Talks I’ve given
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Back Up Now!
A lightning talk on why nobody backs up, and a simple setup that makes it painless.
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How to Design Awesome Experiences
Why developers can design great experiences too, because they’re users and humans first.
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Switch to SassC
A lightning talk on moving off the deprecated Ruby Sass. The short version is to get SassC.
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How to Make Your Rails App Roar With OS X Lion
A way to tap into OS X services from a Rails app, without hosting the app on a Mac.
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Getting Oriented with Compass
Turbo-charging layouts with Compass, a stylesheet framework built on Haml and Sass.
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Trucker
A gem I wrote to make it easier to migrate legacy data into Rails apps.
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Mobile Web Apps Using jQTouch
Building mobile-optimized web apps quickly with the jQTouch framework.
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Migrating Legacy Data
Importing old data into a new app before it’s finished, cleaning it up along the way, and migrating often. I gave it again with Rob Kaufman at RubyMidwest in 2010.
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Paperclip
A tour of Paperclip, a lightweight Rails plugin for handling file uploads.
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CSS for iPhones
Styling websites for the original iPhone and Mobile Safari.
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Ruby on Rails 101
An introduction to Rails for people new to the framework.
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Haml and Sass in 15 Minutes
Getting up to speed on Haml, a replacement for ERB, and Sass, which does the same for CSS.
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Rails Down Under
A report from Ruby on Rails Oceania, the Australian Rails community, and its Rails Camp.
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Headliner and Styler
Two Rails plugins I wrote, for DRYing up page titles and stylesheet tags.
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ActsNaked
My first Rails plugin, an easy way to strip whitespace from model attributes.
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Rails for Legacy Apps
The finer points of using Rails with existing applications and databases.
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Atom? WTF Is Atom?
An introduction to the Atom syndication format and publishing protocol, with Theresa O’Connor.
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acts_as_taggable
The two versions of acts_as_taggable, and a simple app built with the plugin.
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Summer of Rails Update
How the first Summer of Rails went.
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Summer of Rails
The idea behind Summer of Rails, plus my first project for it, Graffletopia.
