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Max Woolf


Max is an experienced software engineer with over a decade of experience in building web and mobile applications for everyone from 1-person start-ups to multinational charities and corporations. He's currently a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab.

When not in front of a computer, he's usually walking up a hill somewhere or hanging out with his dogs.


Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab


Ruby's still cool - Let's build a blog in 20 minutes


Session Type: 20 Minute Session

Ruby has a reputation for being last decade's language and Rails; last decade's framework but I still believe that Rails is unparalleled in its productivity and developer-friendliness when building web applications. I've bet my career on it.

I'm not all talk though. Watch me go from zero, to a working blog _with tests_ in 20 minutes using Ruby on Rails, live.

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