Saturday, August 22, 2009

Vote up JavaScript talks for SXSW 2010

Attending JSConf 2009 was a real eye-opener for me: there are a lot of people using JavaScript in really interesting ways to do phenomenal things inside and outside of the browser. Projects like Phonegap, Titanium, CouchDB, SproutCore, and Cappuccino have the potential to transform many aspects of computing or at least point the way to some new paradigms.

To keep the conversation going, this led me to propose one talk and one panel for SXSW 2010:

Building Rich Web Apps with SproutCore
The JavaScript Applications Renaissance

If those sound intriguing, please consider voting at the above links, or better yet leave a comment expressing your support.

There are several other JavaScript related talks that I hope you will check out as well:

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/index/4/q:javascript

Labels: Javascript, sproutcore, sxsw

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Scaling Rails in the Cloud

Yesterday at SXSW Interactive I gave a talk called "Scaling Rails in the Cloud", about our experiences building OtherInbox using Amazon Web Services. My slides are below. When I wrote this presentation, I really came to the realization that Rails has hardly ever been the problem for us, scaling-wise. The framework has served us very well; all of our problems have stemmed from we the developers not understanding our tools as well as we could have, or not thinking things through. So the actual Rails content is light, but that's because Rails fits right into a cloud environment and we didn't have to do anything special to make it work.

Scaling Rails Applications In The Cloud

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Labels: rails, scaling, sxsw