Talks

It’s unthinkable to build a piece of software without using existing libraries and frameworks. But reusing code written by other people comes with risks. Can we create a language that facilitates safe code reuse, across an open-source ecosystem?

Naming is hard — but at a previous company I worked for, the naming problems were more than just annoying. Based on examples of bad naming, I formulated a set of principles that I consider indispensable for any well-running tech team.

An introduction to fibers in Ruby, along with a handful of use cases.

An exploration of the business advantages of treating code as data to be analysed and transformed.

Ruby’s Enumerator class is a powerful tool for writing code for dealing with streams of data and events. This talk also shows how to effectively use enumerators for slow data sources.

A journey through the many intricacies of writing a memoization library in Ruby.