Babel hostel is offering 10% discount for wroc_love.rb attendants.
Meet the organizers: Paweł Pacana
Does “disk utilization”, “IOPS” or “disk latency” say something to you ? How about “io-wait” or “slab cache” ? I was also not familiary with many of them unitl I met Paweł. The thing is: sometimes when we deal with high level stuff, acceptance testing, business value of project, DCI, MVC drama, we tend to forget that our applications run on raw hardware in real operating systems. Not enough RAM, full disk, starving disk, memory leaks, open files limits, all of them can make your beautifuly written application useless unless you know what caused the problem and how to fix it. That’s why it is so good to have Paweł in the team. He is not only a great Rails and Event Machine developer but also has a proper understanding on how some decisions (such us database, http server, application server, programming model) will affect performance and scalabilty of the overall solution. Paweł is our “self-proclaimed community manager” with highest number of talks given on DRUG, and “+1” achievments on our irc channel.
Piotr Szotkowski
Piotr Szotkowski (github, twitter) is an assistant professor at Warsaw University of Technology (where he happily sneaks Ruby, EventMachine and newfangled database systems into the creaking world of twentieth-century academia), a Ruby developer at Rebased and an alumnus of Mendicant University.
He’s also a long-time contributor to various open source projects for the civic sector and co-organiser of NetWtorek - monthly NetTuesday meetings of people from the NGO/non-profit and IT sectors, as well as SocHack- quarterly 48-hour hackatons for worthy causes, in coordination with Random Hacks of Kindness, Open Data Day and Open Education Week .
Krzysztof Kowalik
Krzysztof Kowalik (twitter, github) might not have the most popular blog (although you must admit there is some beauty in it) but his most recent “Are you fucking coding me ?” project should be definitely on your radar. He is going to tell us something about bidirectional web and distributed Rails applications. Krzysiek has recently become a full time Go developer and claims that he has no will to go back to Ruby. Maybe we will be able to persuade him or maybe he will convince us all to become Go developers instead. We are sure that it will be worth to hear about his previous experiences, learn from them and maybe even try to apply some patterns in our distributed applications.
Vim workshop
If you are a progressing Vim user I bet you are familiar with high quality Vimcasts recorded by Drew Neil (twitter). An author of yet-to-be-released “Practical Vim” book will deliver hands-on Vim training just before the conference!
If you already have a ticket there is special 20% discount available for you: wroclovers12 .
Details and registration for morning and afternoon masterclasses.
Roy Tomeij
Roy Tomeij (twitter, linkedin) is co-founder of 80beans in Amsterdam, where he takes care of front-end architecture using an agile approach. He loves front-end meta languages like Haml, Sass & CoffeeScript because they are DRY, produce quick results & lead to better maintainable code. Roy has nearly seven years of professional front-end experience in Rails projects.
Roy presentation will be about how to create modular and truly reusable front-end code with HTML5, Sass & CoffeeScript. Make sure you read some of his blog entries, they are totally worth it.
Meet the supporters: Shelly Cloud
Shelly Cloud is a platform for hosting Ruby on Rails applications. It is based on the idea of putting the developer in charge. Deploys and cloud management are all done through git and a simple console utility distributed as a Ruby gem.
Set up any combination of database and application instances, but have the comfort of caching and SSL termination provided by our frontend servers. Use PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis, and relax, because all your data is backed up. Plus, you get a cluster filesystem shared between all your instances, so no need to host files with external services
Check it out at http://shellycloud.com
Michał Taszycki
After leaving the corporate universe and developing a few computer games (like Motorstorm or Saints Row 2) for the PS3, XBOX and PC, he entered the Ruby World. Today, he is making delicious software at Applicake, managing projects and training fellow programmers during Code Retreats. Michał (twitter, github) enjoys pushing people out of their comfort zones and into new rewarding experiences. He can talk for hours about how seemingly unrelated skills (such as running, dancing or juggling) can help you become a better programmer.
So if you are looking for a speaker who can talk about various different topics ranging from testing JEE applications, using vertex and pixel shaders or implementing web applications, reserve your time for Michał Taszycki talk.
Don’t despair, we’ll release next batch of tickets on monday 13.02 18:00 CET. In the meantime expect first draft of conference agenda.
You can still buy supporter tickets to help us organize this great event!
