Welcome to the final part of my RailsConf Europe 2008 coverage. On the third day I attended Ruby and Rails Symposium: Versions, Implementations, and the Future , Genomes on Rails and Small Things, Loosely Joined and Written Fast . The keynote was a little bit disappointing, but the other talks were both inspiring, albeit in different ways.
Ruby and Rails Symposium: Versions, Implementations, and the Futures
David Black’s keynote, or a Symposimi, as he called it , started with a show of hands. David asked what version of Ruby are people using on their production site. Almost all of the audience raised hands for 1.8.6, I noticed only one guy using 1.8.7 and maybe two using 1.9.0. This is not that surprising as 1.9.0 is a “development release” , not intended to be run in production environments. It’s more interesting why 1.8.7 didn’t achieve more popularity. It’s supposed to be stable, backwards compatible, has many bugfixes and some ne...
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Post Date: 2008-09-07 01:11:38
It seems that I got too carried away writing about DHH keynote and forgot to mention other session I’ve been to that day. The first one was Hacking the Mid-End: Unobtrusive Scripting and Advanced UI Techniques in Rails , then Rails Software Metrics and Modeling Denormalization - The Speed You Need, the Order You Crave . I’m going to cover each one below.
Hacking the Mid-End
In Hacking the Mid-End: Unobtrusive Scripting and Advanced UI Techniques in Rails Michael Bleigh ...
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Post Date: 2008-09-04 01:16:23
The second day of RailsConf Europe 2008 started with David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote on legacy software and was by far the most interesting and enlightening of the talks that I attended yesterday. DHH was mainly talking about legacy but I think the main message he was trying to get through was that a programmer should never stop learning, and I totally agree with that. I really regret I haven’t written about this before because now it will look like another DHH fanboy despera...
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Post Date: 2008-09-03 07:25:32
Panel discussion with DHH and Rails Core Team members
The first day was a registration and tutorial day. The registration went smoothly, there was no gigantic queue that people waited in for half an hour like last year. My feeling is that there is less people this year but probably the organization is also better. Read on for a relation on the tutorials I attended and evening’s panel discussion.
The first tutorial, Better Living Through Resourceful Plugins was very interes...
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