My RailsConf 2008 picks

Colin A. Bartlett — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:16:00 -0400

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

Colin A. Bartlett — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:02:00 -0500

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…

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My RailsConf 2008 picks

Registered for RailsConf 08