Leonardo Borges

JRuby On Rails and the “Enterprise”: Tackling dependency management

I’ve been developing software for 9 years through companies of various sizes – including private, public ones and the government – and my knowledge spans a range of technologies with a clear emphasis on enterprise applications with the Java Platform – with all its intricate architectures and frameworks – and, in the past couple of years, Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I like being on the cutting edge and am currently leading a JRuby project that integrates a Rails front-end with our Java back-end [legacy]services.

Scott Chacon

Mastering Git

Scott is a Git evangelist and Ruby developer employed at GitHub.com. He is the author of the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage (git-scm.com) and the Git Community Book (book.git-scm.com). Scott has presented at RailsConf, RubyConf, Scotland on Rails, RubyKaigi, OSCON and a number of local groups and has done corporate training on Git across the country.

Michael Dirolf

An Introduction to MongoDB

Mike Dirolf is a Software Engineer at 10gen, where he works on the MongoDB project. He mainly works on client drivers for Python and Ruby, but also takes time out to talk about MongoDB – he has presented at the EuroPython conference as well as Python, Ruby and PHP meetup groups in New York City, London and San Francisco. Mike received a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. Born in Albany NY, Mike currently resides in New York City.

Michał Domański / Michał Chruszcz

Caching Techniques in Python

Michal Chruszcz is a Python software developer and team leader at Sensi Soft Ltd, provider of classified ads solutions. He’s been actively using Python in various projects for more than five years, gradually focusing on building large-scale, effective web applications combining top notch technologies.

Michał Domański is fan of thinking-before-coding, currently working as SensiSoft Ltd. He mainly spends his time between reading RSS feeds and coffee thinking about what to write and when and why and sometimes he even writes some code. Always interested in doing things faster and better, he still spends a lot of time learning new tricks and turning that knowledge into working code.

Maciej Dziergwa

The state of Plone

Maciej Dziergwa is co-founder of STX Next – python oriented comapny (www.stxnext.pl). He has been developing Plone solutions since 2004. He is building ans supporting Python and Plone community in Poland through www.plone.org.pl portal.

Obie Fernandez

Rapid Application development with Rails and MongoDB

Obie is a recognized tech industry leader and was a successful independent consultant before founding Hashrocket with Mark Smith and Marian Phelan. Obie has been hacking computers since he got his first Commodore VIC-20 in the Eighties, and found himself in the right place and time as a programmer on some of the first Java enterprise projects of the mid-Nineties. He has been evangelizing Ruby and Rails online via blog posts and publications since early 2005 and specializes in the development and marketing of large-scale, web-based applications. Obie is the author of The Rails Way, a comprehensive guide to Ruby on Rails standards and development.

Maciej Fijalkowski

The speed of PyPy

I’m a core developer of the PyPy project, involved in it for the last couple of years. In recent years I spent a lot of time improving the dynamic compilation features of PyPy as well as improving the general PyPy compatibility.

Julian Fischer

Enterprise Ruby and Python Hosting

Julian Fischer, CEO of Avarteq GmbH and associate lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences HTWdS in Saarbrücken, Germany, is delivering the lecture, Ruby on Rails. His main focus is about developing architectures for scalable and distributed web applications as well as the creation of hostings infrastructures such as RailsHoster.de and EnterpriseRails.de.

Markus Franz

Enterprise Challenges: Ru/Py for Big Business

Markus Franz is Managing Partner of SUGOMA KG, a leader in IT Consulting & Services. With several business divisions, Sugoma offers a full set of services from basic training to high-end customized server infrastructures. Prior, Markus Franz was Chief Technology Officer of BLOGFORM GMBH, a leading publisher of digital magazines. He has been working for customers like Adidas and Swarovski, for example. Also, Markus Franz was researcher at University of Hannover.

David Goodger

Community-oriented talk.

David Goodger is a full-time Python programmer working in the financial sector, founder and architect of the Docutils project and reStructuredText, an editor of the Python Enhancement Proposals (or PEPs), chair of PyCon 2008, a member of the Python Software Foundation, a Director of the Foundation for the past two years, and its Secretary. David lives near Montreal with his wife and two children.

Łukasz Langa / Wojciech Lichota

Compiled Websites with Plone, Django and SSI

The authors work for STX-Next Ltd., part of Softax GP, a leading solution provider for the banking sector in Poland. Banks using solutions by Softax GP are among others: PKO BP, Inteligo, BRE Bank, Volkswagen Bank, BGŻ. One of the most important aspects of the company’s mission is participation in the Python community, manifested by conference and code sprint attendance, releasing Open Source products, translation of existing products to Polish, and maintaining Websites and mailing lists like www.plone.org.pl and plone-pl@lists.plone.org. One example of an Open Source product released by the company is the static content compiler for Plone, presented in the talk.

Michał Łomnicki / Nick Sutterer

Cells and Apotomo – Rails Plugins for Creating Reusable Web Components.

Michał Łomnicki – mainly programmer, part-time administrator. He commenced his career as ruby developer in 2005. Then he was the system admin on his university, where he extensively urged coworkers to put away bash scripts in favor of ruby scripts. However the dark times came and he had to earn his bread as .NET developer. Fortunately his current boss invited him to work in Rails in Starware (http://www.starware.com.pl) what he’s happily doing up to this day. Michał is still trying to combine his after-work projects with private life, but because of some fortune’s prank the latter somehow predominates.

Nick Sutterer – Having a more or less classical career from Perl to PHP and Python, Nick finally fell in love with Ruby. What sounds boring is the beginning of a true romance, which results in the two Rails plugins Cells and Apotomo, both introducing heavily component-oriented paradigms. Although his laptop doesn’t feature a glowing fruit on the lid and his best mate for text is a legally downloaded open-source editor, Nick is trying to enhance Rails by providing abstract controls, widgets and statefulness to the framework for 3 years now. Besides refering to himself in the third person he enjoys showing off by wearing RubyConf speaker shirts at projects where he’s involved as freelancing software architect. He’s living in Germany and thus has an obligatory devotion to beer.

Eleanor McHugh

The Ruby Plumber’s Guide to *nix

London-based hacker Eleanor trained as a physicist and for the last thirteen years has worked on real-time software systems ranging from safety-critical cockpit avionics to mission-critical broadcast automation. She’s always enjoyed high-level languages and discovered the Joy of Ruby in 2001. Since 2005 she’s worked predominantly with Ruby and related technologies with a particular interest in low-level integration and application scalability.

Paolo Negri

RabbitMQ, Ruby and Python staring at the looking glass

Mutant kind of opensource geek, I started the professional career in 2001 as Linux system administrator getting gradually more and more involved in system integration projects using mainly perl and python and then since beginning of 2006 I’ve been consistently working on ruby based projects in innovative small and large companies all around Europe. Web applications backends are my current main focus. URLs: http://geekin.gs http://assertbuggy.blogspot.com http://github.com/hungryblank

Charles Oliver Nutter

JRuby: Pushing the Boundaries

Charles Oliver Nutter has been programming most of his life, as a Java developer for the past decade and as a JRuby developer for over four years. He currently works at Engine Yard and co-leads the JRuby project, an effort to bring the beauty of Ruby and the power of the JVM together. Charles believes in open source and open standards and hopes his efforts on JRuby and other languages will ensure the JVM remains the preferred open-source managed runtime for many years to come. Charles blogs at blog.headius.com and tweets as “headius” on Twitter.

Wojtek Potrzebowski

Biological complexes modeling with Python

I am a third year PhD student in the Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering in the International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB). More information about the group can be obtained from our website: http://www.genesilico.pl/.

My main research interest is multi-resolution/scale protein-protein, protein-nucleic acids complexes modeling. Based on the combination of the various experimental data i.e. coming from different techniques and different resolutions (Cryo-EM, SAXS/SANS, X-Ray Crystallography, Cross-linking) and ab-initio modeling (where data are missing) I am modeling the protein-protein, protein-nucleic acid complexes. As it is novel approach, in order to address this goal I work on the development of software (mostly Python based).

Marcin Raczkowski

Replacing Regular Expresions with Parsers – Introduction to Treetop and Polygot

Marcin Raczkowski is second year student of Computer science at AGH university, seasoned freelancer, with more then 3 years of Ruby development experience. He is active member of KRUG, 2 times lead Ruby workshops at SFI (2008 and 2009). He made several contributions to OS projects, recently he had became one of core developers of spree e-commerce platform.

Kristian Rother

Software Engineering in a Bioinformatics Lab

PhD in bioinformatics at the Charite Berlin 2006, Postdoc at IIMCB Warsaw 2006-2009, DAAD fellowship at UAM Poznan 2009+

Several research papers, software, courses, art exhibitions, and tweets. www.rubor.de

Mark Rudolph

Generative 3D in Ruby

Mark Rudolph is a software designer and interactive 3D artist and musician. Currently he is a professor in Information Technology at Slovak Technical University, and previously at Information Technology University in Copenhagen. He also worked on space station imaging software at Rovsing Aerospace, and worked at Silicon Graphics in California as a VRML director and Java designer. He worked at AT&T Bell Labs doing Multimedia research and multi-processor audio software. He also worked as a software designer for a foreign exchange trading system for National Australia Bank. He has lead a Canadian National Research Council project in artificial intelligence for interactive 3D.

He also has a Phd in Mathematics in Transfinite Set Theory. His current love is dynamic Ruby software, web3D channels and electronic music.

Serge Smetana

Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications

Serge is a developer in Pluron Inc., the startup from Silicon Valley working on Acunote (http://acunote.com) – the enterprise project management and Scrum software built with Rails. As a software engineer, Serge has three years of experience of real world Rails application development, deployment and performance optimization. Currently lives and works in Ukraine.

James Williams

Griffon: Swing just got fun again

James Williams is a Sun Certified Programmer specializing in desktop Java and rich Groovy clients. He was a successful participant in the 2007 Google Summer of Code where he worked to bring easy access to SwingLabs components to the Groovy language. He is a Groovy enthusiant and a co-founder of the Griffon project, a rich desktop framework for Java applications using Groovy.

Tarek Ziadé

The Python Packaging Ecosystem

I am a Python developer, located in Dijon, France. I work at Ingeniweb as the Director of Development. I founded a French Python User group, called Afpy, and I have written several articles about Python for several magazines, and a few books in French and in English. I am trying to keep this page up-to-date with my latests activities. Visit my blog for fresh news, or suscribe to my twitter.