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SVG Charts and Graphics with RubyRailsConf 20152015-04-21
Shows that Ruby can generate SVG instead of pulling in a heavy JS library, actually building bar line and donut charts as XML using rect path circle and text…
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SVG charts and graphics with RubyMountainWest RubyConf 20152015-03-09
Shows how to generate SVG charts in Ruby instead of shipping a 100 KB JavaScript library like d3, with runnable examples: a bar chart built from rect elements…
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Lightning Talks (Day 1)Rocky Mountain Ruby 20142014-09-24
Five short demos promise concrete takeaways: how Teen Hackathons use Ruby and python with Codeacademy Labs to run cipher scavenger hunts and games and even…
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The Short and Happy Lives of TCP and HTTP RequestsGoGaRuCo 20142014-09-19
Follows a single HTTP request from browser to OS to router to server and back, showing why latency dominates over bandwidth (speed‑of‑light sets a lower bound…
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Biggish Data With Rails and PostgresqlCascadia Ruby 20142014-08-11
Demonstrates that conventional ActiveRecord patterns break when tables hit hundreds of millions of rows and databases approach a terabyte of data, and gives…
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Biggish Data With Rails and PostgresqlRailsConf 20142014-04-22
Database conventions break once tables hit hundreds of millions of rows: Honeybadger runs ~1 TB of error rows and ingests ~2 GB/day, and naive count() or…
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The hacker's guide to usability testingCascadia Ruby 20132013-10-14
Claims a tiny, low-cost process finds the real problems: run 40 minute sessions, give printed scenarios, record with screen sharing and screencasts and sit…
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