Nicolas Barrera

DrummerHead (twitter) is the lead Designer working at Cubox and has years of experience being a certified Expertologist. You can call what he does UX, UI, IA, Usability, Accesibility, Front end; or any other hyped acronym you want. In truth, he is just the bridge between information and humans getting what they want in the fastest and best way possible. 

In his talk he will present the concept of responsiveness and teach with examples how to make a layout responsive with the one-two punch of fluid layouts and media queries. Also how to make the interaction between designers and programmers be truly collaborative and not just a pass-me-down PSD from the designer to implementors and programmers.

Florian Gilcher

Florian Gilcher (github, twitter) is enjoying the ruby community since 2004. After using Rails most of the time, he is now involved in the Padrino project. He contributes to the Ruby community by working on the german ruby website and by providing a german discussion board. During day, he runs a consulting company specialized in backend systems.

Florian well tell us what he thinks about the “Fear of adding processes”.

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.

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.

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.

Jim Gay

Don’t you know Jim Gay (github, twitter) ? He’s a founder of Saturn Flyer LLC, core team member of Radiant CMS and, of course, speaker at wroc_love.rb. As an author of not yet released Clean Ruby book he’s able to talk about good object-oriented design and DCI architecture. He’s not only programmer, but also awards winning graphic designer and co-host of Ruby 5 podcast.

Martin Sústrik

If you are working on small Rails applications you might not have heard about 0MQ but if need to deploy fast and highly scalable systems exchanging tons of messages than 0MQ is probably already on your radar. Feel no fear if you know nothing about it becuase Martin Sústrik (twitter, 250bpm), the creator is going to explain it in his talk. 0MQ is currently getting its momentum, Mongrel2 uses it, CERN is considering it. Martin participated in the past in the creation and reference implementation of the AMQP standard and now he is working on integration of messaging technology with operating systems and the Internet stack. Might sound crazy but given Sústrik achivements on this field we wouldn’t be surprised if it works. Make sure you read his last blog post “ØMQ: Mission Accomplished” that covers almost the whole story of 0MQ from begininnig to the current state and future vision.

Steve Klabnik

If you follow us on Twitter you already know this - Steve Klabnik, one of last year’s Ruby Heros, will speak on wroc_love.rb. He’s a teacher, aspiring digital humanities scholar, and open-source developer. He also maintains Hackety Hack, which helps to learn software development via Ruby. Currently he’s writting book about APIs titled “Get some REST.” So be prepared for great talk and long discussions about OOD, APIs etc. Don’t forget to follow him on twitter. He is usually having some interesting conversions with Avdi.