti

12:05pm Pursuing the Strong, Not So Silent Type: A Haskell Story

Haskell in production at Facebook. Very approachable talk, but unfortunately very light on details too.

presented by Katie Miller

2:00pm Event Sourcing, or Why ActiveRecord Must Die

Motivating event sourcing

presented by Sebastian von Conrad

2:25pm In-spec-tion

Rspec core team member! Talk was a bit rushed due to nerves, but QA was great

presented by Jon Rowe

4:25pm Burn Your Idiomatic Ruby

Cool review of ruby styles, and a flash through of some newer ones.

presented by Arne Brasseur

12th Feb

9:15am One Undo

Best done talk on refactoring.

presented by Katrina Owen

10:05am Refinements - the Worst Feature You Ever Loved

Very good speaker on monkey patching/refinements.

presented by Paolo Perrotta

4:00pm What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby?

Pure entertainment

presented by Adam Cuppy