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The Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference: Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity Date of Event: Friday-Saturday, April 18-19, 2008

Registration Time: Friday at 8:30am and Saturday at 10:00am

Location: The Tech Museum; 201 South Market St.; San Jose, Ca 95113

Register Now Program Overview

This two-day conference is a significant Web 2.0 Conference in the Ruby community and within the software development arena. This annual event brings Ruby and Rails developers, interactive engineers, software developers, startups, IT managers, and technical executives together in San Jose. In the past three years, Ruby has become one of the most talked-about programming languages, and Ruby on Rails has become the framework of choice for many new web applications.

Among the topics of the two day conference are How To:
* Harness the potential and power of Ruby, including best practices
* Optimize the performance of Ruby and related open source technologies
* Learn and use the newest features in Ruby 1.9 and Rails 2.0 releases
* Build affordable high performance and scalable solutions using Ruby
* Learn from experts who build successful Ruby in both the startup and enterprise spaces
* Explore the latest Ruby on Rails development in social networking platform
* Learn from Ruby Early Adopters and understand what’s happening with Ruby in the enterprise. Confirmed Speakers Include:
(please check back for updates.)

Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems, “The Rubies in Context”
Blaine Cook, Twitter
Ryan Garver, ELC, “Ruby features for Open Social Networking”
Jason Hoffman, Joyent
Anant Jhingran, IBM
Jon Lam, Microsoft, "The Borg discovers Ruby and Open Source"
James Lindenbaum, Heroku
Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs, "DRYing Up Application Development: Components That Don't Suck"
Jeff Winner, Spock Price:
$50 Platinum Pass
$219 SDForum Members
$269 Non-members

Location:

The Tech Museum
201 South Market St.
San Jose, Ca 95113