tektastic

Had an awesome time here for two days, listening to talks, hacking on some code, learning, networking, even managed to sign up for the UCSF gym and to take a swim. Very nice organization, excellent venue, and fantastic talks. Definitely coming back next year. For the price it's well worth it. Here are some highlights: Super useful resource for lookup up shell commands: http://shellhaters.heroku.com/posix Terminator plugin: start your dev environment as you like it. Gem install terminatorhttp://github.com/rdy/fixture_builder Factory to Fixtures converter to speed up your tests. pprof profile Ruby interpreter. Rack-Profiler project, great profiling tool. Coffee Script - wrapper (ruby-esque) for javascript; rails 3.1 supports coffee script templates Machine Learning - great talk, and O'Reiley book, http://twitter.com/igrigorik minitest fastest testing framework, many mentions, very fast, supports RSpec and Test::Unit syntax Caching: using fresh_when(:las…