Ruby & Other Jewels @AlohaRubyConf

About a year ago, inspired by the legendary Aloha on Rails, a Ruby on Rails conference organized by Seth Ladd in 2009, a bunch of regulars at a local Honolulu Ruby user group aloha.rb (http://www.meetup.com/aloharb/) decided to organize another Hawaii Ruby conference in 2012. After a lot of hard work, Aloha Ruby Conf (http://aloharubyconf.com/) is happening really soon, October 8-9 at Sheraton Waikiki Beach Hotel. The speaker line-up (http://aloharubyconf.com/program) is top-notch and if you’re a software developer in Hawaii, you should not miss this one. Whether you develop in Ruby or not, there are sessions for both getting to know both Ruby and Rails and a whole lot of sessions applicable to really any type of software development. What can you get out of Aloha Ruby Conf if you're not a Ruby developer? Well, in addition to highly educational Ruby and Rails talks (see the session schedule at http://aloharubyconf.com/schedule), the conference has several awesome talks of general interest to all software developers:

• UI Design: "The Designers are Coming!" by Glenn Gillen, "Designing and Building GitHub's Front End" by Ben Bleikamp
• Testing: "Yay! Mocks!" by Corey Haines
• Scalability: "My Server for Aiur: How Starcraft Taught Me To Scale" by Richard Schneeman
• Communication & Teamwork: "How to Crush your Conference Talk" by Ben Orenstein, "Maintain Less, Mentor More: Community Building Techniques from Open Source" by Wesley Beary, "Consultants & Rockstars, Who needs 'em?" by Lori Olson
• (No SQL) Persistence: "Git: The NoSQL Database" by Brandon Keepers
• and finally, a Head-Scratcher: "Running Heroku on Heroku" by Noah Zoschke

If you can make it, come check it out – Kama’aina registration for $149 at https://eventrainbow.com/aloharubyconf/2012?promo=LOCAL.