2014 Michael Ries How I Accidentally Wrote the Best Code of my Career Piotr Szotkowski Weak References Strongly Held Katherine Wu Be a better developer (no code required) Fred Heath Behavior-Driven Development: Feature this! Thorsten Ball Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks T.J. Schuck 80,000 Plaintext Passwords: An Open Source Love Story in Three Acts Michal Taszycki Ruby - Write Once, Run Anywhere Aaron Patterson Cat Care and Maintenance Konstantin Tennhard Natural Language Processing with Ruby Grzegorz Witek Patterns, patterns everywhere Arjan van der Gaag Debugging facades: dealing with imposter syndrome as a developer Arne Brasseur Functional Programming for Rubyists A lot of arrrrsome people Lightning talks Lena Reinhard This is bigger than us: Building a future for Open Source
2013 Ryan Stenhouse Écouter et répéter is SO last century Daan van Berkel Pirate Power Play: How to do computation by playing games Floor Drees How to survive family gatherings and birthday parties Jano González Ruby for your two internal programmers Mark Bates A Big Look at MiniTest Sylvain Abélard Bearded Gurus David Padilla Web applications with Ruby (not Rails) Balint Erdi Ember on Rails - Convention over Configuration on both sides of the tubes Zachary Scott Escaping Reality With Shoes Javier Ramirez Fun with Ruby and Redis Luismi Cavalle Patterns to deal with big ActiveRecord models Piotr Szotkowski Standard Library, Uncommon Uses Phil Nash How to create the perfect prototype Benoit Daloze On Benchmarking With Ruby Anthony Eden Rails: Still the Best Framework for Bootstrapping Avdi Grimm You gotta try this Ben Orenstein Frequently Asked Questions Zach Holman More Git and GitHub Secrets Mathias Bynens Ten things I didn't know about HTML Bart van Zon Numbers, because metrics matter Adam Rogers How To Win Designers And Influence Developers A lot of arrrrsome people Lightning talks
2012 Dave Worth Static Analysis and Rails Security Bartlomiej Niemtur Better State Management Laurent Sansonetti RubyMotion: Ruby in your pocket Roy Tomeij Modular & reusable front-end code with HTML5, Sass and CoffeeScript Jakob Hilden SMURF: Scalable, Modular, reUsable Rails Frontends Eric Nordmeyer Why the Beatles get more airplay than Mozart Ryan Stenhouse Cultured localisation, or 'how not to offend 1 billion people' Bernard Grymonpon Testing Chef Recipes Yann Armand Dealing with Scale at Yammer: Caching and Services Katrina Owen Therapeutic Refactoring Ben Noordhuis NodeJS Konstantin Haase We don't know HTTP Yehuda Katz Crying Over Spilt Cruft Bryan Liles Simulating the WORLD with Ruby Elliott Kember The War on Users Steve Klabnik Why should I care about Rails 4? Jim Weirich Y Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming Adam Rogers Bug Requests and Pull Reports Phil Nash JavaScript in the next generation Piotr Sarnacki Using Rails without Rails Peter Berkenbosch Spree from the trenches Piotr Szotkowski Persist, Little Objects! Julien Biezemans Cucumber.js: Cuke up your JavaScript! Aleksander Dąbrowski Sinatra autopsy
2011 John Long Design Workflows for Rails Marius Mathiesen Sleeping with the enemy Jonas Nicklas Practical testing for assorted languages Jim Gay Radiant 1.0 now and the future Brian Quinn Spree: the open source e-commerce platform Anthony Eden Build and Test APIs with Ruby and Cucumber Corey Haines Fast Rails Tests Julien Biezemans The Behaviour-Driven Programmer Ewout Van Troostenberghe Dancing with Arel: filterkit and reportkit Julian Fischer Three ways to scale towards happiness Lennart Koopman Managing the logs of your (Rails) applications Andrew Nesbitt A/B Testing everything with Split Roy Tomeij Stop Swashbucklin' and Shipshape yer Front-end Elise Huard Data-driven development
2010 Drew Neil VIM - Walking without crutches Joseph Wilk Escaping the sludgy swamp of slow tests Elise Huard Concurrency: Rubies, plural Tim Payton and Sebastian Roebke Making it an anti-pattern is not enough Carl Lerche Keynote Yehuda Katz Closing keynote Various Lightning talks
2009 Stijn Mathysen Showcas of a application for De Post Jeroen Jacobs Cucumber Bert Goethals Mistakes I made in Ruby Ivan Porto Carrero IronRuby Denis Defreyne Nanoc Tom Klaasen Prawn Frank Louwers Rails hosting Tom Maeckelberghe Validation (ASP MVC) Johan Ronsse Winston Benny Degezelle Advanced Radiant Bernard Grymonpon Advanced Caching Koen Van der Auwera Timekeeper Denis Defreyne Metaprogramming + DSL Wim Vander Schelden Building Ruby extensions with C Steven Verborgh Ruby on Android Joren De Groof Making Mojito