Madison Ruby Conference is a more than one track conference committed to bringing together two great communities. The conference will showcase to locals the assets of the Ruby community and allow visitors to Madison a chance to experience one of the best, brainiest, and least expensive places in the US to live and work.

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Advanced Git with Matthew McCullough

This full day Git workshop takes you beyond the basic edit, add, and commit workflow to deep Git features that benefit developers appreciative of what Git's flexible DVCS model brings to hard-core software development. You'll learn how to harvest and inspect commit-specific merges, leverage interactive rebase, and search through history with precision and speed. Tags, GPG signatures, and other cryptographic integrity features will become clear, and pushing and pulling will be controlled with newfound precision.

This workshop requires attendees to have basic to intermediate level familiarity with Git.

RailsBridge Womens Outreach Workshop

The target audience is anyone who has a laptop computer and is willing to devote a Wednesday evening and full day on Thursday to learning how to develop a web application using the popular Ruby on Rails framework. Most attendees are programmers who are looking to update their skills — some are unemployed, some are hoping to leave their current jobs and others just want to keep their skills sharp and understand the latest technology.

Although not exclusively for women, volunteers like Desi McAdam focus their workshops on outreach to women in order to create gender diversity in the tech community.

Registration for this free workshop has not yet opened. Please join the Mad-Railers group for more updates.

Introduction to Ruby with Jeff Casimir

If you’re looking for your first introduction to programming this is the course for you. You’ll jump right in write code. The Level 1 course is an introduction to Ruby, data structures, flow control, conditions, basic I/O, and manipulating data. No prior programming experience is necessary.

We'll work on an "Extract-Translate-Load" (ETL) project, starting with a file full of spreadsheet data, manipulating individual elements, generating form letters, and looking up Congressional district data via a web-based API.

Design Eye for The Dev Guy or Gal

• Part 1: Objectifying design
• Part 2: Dive into CSS3 and HTML5
• Part 3: Introducing Sass
• Part 4: Putting it all together with Compass

Killer After-Party!

When surveyed the locals had many suggestions for putting on a great event but, there was one unanimous suggestion: A Killer After-Party. We listened. We are putting together an epic bash to celebrate the success of our inaugural event. The after-party will be held at the rooftop sculpture garden of the Musuem of Contemporary Art. The soundtrack will be provided by a mix of local musicians from the Madison and Ruby communities.

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How To Get Here

Overture Center for the Arts
201 State Street, Madison, WI