#qcon2008
6 posts
2008 - November
6 posts- QCon Special - Signing Off
- Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Ola Bini (JRuby, Ioke)
- Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
- Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Nick Sieger (JRuby) and Francesco Cesarini (Erlang)
- Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Jan Lehnardt and Chris Anderson from CouchDB
- Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Yehuda Katz
2008 - November
6 postsQCon Special - Signing Off
Wrapping up QCon, Fabio points to functional programming, non-relational databases, and Agile as strong trends, and learns about Engine Yard’s scalable service planned for Rails and Merb.
Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Ola Bini (JRuby, Ioke)
Fabio interviews Ola Bini in nearly two hours on many paradigms and languages. Before introducing Ioke, a prototype-based dynamic language for the JVM, they explore a world beyond Java and C#.
Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - John Straw (YellowPages.com) and Matt Aimonetti (Merb)
John Straw recounts rewriting 150,000 lines of untested Java into about 13,000 lines of Rails with nearly 100% coverage, after four months of preparation. Matt Aimonetti presents Merb and its Hello World benchmark.
Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Nick Sieger (JRuby) and Francesco Cesarini (Erlang)
Nick Sieger explains Rails on JRuby and Rails 2.2’s connection pool. Francesco Cesarini introduces Erlang, functional programming, concurrency, and scalability, topics Fabio considers important to the future.
Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Jan Lehnardt and Chris Anderson from CouchDB
Fabio talks with Jan Lehnardt and Chris Anderson about CouchDB and CouchRest. He argues for document-oriented databases in specific scaling cases without abandoning SQL, and considers CouchDB production-ready.
Rails Podcast Brasil, QCon Special - Yehuda Katz
In a special QCon episode, I interviewed Yehuda Katz about Merb, DataMapper, and modularity. He contrasts Merb’s architecture with Rails’ vision, but sees the disagreement as productive debate.