http://www.austinonrails.org/articles/2008/06/10/meeting-tuesday-june-24th-7-9-pm en-us 40 Austin's own Ruby on Rails User Group <strong>UPDATE: Location: DATRAN MEDIA in the Omni Hotel Bldg. (7th & Brazos) - 8th floor - either meet by elevators or if they are unlocked, head on up!</strong> <p/><p/> Folks, we've got a stunningly good meeting lineup this month. In fact, it's safe for you all to come back after you skipped my talk last time. ;-) I am sad to say that I actually won't be able to attend this month's meeting, as I'll be in the Bay Area at Velocity Conference. I am leaving the emcee duties in Josh Baer's capable hands. If you are wanting to keep up to date with Rails or performance tweak some existing apps, you *must* come out to the meeting this time. <p/><p/> <h2>Client-Side Performance Measurement & Optimization by Eric Falcao</h2> <p/><p/> Performance optimization tends to focus on topics like database tuning or server-side caching with the goal of getting response times as low as possible. A recent trend in client side optimization has been found to provide huge performance improvements to the user's experience. <p/><p/> In this talk, we will explore how to best measure the client-side download time and look at how to implement best practices (from O'Reilly's High Performance Web Sites) using a mongrel/rails/nginx stack. <p/><p/> Eric Falcao is a software developer at FiveRuns who has a passion for Internet startups and the business of software. Formerly of the .NET world, Eric is glad to be a part of the Ruby and Rails community and an advocate for the great startup climate in Austin. He blogs at <a href="http://austinentrepreneur.wordpress.com">http://austinentrepreneur.wordpress.com</a>. <p/><p/> <h2>What's Coming in Rails 2.1? by Steven Smith</h2> <p/><p/> Rails 2.1 was announced at this year's Rails Conference and had 1,400 contributors which resulted in 1,600+ patches. A lot has been done since the release of 2.0, which occurred approximately six months ago. This session will cover the major new features of Rails 2.1 including UTC-based migrations, better timezone support, and better caching. <p/><p/> Steven Smith is the Vice President of Engineering and co-founder at <a href="http://otherinbox.com/">OtherInbox</a>. He also founded FiveRuns, a venture-backed start up with the goal of bringing a simpler, smarter solution to the Ruby on Rails monitoring and management marketplace. Prior to FiveRuns, Steven was the CTO of Tonic Software and SVP of R&D at Neon Systems. He was also Founder and CEO of Relational Development, Inc., a software company specializing in System Management solutions from 1991 to 1998. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:08:00 -0700 urn:uuid:689b75c4-0583-46e9-8d58-de89d1ea2784 Damon Clinkscales http://www.austinonrails.org/articles/2008/06/10/meeting-tuesday-june-24th-7-9-pm Meeting Ruby Rails performance tips rails2.1 rails ruby fiveruns otherinbox