Presentations

These are some of the formal presentations that I've given at various venues. Mostly at the St. Louis GNU/Linux Users Group, and the St. Louis UNIX Users Group. I've also spoken to larger groups at conferences and such.

I try to make all my presentation materials available on this page, but that's not always possible. Also note that I tend to provide additional material verbally, that's not included in the text of the presentations. So you should always attend live when I'm presenting! ;)

Presentations are listed in chronological order, with the most recent listed first.

• 2015-11-16: Too Late to Estimate (lightning talk) [RubyConf]
  • Video
• 2015-11-15: Ruby Preserves (Micro ORM following Data Mapper pattern) [RubyConf]
  • Video
• 2015-10-12: Ruby Preserves [STL Ruby]
• 2015-09-16: Alternatives to ActiveRecord [WindyCityRails alternate]
• 2015-08-22: Immutable Infrastructure [Madison+ Ruby]
  • Video
• 2015-08-12: Immutable Infrastructure [SLUUG]
• 2015-08-10: Immutable Infrastructure [STL Ruby]
• 2015-05-11: Retrospectives [Mercy Agile Users Group]
• 2015-04-23: HTTP Exploration (workshop) [RailsConf]
  • video (introductory material)
• 2015-03-19: How the Web Works - Part 2 [STLLUG]
• 2015-03-11: How the Web Works - Part 1 [SLUUG]

• 2014-11-17: Ruby Idioms You're Not Using Yet [RubyConf]
  • Source
• 2014-11-10: Ruby Idioms You're Not Using Yet [STL Ruby]
• 2014-11-06: Ruby Idioms You're Not Using Yet [Lambda Lounge]
• 2014-03-12: Curl and Wget (tutorial/demo) [SLUUG]
• 2014-03-10: The Crystal Programming Language [STL Ruby]
  • Video
  • Source
• 2014-02-10: Ruby ORMs [STL Ruby]

• 2013-07-18: PostgreSQL [STLLUG]
• 2013-01-17: How to Give a Presentation [STLLUG]
  • Source: https://github.com/booch/presentations/tree/master/how_to_give_a_presentation

• 2012-11-15: New Web Technologies (demo) [STLLUG]
• 2012-11-14: HTML 5 [SLUUG]
• 2012-06-21: Testing Web Apps with Selenium, Capybara, and Cucumber

• 2011-08-08: Writing Better Rails [STL Ruby]
  • Audio coming soon
• 2011-07-21: APT Packaging Tool [STLLUG]
• 2011-03-09: StackOverflow and ServerFault Q&A Sites (demo) [SLUUG]

• 2010-12-16: HAML/SASS/CoffeeScript [STLLUG]
• 2010-10-21: Postfix [STLLUG]
• 2010-08-11: Features of GNU grep (demo) [SLUUG]
  • --count, --context, -A, -B, -e, --color, etc.
• 2010-02-10: Creating a Web Site From Scratch (demo) [SLUUG]
  • Domain registration, DNS hosting, virtual hosting, OS, Apache, MySQL, WordPress

• 2009-08-20: Git [STLLUG]
• 2009-06-18: Open Source Licensing: What You Need to Know [STLLUG]
• 2009-05-09: Open Source in an Economic Downturn (as presented) [Free Software Expo]
  • Working Version
• 2009-04-08: WordPress (demo) [SLUUG]
• 2009-02-19: Mozilla-based Apps: Miro, Songbird, Komodo (demo) [STLLUG]
• 2009-01-15: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Digital TV [STLLUG]

• 2008-12-18: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives [STLLUG]
• 2008-02-11: jQuery [STLRUBY]

• 2007-12-20: PHP Best Practices [STLLUG]
  • Working Version
• 2007-07-19: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About HDTV [STLLUG] (slide show, as originally presented)
  • Updated Version (corrections, more links, some additional info)
  • Audio - WAV, MP3
  • Transcript (coming soon)

• 2007-03-15: Survey of GUI Email Clients (demo) [STLLUG]

• 2006-12-21: Democracy Player (demo) [STLLUG]
• 2006-10-19: Troubleshooting Linux Problems (demo) [STLLUG]
  • Follow-up email with some details about what was demoed (username: discuss, password: freely)
• 2006-06-14: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives [SLUUG]
  • Notes
  • Changes
• 2006-02-16: Financial Apps for Linux [STLLUG]

• 2005-11-17: Modern Web Development, Part 2: AJAX, RIA, and Web 2.0 [STLLUG]
• 2005-10-20: Modern Web Development: XHTML, CSS, and AJAX [STLLUG]
• 2005-02-17: An Introduction to XML [STLLUG]

• 2004-10-13: Intro to Wikis [SLUUG]
• 2004-09-16: Mozilla Extensions [STLLUG]
• 2004-07-14: SpamAssassin [SLUUG]
• 2004-05-12: File Permissions: A Tutorial [SLUUG]
• 2004-03-18: Scripting GUI Applications In Linux [STLLUG]

• 2003-07-17: Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About Hard Drives [STLLUG]
• 2003-04-23: What's So Great About Open Source? [Monsanto]
• 2003-02-12: Why Linux Sucks [SLUUG]

• 2002-10-17: GUI Design for Non-Programmers [STLLUG]
• 2002-08-15: Sharp Zaurus: Linux Handheld [STLLUG]
  • Original KPresenter format

• 2001-12-20: Distro Fever: Red Hat [STLLUG]
  • Original PowerPoint format
• 2001-05-24: XML: Extending the Possibilities [ITEC]
  • Original KPresenter format
• 2001-05-23: Rethinking the Process: When to Consider Open Source [ITEC]
  • Original KPresenter format
• 2001-05-23: Turning on the LAMP [ITEC]
  • Original KPresenter format
• 2001-04-11: UNIX Tricks and Tips [SLUUG]
• 2001-03-15: New Features of the Linux 2.4 Kernel [STLLUG]
  • Original KPresenter format

• 2000-07-20: Compiling a Linux Kernel [STLLUG]