The third speaker in the spotlight series is Joe O'Brien, who, as it so happens, is the only other speaker than myself who lives in Columbus, Ohio. Joe is a principal at EdgeCase Consulting, a web design and development firm focusing fairly heavily on enterprise and web applications built with Ruby (on Rails).
Joe is teaching a 3 hour tutorial on Monday called "Vital Rails: An Introduction to the Rails Framework". The tutorial promises to be one of the most popular ones, as Ruby, and Rails in particular, is always a highly requested conference topic. Joe will be covering the Rails framework, with a focus on ActiveRecord, the framework's critical component for accessing and updating data in the database using the, uh, ActiveRecord …
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