Talks & Slides
I've spoken at several tech conferences and user groups. This page is an archive of some of those videos and slides.
Talks
Your Service Layer Needn't Be Fancy, It Just Needs to Exist
from RailsConf 2022 (☞ Slides)
The fewer the concepts, the better the code?
from Ruby Conf 2019 (☞ Slides)
Programming a Time Machine with the Timeline Programming Languages
from Pittsburgh Tech Fest 2019 (☞ Slides)
Database Design for Beginners
from RailsConf 2019 (☞ Slides)
Growing and Managing Distributed Teams
from Construx Software Leadership Summit 2018 (☞ Slides)
The Effective Remote Developer
from QCon NY 2017 (☞ Slides)
The Effective Remote Developer
from RailsConf 2017 (☞ Slides)
Can Time-Travel Keep You From Blowing Up The Enterprise?
from RailsConf 2016 (☞ Slides)
Rails, Postgres, Angular, and Bootstrap - The Power Stack
from Full Stack Toronto 2015
Storytelling via the Psychology of Professional Wrestling
from RubyConf 2015
Overcoming our Obsession with Stringly-Typed Ruby
from RubyConf 2014 (☞ Slides)
Eliminating Branch, nil, and attributes–let's get weird
from RubyConf 2013 (☞ Slides)
Services, Scale, Backgrounding and WTF is going on here?!??!
from Golden Gate Ruby Conf 2012 (☞ Slides)
Make Awesome Command-line Apps with Ruby
from Ruby Midwest 2011 (☞ Slides)
Beyond the Web
from Ruby Midwest 2011
Sneaking Scala into the Enterprise
from Scala Days 2010 (☞ Slides)
Make Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby
from Ruby Nation 2010
Slides from Other Talks
- The Fewer the Concepts, the Better The Code? (from RubyConf, 2019)
- Developer Experience After Three Years of SAAS and PAAS for Everything (from DevOps Days DC 2016)
- Can Time-Travel Keep You From Blowing Up The Enterprise? (from RailsConf 2016)
- Rails, Postgres, Angular, and Bootstrap: The Power Stack (from Full Stack Toronto 2015)
- You Might Are Gonna Need It: Avoiding the MonoRail
- Don't fear the Threads. Simplify your life with JRuby
- Test Drive the Development of Your Command-Line Applications
- Build Awesome Command Line Applications with Ruby