Talks
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Migrating Legacy Apps to Rails 3
I gave this tutorial at RailsConf 2011. The short version: great practices make upgrading easy.
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HTML5 Now!
I gave this talk at Refresh the Triangle in January 2010. I was just beginning to experiment with HTML5, and found preparing this talk to be a great learning experience.
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Unearthed Arcana for Web People
This is one of my favorite talks I’ve given. I gave it at Refresh the Triangle in October 2008, and again at Viget Labs in November 2008. It’s a far-ranging talk about my techniques to transform myself from an ADD-plagued procrastinator to a focused person and get more enjoyment out of both work and play.
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Extending Rails: Understanding and Creating Plugins
I gave this tutorial talk at O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference 2008. It covers a wide area, ranging from how to install Rails plugins to detailed walkthroughs of plugin code. This is a great talk to hear if you want to know more about the internals of Rails or writing extensions for any Ruby library.
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Web Application Security 2007
In December 2007, I gave this talk at Refresh the Triangle.
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Dealing with Legacy PHP Applications
Legacy PHP code has a tendency to have very particular problems. Here’s three refactorings to deal with those particular problems.