My RailsConf 2008 picks

Posted by Colin A. Bartlett Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:00 GMT

Here are my tentative selections for RailsConf 2008. Looking forward to everything!

Thursday:
  • Refactoring Your Rails Application
  • Developer Testing Tricks
Friday:
  • Entrepreneurs On Rails
  • Hosting and the Woes
  • Faster, Better, ORM with DataMapper
  • “Design Patterns” in Ruby
  • UI Design on Rails
Saturday:
  • Optimizing Rails
  • Asynchronous Processing with Ruby on Rails
  • Fast, Sexy, and Svelte: Our Kind of Rails Testing
  • Integration Testing with RSpec’s Story Runner
  • Metaprogramming and Ruby Internals for Rails Programmers
Sunday:
  • De-Railing: Smashing the Rails Stack
  • Oh the Fail I’ve Known
  • Building an app in 48 hours – A Rails Rumble Case Study

Registered for RailsConf 08

Posted by Colin A. Bartlett Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:02:00 GMT

Justin and I registered for RailsConf just the other day. I’m excited of course. Last year was a great time. I learned a ton… I hadn’t even been using Ruby/Rails that much before then. So I think this year I’ll get even more out of it. And having another team member along with me means we can double the sessions—last year I was often disappointed that I had to choose between two equally decent sounding talks.

I again signed up for the first day of tutorials this year. Last year I ended up sleeping on a bench in O’Hare and therefore missed my first tutorial. I’m hoping on a better flying experience this year.

I picked: Justin picked:

4 months, today, until the conf…