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If you’ve never been to a talk by Bob Martin before, one picture really does equal a thousand words. (Make sure to check out the link in the third comment.) He is a very passionate, very intense speaker. He challenges the listener to rise to a higher level of code-fu. This was the first time [...]

I originally found Jay Fields’ blog from a reference in the back of Rails For Java Developers from Stu Halloway. Reading his blog was really interesting and dealt with a lot of unfamiliar topics. As a result, I was eager to hear him speak. Jay had one slide for his entire presentation, but a lot [...]

Ben Scofield, who I had not met, works with Patrick Reagan, who I have. Combined with the fact that almost every Rails site that I have written has some amount of static content, I was interested to see the talk. In the style of Bob Martin’s talk early in the day, Ben’s presentation dealt with [...]

Adam Keys made a big splash last year with his presentation AC/DC, Stravinsky, and Rails. Reading open-source code is one of my primary methods of learning, particularly languages in which I’m not that experienced. So I was pretty pumped for this session. Despite Adam’s entertaining style, I thought this presentation was pretty slow apart from [...]

Wow, this party was awesome! I went for the first two days. The second day gets its own entry, because me and Jon Maddox were some of the last people there. We shut the party down! The most exciting thing that happened for me during the entire conference was on the balcony at the Doubletree [...]

I got into Portland with relatively little trouble, although I had actually booked a stay at my Wednesday hotel for the wrong night because I am a brainiac. I got on the road in relatively short order the following morning, even though I ended up getting very little sleep. Also, since I was changing hotels, [...]

InfoQ has a JRuby talk that really doesn’t share that much with the talk that they gave during the tutorial session at RailsConf, and that does the presenters a disservice. Even though they were not the most engaging speakers on the bill for the weekend, they had great slides and a great plan to present [...]

Put on by Bruce Williams and an uncredited Marcel Molina, Jr., this session proved to be one of the highlights of the conference for me personally. My experience up to this point has led to a lot of time spent with HTML and CSS education—thus I spend a lot of time working with those two [...]

I haven’t started reading his books because of his death, but I read Cat’s Cradle during my sister’s graduation. I fell in love all over again with his content and his style. I hadn’t read any of his work since I was in middle school (Harrison Bergeron, with the predictable effects). I’ve read the first [...]

It seems like the underpinnings of everything are at stake. —Ze Frank Even though it’s over, he put on the best Show since Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh. I can’t link to it because I am posting from my fricking phone. It’s called Google , people.