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Nathan Colgate Clark gives a general overview of his Amazon S3 upload plugin (past, present, and future) and shares his thoughts on how it managed to stand out on GitHub. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser.

Michael Madrid discusses Styleact (a Facebook application) and how to develop Facebook apps using Ruby on Rails and the Facebooker plugin.

Patrick Crowley talks about Paperclip, a lightweight plugin for handling attachments. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Jordan Fowler reveals his new Shadow plugin that tracks attribute and association changes to ActiveRecord objects, making it easy to create activity feeds for your application.

Ryan Felton shows off how to build an Ajax-powered, CSS star rater using the ActsAsRateable plugin and Komodo Media's CSS Star Rating Redux technique.

Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.

Patrick Crowley talks about his newest plugins: Headliner and Styler.

Ryan Felton shows how to use Simple Sidebar plugin to DRY up sidebar content in applications.

Matt Aimonetti demonstrates his newest plugins: ActiveRecord Backup and MimetypeFu.