# MountainWest RubyConf 2008 speakers and registration

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**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mountainwest-rubyconf-2008-speakers-and-registration/126149 "2008-01-15T20:59:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat_eyler)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mountainwest-rubyconf-2008-speakers-and-registration/126149/1 "2008-01-15T20:59:56Z")

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MountainWest Ruby, LLC is happy to announce that registration is  
open for MountainWest RubyConf 2008 (to be held Mar 28 and 29 in  
Salt Lake City, Utah). For just $100 you get 2 days of awesome  
Rubyness (2 keynotes, 10 speaker sessions, and 2 lightning talk  
session), lunch both days, a conference t-shirt – oh, and did I  
mention the awesome Rubyness?

The speaker list has also been announced. It includes well known  
Rubyists like Giles B., Jeremy McAnally, and Joe O’Brien.  
There will be sessions on Ruby Internals, Amazon Web Services,  
CouchDB, and DataMapper. Go check out the web page for all the  
details though:

[http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/](http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/)

Don’t forget to register while you’re there!

And now, for a word from our sponsors …

This conference wouldn’t be happening if it weren’t for the  
following:

- Mozy – [http://mozy.com](http://mozy.com) (platinum sponsor)
- surgeworks – [http://surgeworks.com](http://surgeworks.com) (gold sponsor)
- Engine Y. – [http://engineyard.com/](http://engineyard.com/) (gold sponsor)
- Blue Box – [http://www.blueboxgrp.com/](http://www.blueboxgrp.com/) (gold sponsor)
- Morph – [http://www.morphexchange.com/](http://www.morphexchange.com/) (gold sponsor)

Thanks guys.

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**Author:** ![pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/858c86/32.png) [@pat\_eyler](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pat_eyler)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mountainwest-rubyconf-2008-speakers-and-registration/126149/2 "2008-01-16T20:51:49Z")

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Today we announced that Jim W. will be a keynote speaker at  
MountainWest RubyConf. We are really excited to have Jim as a Keynote  
speaker. He will be giving a keynote titled “Shaving with Ockham”

As developers, we deal with complexity every day. Our programs are  
millions  
of lines long, consisting of thousands of subroutines and hundreds of  
modules. And the smallest mistake in any one of these items can  
potentially  
bring a system to its knees.

Some problems are inherently complex. But that doesn’t mean that our  
solutions must also be complex. Finding the simple in the midst of  
complexity is the key to building systems that can solve today’s  
problems.

Jim W. is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC, a Rails development  
firm located in Columbus Ohio. Jim has over twenty-five years of  
experience  
in software development. He has worked with real-time data systems for  
testing jet engines, networking software for information systems, and  
image  
processing software for the financial industry. Jim is active in the  
Ruby  
community and has contributed to several Ruby projects, including the  
Rake  
build system and the RubyGems package software.

[http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/](http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/)