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Ryan Daigle and Blake Gentry explore all the new features in Heroku's Celadon Cedar stack.

JRuby is a 100% pure-Java implementation of Ruby with high performance, real threading, and a vast array of libraries. Chris McCann explores how JRuby can provide real value for Rails developers. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Rob Kaufman explores tools and options for improving your development process: common issues with managing tasks, starting work, committing branches, and getting completed tasks verified and deployed to production. It's all about automating the little steps because details are too easy to forget. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Brian Levine shows how easy it is to add phone services to your application using Twilio. Twilio wraps powerful telecom infrastructure with a simple REST API and offers pay-as-you-go pricing with cloud scalability. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Peter Gumeson shows off his compass-html5-boilerplate gem, which uses Compass to make it easier to integrate the HTML5 Boilerplate template into Rails apps.

Jonathan Badger explores Newick format trees, and how to manipulate them using his Newick-ruby gem. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Ian Young introduces his first gem, a human-friendly DSL for regular expressions. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Patrick Crowley shows how to turbo-charge your layouts with Compass, a lightweight stylesheet framework built on top of Haml and Sass. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Kevin Ball shows how the traditional model of username/password authentication is dying, and how Omniauth makes it all rainbows and sunshine going forward. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.

Ryan Weald gives a brief overview of Backbone.js and the advantages it has for your project. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk.