John Bresnik discusses the ruby library for the Facebook API, Facebooker, based on his production experience building Facebook applications. Presentation includes general overview of the Facebook API, Facebooker specifics, as well as code examples.

Jared Kuolt shows how to quickly deploy your Rails application to a Slicehost VPS. This talk covers installing MySQL, Nginx, Rails and Mongrel, as well as deployment using Capistrano.

Rob Kaufman takes on database scaling with MySQL. This talk will walk you through setting up a Master (read write) Slave (read only) MySQL network, as well as a Master Master, or Multi-Master network. The talk will also cover the whys and when of database clustering.

Matt Aimonetti lays down the law on best-practice Ajax, using behavior oriented javascript with progressive enhancement.

Rob Kaufman talks about using ActionMailer safely, how to keep out of the spam box and how to test your emails before your customers see them.

Patrick Crowley gets you up to speed on using Haml and Sass. Haml is a drop in replacement for ERB that turns your views into beautiful code poetry. Sass does the same for CSS.

Matt Aimonetti demonstrates how to create awesome, Flash-powered charts by integrating Rails with amCharts.

Kevin Clark takes a break from Powerset to give a full-throttle talk on using Merb as a JSON-RPC service, god, gem2rpm, and heckle.

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

Brian Chapados shows how to install and work with the latest JRuby release.