RedDot RubyConf 2011 and Github Drinkup

I just came back from RedDot Ruby Conf 2011 in Singapore. It was a great conference that featured great rubyists and speakers like Matz, Dave Thomas, Mikel Lindsaar, Gregg Pollack.

Some of the talks that I enjoyed were Ruby Can Haz Everyone by Mikel and Under the Covers with Rails 3 by Gregg. Apart from the talks, I had some interesting discussions on API designing with Tom and Ryan that I really enjoyed. Here is a list of other talks from the conference.

The best part was attending the Github Drinkup on the second day of the conference. The drinks and food were good and the conversations awesome. Here are some pics from the day two of event and the drinkup

Apart from meeting some great rubyists, I had the chance to meet Superman, Batman and Robin. Here is a pic of them from first day of the conference

The conference was really well organized and executed. Thanks Andy for the great conference (and coffee). I’ll be back next year :)

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Speaking at RubyConf India 2011

The second edition of RubyConf India is happening this month on the 28th and 29th of May. I will be speaking on Single Page Web Applications Using Backbone.js & Ruby on Rails.

We are using Backbone.js to build the Agent Dashboard for SupportBee. We test drive our javascript code using Jasmine and Sinon JS . We use Handlebars for templating and Jammit for packaging the assets and compiling the handlebars’ files. The JS UI talks to the server using a RESTLike API (I’ll talk about why we don’t call it RESTful yet in the conference). The talk will describe this setup and walk through a small application that can demonstrate backbone’s features and patterns.

There are also several other interesting talks in the two day conference. Do checkout the schedule and register for the event. See you there!

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