Padrino was created to make it fun and easy to code more advanced web applications while still adhering to the spirit that makes Sinatra great!

Sequel is a simple, flexible, and powerful SQL database access toolkit for Ruby that also provides a comprehensive ORM layer for mapping records to Ruby objects and handling associated records. Paul will show how both these libraries are built up from a solid core and how they can be used together as a powerful framework for building web applications.

Paul blogs about life at http://paulbarry.com/..., tweets about the rest at @pjb3 and makes a living at LivingSocial.com.

Nick Gauthier will be presenting the second in his series of lightning talks collectively titled "KnowSQL," a wakeup call for all those drinking the NoSQL kool-aid.

Bryan Liles will also be giving a lightning talk on "10 things you most likely aren't doing with Redis."