RailsConf 2006, Day 3

The last day of RailsConf 2006 and a few more sessions to remark on. I started with the session that Mike Pence gave on OpenLaszlo. I’ve kept up with this project for a little while now and am glad to see that the DHTML support has been released now. Unfortunately, accessibility is not a strength of this implementation and it seems that the Laszlo community is far too focused on client-side eye candy and not enough on the development of good applications. I might be misunderstanding the intent but, in general, it felt like there was far too much Laszlo prosletization and not enough demonstration about the OpenLaszlo on Rails project that I think most of us came to hear about. My second session on OpenID was a little more technical in nature than the first, largely because Matt Pelletier has actually worked with OpenID service implementation at EastMedia. Unfortunately, it seems even more obvious now that this technology is still very much un...