Here is Bob talking at Atlanta's DevNexus 2011 about TorqueBox. This talk is geared more to Java developers and highlights the features we've added in the short time since MagicRuby. Specifically: caching, injection, BackStage, StompBox, and BENchmarks!

Special mention should be made of Ben Browning, who did yet another fantastic job of video recording and editing. Yay, Ben!

One personal note: DevNexus was fun! It's a very well-run conference, due in no small part to our own Burr Sutter. It was also awesome hanging out with other fellow JBoss/Red Hatters, Brian Ashburn and Andrew ALR Rubinger, whose own DevNexus presentation will be posted soon.

One professional note: we've changed the injection syntax slightly. We've replaced all the cdi/topic/queue/mc/jndi method calls referenced in the slides with a single, general-purpose inject method.

Here are the slides. You can download the pdf from slideshare, if you prefer.

This past Tuesday, I had the pleasure of presenting TorqueBox to the guys at the Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group in Greenville, SC. It was a fun bunch of folks, and I appreciate them inviting me down.

Those of you that missed the talk can still enjoy the slides, though they lack that special thrill of seeing me present in person:

Here is the video from my TorqueBox talk at MagicRuby 2011:

A few comments clarifying some of my answers during question time.

• We don't hate javaists. We love all programmers who want to produce great software quickly, regardless of their language preference. We recognize there are two potential audiences for TorqueBox: javaists and rubyists. We simply believe that the javaists will have a higher "enterprisey bullshit tolerance" than the rubyists, so we measure our success by the adoption of TorqueBox by rubyists. Because we strive to encapsulate the enterprisey bullshit, and emphasize the enterprisey goodness.
• We don't hate JSF. There are some brilliant programmers who can do amazing things with it. But I'm not one of 'em. Because I'm a language guy, not a tools guy. I prefer an awesome editor to an awesome IDE. I prefer a request/response metaphor to a component metaphor. There are plenty of people who share my opinion and at least as many who don't. The beauty of TorqueBox is that it can adapt to the way each of us wants to work. It allows multiple development teams within a single enterprise to choose the tools and techniques that work best for them but still target the same shared deployment platform.
• I completely flubbed the scaling question. Even after stewing on it, I think the right answer is "it depends on your app", but scaling out (rather than up) probably makes the most sense for most apps. Your price/performance will be better on mainstream hardware, and you get to take advantage of the built-in clustering features of JBoss and mod_cluster.
• I say "basically" a lot and touch my face too much. Sorry. My new favorite phrase is "default by true".

Big thanks to two of my incredible teammates, Toby and Ben, for filming the talk. Ben also did an awesome job of editing the video. Because we're a bona fide "pants-optional" distributed team, we don't get a lot of face time with each other, and it was great hanging out with them and their families for a couple of days.

Thanks also to Jeremy for organizing a really fun, informative conference with breakfast, and thanks to Bob for encouraging us to go down there. It was a blast.

Here are the slides. You can download the pdf from slideshare, if you prefer.

I'm happy to announce that our TorqueBox talk proposal was accepted by the MagicRuby organizers last week! My daughters are particularly excited about this, as I can't very well go to Disney World without them now, can I?!

Toby Crawley, who helped me with the proposal, and Ben Browning are among the other Project Odd team members who'll be attending. It should be fun!

Although TorqueBox has long been attractive to enterprise Java guys looking to expand their toolset with Ruby, it's great to see that the JRuby ecosystem has evolved to the point that TorqueBox makes for a great development and deployment platform for the pure Ruby guys, too. My plan is to emphasize those aspects in this presentation.

So I probably ought to get started writing it. ;-)

Tonight I'll be presenting a very Rubyist-centric introduction to TorqueBox at the Asheville.rb meeting at Locomotivity.

Asheville is my old stomping-grounds, so I'm looking forward to an evening amongst the weirdos (Keep Asheville Weird!).

You may grab a PDF copy of the slides or view them here.