Announcement

LA Ruby Conference 2010

This is the second year for the LA Ruby Conference. Come and join us to learn about ruby and related technologies and software development practices that might change the way you do your job.

Registration for the conference is open. The conference on Saturday is $199.00. The training workshops on Friday are $60.00 each.

February 19-20, 2010
Holiday Inn
Burbank, CA

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Speaker

Dave Astels

Dave Astels (co-author of "A Practical Guide to eXtreme Programming" and author of Jolt Award winning "Test-driven Development: A Practical Guide") has over a quarter of a decade of experience creating software, mostly with object-oriented technologies. Dave has been studying, practicing, teaching, and coaching XP and Agile Processes since 1998. Dave has spent time working for companies such as

TogetherSoft and ThoughWorks, as well as being an independent consultant specializing in Ruby and Rails.

Currently Dave works for Engine Yard, and dabbles with OSX and iPhone programming using ObjectiveC as well as MacRuby. Dave is also diving into functional programming and learning Haskell.

Dave is the earliest proponent, contributor, and an avid user of RSpec. He attends, and speaks at, a variety of conferences globally.

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