RubyConf Australia 2016 — Recap

A loosely categorised list of talks from RubyConf Australia 2016, along with completely arbitrary and subjective recommendations based on my own personal requirements.

Designed to complement my commentary from #chchruby Feb 2016

Transcript

2. Out of sight, out of mind? Helping teams thrive when they’re permanently Out-Of-Office Allison McMillan Debugging Diversity Catherine Jones and Dan Draper Diversity in Tech (It’s About More than Just the Hiring Process) Jess Rudder Humane Development - Empathy Ernie Miller Feedback Matters Elle Meredith Teams & Developers
3. Learning Code Good Saron Yitbarek Code Review: Pitfalls and Good Practices Thong Kuah One Undo Katrina Owen What If Shakespeare Wrote Ruby? Adam Cuppy Better Coding
4. Pursuing the Strong, Not So Silent Type: A Haskell Story Katie Miller Functional programming for Rubyists Bianca Gibson Site Availability is for Everybody Stella Cotton Winning in Production Dr Nic Williams Functional Infrastructure
5. In-spec-tion Jon Rowe Explicit Tests Tell a Better Tale Tom Ridge Security Is Hard, But We Can't Go Shopping André Arko Testing Security
6. Refinements - the Worst Feature You Ever Loved Paolo Perrotta Burn Your Idiomatic Ruby Arne Brasseur Taking Apart Ruby's Object Model John Feminella Ruby Language
7. Build and maintain large Ruby applications Enrico Teotti Event Sourcing, or Why ActiveRecord Must Die Sebastian von Conrad Rails Performance Tips Richard Huang Rails Framework