Hawaii Ruby On Rails Conference - Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii - October 4-6 2009

Aloha!

Waikiki is beautiful in the morning. The light breeze, sea air, and relaxed vibe fill you with energy. Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference, is excited to offer morning runs both Monday and Tuesday. These runs will be led by fellow Rails developer, surfer, and triathlete Thomas Olausson. Designed to wake you up and show you some of the beautiful scenery of the south shore.

Join Thomas and your fellow developers at 7am at the Starbucks on the corner of Kalakaua and Kapahulu, next door to the conference venue (Marriott Waikiki). The route itself is 3.73 miles and takes you along the makai (ocean) side of Kapiolani park, then around Diamond Head. You’ll be running along the crater’s slope as you look out to the surfers and wind surfers. You’ll turn around at the lookout and eventually run along the mauka (inland) side of Kapiolani Park, arriving back at the Starbucks.

This is considered an easy route, so we welcome anyone that has some running shoes and wants to explore the scenery. We’ve prepared a map of the Aloha on Rails Morning Run.

No sign up required, just meet at the Starbucks on Kalakaua and Kapahulu (easy to find, right on the corner, or ask your hotel) at 7am and be prepared for a beautiful and inspiring way to start your day! For questions, please contact Thomas.

Mahalo, and see you in Waikiki!

Aloha!

Wow, we are stoked to announce that Aloha on Rails is now SOLD OUT. Mahalo for the support, and we are working hard to put on a great show.

If you missed the registration period, we recommend that you sign up for the waiting list. We’ll email you if a seat opens.

Stay tuned for more news as the conference dates approach.

See you in Waikiki!

Aloha on Rails is proud to partner with Hawaii Information Consortium, the company that runs eHawaii.gov, to offer a grant for a Hawaii high school student interested in web programming. This grant will cover the registration costs for Aloha on Rails, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. The grant is designed to promote web development to young programmers and to connect the next generation of developers with today’s leaders in the field of software development.

The grant is open to any Hawaii high school student interested in programming, is planning to attend college, and is interested in majoring in computer science. The application deadline is midnight (Hawaii Standard Time) September 25th, 2009, so don’t delay! Learn more about the Hawaii High School Student Grant for Aloha on Rails, and fill out an application today! If you are interested in learning more about web development, or want to sharpen your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Aloha on Rails is a one day Rails tutorial and a two day conference held in Waikiki, Oahu on Oct 4-6, 2009. The tutorial is designed to teach those new to web programming how to build, test, and deploy web applications. By the end of the tutorial, students will have a working application hosted on the web! The conference itself is filled with two days of cutting edge, thought provoking, and educational topics for web developers, designers, and business owners.

Aloha on Rails is proud to invest in the next generation of web developers and computer programmers. It is our hope that by helping a young student attend this tutorial and conference, they are set on a path of education that returns them to Hawaii and its strong and growing technology community.

Mahalo to Hawaii Information Consortium for making this grant possible. Learn about all of HIC’s online services for Hawaii constituents at http://www.ehawaii.gov/.

Aloha!

On a recent trip to San Francisco, I had the pleasure of being invited to the Engine Yard offices. I was able to interview Ezra Zygmuntowicz (and others, stay tuned!), a founder and engineer of Engine Yard and a presenter at Aloha on Rails. His talk is titled “Where Do I Put This Data?”. It’s a timely and critical look at the recent explosion of non-RDBMS data storage solutions. Ezra “throws some cold water” on the dogmatic #nosql crowd, and helps us put it all into perspective. Ezra has helped deploy key-value stores such as Redis into Engine Yard’s infrastructure, so he’s sure to have some juicy stories to tell.

Meet Ezra and all of our speakers at Aloha on Rails, the premier destination event for Ruby on Rails. Register Today before the event sells out!

See you in Waikiki!

Aloha!

We’re close to selling out, and we’re anxious to meet that goal. We’ve noticed that the Rails community is extremely exited about Aloha on Rails, and for good reason! The lineup is spectacular, the venue is beautiful and relaxing, and the content is top notch. To thank all of our supporters, and to help us sell out, we’ve created an affiliate program that pays you back for registrations you send our way. For every paid registration that comes from you, you’ll earn $25. That’s a lot of surf lessons or mai tais!

Sign up for the affiliate program is quick and easy. Simply follow our Affiliate Account Creation link, create yourself an EventBrite account, and use the custom link whenever and wherever you tweet, blog, or talk about Aloha on Rails.

Thank you for helping to make the Premier Destination Event for Ruby on Rails a success. Conferences are about connecting people and exchanging ideas and stories. We look forward to seeing you in Waikiki for Aloha on Rails!

Mahalo nui loa!

Aloha!

We’re incredibly honored and excited to announce that the complete lineup of speakers and sessions has been selected for Aloha on Rails 2009, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. We could not have asked for a more experienced, engaging, and interesting group of speakers and topics. We’ve worked with the presenters to create a schedule full of stories, wisdom, and knowledge sharing that spans all areas relevant to today’s web developer. At Aloha on Rails, you will learn about:

• Engine Yard’s cloud architecture
• The Story of Git from Github
• Map Reduce from Yahoo
• TWO Scaling talks from Heroku and EnvyLabs
• Design (the big kind) from Ocupop
• Rails 3 Public API from Yehuda Katz
• Thriving with Legacy Applications from Hashrocket
• The Story of JRuby from Charles Nutter
• Rails AntiPatterns from Thoughtbot
• Question Agility with Hashrocket
• Alternative Data Stores from Engine Yard
• And much, much more!

Confirmed speakers include Chad Fowler, Obie Fernandez, Gregg Pollack, Anthony Eden, Desi McAdam, Jon Crosby, Scott Chacon, Jeremy McAnally, Sarah Mei, Charles Nutter, Yehuda Katz, Alan Gates, Jim Weirich, Chris Selmer, Michael Nieling, Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh, Corey Donohoe, Blake Mizerany, Marty Haught, Jon Larkowski, Pat Maddox, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Benjamin Sandofsky, and Nathaniel Brown.  Wow!

Of course, don’t forget about the Rails Tutorial brought to you by RailsBridge.

Register Now to lock in your seat before the premier destination event for Ruby on Rails and web developers sells out.  While we are confident Aloha on Rails has the best mind expanding content for the lowest price, the conference is much more than an amazing lineup of talks.  This Rails conference is also an investment in your career, and cross training education, and a wonderful vacation in Hawaii.

See you in Waikiki!

From our never ending quest to find you the best travel deals to Hawaii for the Aloha on Rails Conference, we bring you the latest Hawaii airfare deals from Northwest/Delta.

Sample each-way airfares* (round-trip required) for travel between Honolulu+ and:
Seattle $163
Portland, Ore. $218
Los Angeles $231
Salt Lake City $273
Kansas City, Mo. $316
Atlanta $325
Minneapolis/St. Paul $326
Detroit-Wayne County $335

As always, for complete service for all your travel to Hawaii needs, definitely give Hawaii Aloha Travel a try. They are the official travel partners for the conference, and the experts of the Hawaii vacation.

We’re proud to announce the second video interview in our series is now up! We interviewed Anthony Eden, CTO of Chi.mp and a local surfer and long time developer.

Anthony will be presenting a talk on “Technical Debt”, what it is, how to avoid it, and what to do when you have it. Anthony also shares his one Must Do when visiting Hawaii. Guesses as to what it is?

Mahalo to Anthony, and don’t forget to get your free domain name at Chi.mp!