Burlington Ruby Conference

Burlington Ruby Conference

• When: July 28th - 29th, 2012
• Where: Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, 60 Lake Street, Burlington, VT

The Burlington Ruby Conference (http://burlingtonruby.com/) is a Northeast regional event for web application developers and programming enthusiasts.

It will be held near the waterfront in downtown Burlington, VT! Whether you're a Ruby, .Net, or PHP developer, or just passionate and hungry to learn, this single track conference will get you inspired! Besides great presentation line-ups (see below), industry speakers, and Vermont location, you'll be joining peers from around the region to network, eat good food, and discover new opportunities.  

Please signup and join a group of like-minded folks for two days of sessions and networking. The event is put on by the Burlington Web Application Group (btvwag.org) a local not-for profit 501-3c organization.

Speaker and Presentation Highlights

• Marc-Andre Cournoyer, Macournoyer: The 4-hour work week for Ruby hackers
• Peter Jackson, Intridea:  Location based apps.
• Joshua Hull, Twitter: Untangling the resources web with Renee
• Harold Gimenez, Heroku: PostgreSQL
• Jen Myers, Relevance: Developers Can't Design (and Other Completely Mistaken Design Myths)
• Dan Croak, Thoughtbot: The Bureau of Standards and Practices
• Alex MacCaw, Twitter: Javascript Web Applications and Asynchronous Interfaces
• Mark Bates, Metabates: Testing Javascript/Coffeescript in Rails

Sponsors and organizers

• Burlington Web App Group (Organizer)
• Engine Yard (Gold sponsor)
• Intridea (sponsor)
• Agilion Apps (sponsor)
• Main Street Landing (sponsor)