By Ryan McGeary — To celebrate the NovaRUG's 50th meeting, they opened to the floor to lightning talks. As an added incentive, the highest voted lightning talk was to be given a speaking slot at RubyNation 2011. I guess bringing my friends and family paid off that day. In the spirit of that event, I will attempt to give back-to-back lightning talks on a wide range of topics, including: 1) CoffeeScript: Exposing the Good Parts of JavaScript with Better Syntax; 2) Why Your Commit Messages Suck; 3) Managing Deployment Environments with Git; 4) Bundler for Applications; RVM Gemsets for ???; 5) How We Use MongoDB at BusyConf; and 6) HTML5 Application Caching.Like a one-man-band, this talk will entertain with fast paced and varied content, keeping the audience engaged and entertained. Also like a one-man-band, it will provide the opportunity to witness disaster. Less