European Rails Conference Railsberry 2012 – the official video!

So here we are with the Railsberry official video and a full photo coverage! Please, enjoy & help us spread the magic!

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We’re going offline for a couple of days!

Hey Railsberry folks! Hope you all got back home safe and sound after Railsberry!

Great vibe and energy filled the Applicake HQ this week! So many pictures, videos, tweets from you guys. And soooo many good memories… We put them into one Railsberry story. We also uploaded some pics here and two preview videos of the Day 1 and Day 2. More will follow soon so stay tuned!

We’re going offline for a couple of days. It’s a looong weekend in Poland (in fact, a whole free week ;) and we’ll be back on the 7th of May. So all video recordings, pictures and presentations will be ready by mid May.

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Railsberry Jam app – we’d love to have your feedback!

Railsberry Jam was designed to make your conference experience even more fun. And we hope it did! We managed to cover around 50% of Railsberry attendees with the iOS version. And together with the Android one – 76%!

It would be great if you could share your thoughts, comments, suggestions, etc. answering a few questions (it won’t take long, promise!)

You will find them here. THANKS!

 

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A GIAAAAAANT thanks to all Railsberry sponsors!

I want everybody to get up off your seat
And get your arms together, and your hands together
And give me some of that o-o-old soul clapping…

Again, special thanks to our amazing sponsors for helping us add all that magic to the world of Rails! We <3 you!

 

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A short preview of Railsberry Day 1

Here’s a sneak peek at the Railsberry Day 1. Wait for more!

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Watch the Railsberry 2012 intro video!

So here it is – the sweet conference trailer :-)
Big ups to Kasia, Socha and Emi – our brilliant graphic designers! And many thanks to Lee from The Happy Puppy Records for the great tune!

Enjoy!

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Railsberry Jam app – your sugar-laced mobile companion!

With just one day left to Railsberry we have a little surprise for you. To make your life at the conference even sweeter we’ve made two mobile apps (iOS & Android!) that will be your local Kraków companion!

The Railsberry Jam will send you live news, local tips and last-minute changes to the agenda. In addition, you can expect party locations, jokes, random yays – pretty much everything that could make your KRK experience more fun!

What kind of news can you expect? Well, there are four types of notifications:


Updates – anything conference related (i.e. agenda, breaks, venue)

Tips – cool stuff to do or great places to eat at in Krakow.

Party – updates on the afterparties and other great place to party in Krakow.

Random yays and lots of love from Applicake peeps :-)

Go now to the AppStore or Google’s Play and grab the one you prefer!

TIP! Railsberry Jam will ask you for permission to receive push notifications. Just to state the obvious – it’s a mechanism that lets us notify you of Railsberry updates even when you’re not using our app. We promise not to spam you too much :-)

IMPORTANT! An update for the iOS version will hit the AppStore late Wednesday (i.e. today) or early Thursday. And you definitely should get it once it’s available.

See you at Railsberry tomorrow!!!

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Breathing deeply as we set up the Railsberry Zen tent…

It’s the week of Railsberry (yaaay!) and we’re equally exhausted as we are excited.

So let’s all slow down for a second, take a really deeeeeeep exhale that can be followed by a slooooow reeeelaaxing inhale… and then get ready for more news!

Knowing that it might be a bit busy and noisy at the conference, we decided to set up a chillout tent in our venue’s tiny garden so that you get more… ZEN! Luckily – Zendesk -
who are THE experts at ZEN and helping people – we’re thrilled to support that noble cause. It’s going to be pretty plain (well, a tent!) with some bean bags, deckchairs… and silence ;)  No real hammocks and bonsais (Socha got a bit carried away!) but hopefully a place to chill if the conf gets too noisy. See you soon!

Zendesk delivers the leading cloud-based customer service software. Loved by customers for its simplicity and elegance, it is the easiest and fastest way to provide great customer service.

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Railsberry Hackathon & API Bakeoff this Wednesday!

Yay! More programming goodness! We’re happy to announce that thanks to joint efforts of our Sugar Daddy Tropo and our hacker friends at Future Simple, this Wednesday we will give you an opportunity to hack together something cool at the Railsberry Hackathon! You can expect some sweeeeet coding (details below), great discussions, like-minded people, GoPro cameras, food, drinks and fun!

Few ideas & problems that could be creatively tackled:

  • Programming conference calls and automated surveys
  • Processing voice recognition and speech-to-text APIs
  • Capturing and parsing incoming text messages (SMS)
  • Everything else that is fun and creative with any API of your choice ;)

Sounds fun? Read the essentials:

  • Wednesday, the 18th of April
  • Location: Future Simple Krakow HQ, 5 Marie Curie-Skłodowskiej St. No. 4
  • Starts at 4pm and will last till 10pm
  • An unofficial pre-Railsberry-post-API-Bakeoff-post-Railsgirls meetup to follow, location to be announced on Twitter
  • The registration will start HERE tomorrow (Monday) at 5pm Krakow time, there number of spots is limited (we can accomodate approx 40-45 people)
  • Questions? Email our amazing & one and only Antek at antek@futuresimple.com
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