Regular Expressions are your friend! A regular expression will find that needle in the haystack, where Waldo might be, or the location of Jimmy Hoffa's body. Seriously, regular expressions are powerful, but seldom used by developers. This talk will help change that. By the end of this talk you'll want to use regular expressions for more than just checking an E-Mail or IP address format.

Aaron Kalin is a developer at Hashrocket, a Jacksonville Beach based Ruby on Rails consultancy that also has an office in Chicago. He's been developing applications on and off the web since he was 11 and very passionate about solving problems with code. His hair is also Ruby Red.

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