Entries tagged: conference

Explore our software developer William Mena’s key takeaways from Rails World 2024, where he reignited his passion for Rails and learned about the exciting future of Rails 8.

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I had the privilege of opening SquiggleConf 2024 at the New England Aquarium, sharing the story of Oh My Zsh. Highlights included inspiring talks on Excalidraw, Chrome DevTools, and web animations, plus a fun Duck Boat tour where I got to drive on the Charles River.

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Explore Ben Parisot's key takeaways from LeadDev New York 2024, covering topics like leadership, versatile management, AI in coding, and cultivating team ownership- plus more valuable insights for engineering managers and tech leaders.

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Robby attended RailsConf 2024 and enjoyed several talks, particularly those on Domain-Driven Design and offloading async tasks. They also hosted tables for Oh My Zsh during the hack day sessions and learned that the 2025 RailsConf would be the last one.

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Getting ready for RailsConf? Whether you're attending or presenting (or both!), we've got some tips to help you make the most of it.

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We're tackling common concerns about adopting Ruby on Rails in 2024, breaking down its enduring benefits and community vibes. Spoiler: Rails isn't going anywhere, folks. 🎉

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Two of Planet Argon's Ruby on Rails developers attended RubyConf 2019 in Nashville. Here are their favorite talks from the conference.

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Didn’t make it to RailsConf this year? Here are five of our favorite Rails talks from RailsConf 2018.

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So, I didn’t technically attend Google I/O 2013, this year’s iteration of the company’s developer conference; I didn’t receive a free Chromebook Pixel and I definitely didn’t sit through the 3.5-hour keynote. But I did watch a bunch of the session videos when I was likely supposed to be doing something else, like laundry or, you know, working. There were hundreds of talks over the course of the 3 days, with topics including Android, Chrome & Apps, Maps, and YouTube, and the majority of them are posted on the Google Developers YouTube channel. In comparison to last year’s flashy introductions (Google Glass, a new Android OS, the Nexus 7 tablet), the 2013 I/O was less relevant to the typical consumer. But I found this year’s focus on developers and their tools quite interesting; in particular, there were a few announcements that really caught my attention.

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Last week, Brian and I sat with our peers in rapt attention at the Seattle occurrence of An Event Apart, the inspiring one-track web conference started by Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer in 2005. Known as “the design conference for people who make websites,” AEA is a particularly acclaimed web conference for good reason. Zeldman and Meyer, visionaries famous for helping shape the web as we know it, gather a dozen of the web’s most influential creators and gifted presenters to share their thoughts, inquiries, and discoveries with the several hundred fortunate attendees.

Since you were too busy vacuuming and/or getting your tires rotated to attend, I’ve summarized the best parts. Enjoy!

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