14 Videos from LA Ruby 2009: Some Great Weekend Watching
LA Ruby was a single track Ruby conference that took place in Los Angeles (Orange County really, but we'll let them off..) at the start of April. The crack conference recording team Confreaks was in attendance and they've released 14 awesome videos from the event. Most of the videos are about 30 minutes long and you can watch them directly in your browser, download HD or SD MP4 files, or subscribe to the iTunes video podcast or Miro feed.
The overall set list:
- Resource Oriented Architecture, and Why it Matters, and How Waves Make it Easier by Dan Yoder
- Journey through a pointy forest: The state of XML parsing in Ruby by Aaron Patterson
- Sequel by Jeremy Evans
- Herding Tigers - Software Development and the Art of War by Danny Blitz
- Scaling 'most popular' lists: a plugin solution by Wolfram Arnold
- Sinatra: The ultimate rack citizen by Blake Mizerany
- Poolparty - jump in the pool, get in the clouds by Ari Lerner and Michael Fairchild
- Managing Ruby on Rails for High Performance by Bill Lapcevic
- Flying Robot: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Ruby and Arduino by Damen Evans and Ron Evans
- Johnson by Aaron Patterson and John Barnette
- Fast and Scalable Front/Back-end Services using Ruby, Rails and XMPP by Pradeep Elankumaran
- Mobilize your Rails Application by Brendan Lim
- Rhodes Framework for Mobile Client Development by Adam Blum
- The Building Blocks of Modularity by Jim Weirich
The only downside to these videos compared to most Confreaks efforts is there's a lot of reverb and buzzing on the audio tracks, but the picture quality is great and ultimately the content wins out.
June 5, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Peter,
Thanks for the plug, I think we have gotten to the bottom of the sound issue, I'll be re-transcoding the videos starting this weekend in an effort to clean it up.
Thanks again,
-Coby
June 5, 2009 at 10:10 pm
The videos might be awsome, but the sound is unfortunately awful.
June 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm
You can use bandpass filters (equalizer) to suppress the electronic buzz during playback. For example with MPlayer:
mplayer -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:-1:-3:-6:-12:-12 04-apr-2009-16-25-flying-robot-unmanned-aerial-vehicles-using-ruby-and-arduino-damen-evans-ron-evans-small.mp4
June 6, 2009 at 1:06 pm
You can actually specify the URL instead of downloading the video and still seek using the arrow- and page-keys.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:-4:-12:-12 http://larubyconf2009.confreaks.com/videos/04-apr-2009-12-05-herding-tigers-software-development-and-the-art-of-war-danny-blitz-small.mp4
June 6, 2009 at 1:08 pm
You can actually specify the URL instead of downloading the video and still seek using the arrow- and page-keys.
mplayer -af equalizer=0:0:0:0:0:0:0:-4:-12:-12 http://larubyconf2009.confreaks.com/videos/04-apr-2009-12-05-herding-tigers-software-development-and-the-art-of-war-danny-blitz-small.mp4