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- The keynote
Some great notes on last night's Ruby keynote with Matz.
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:56:21 GMT - Rails day 3
For someone so modest, DHH is a genius. To have taken rails from such a humble beginning to the poster child it has become, is simply amazing. That it achieved all of this in just one year is a miracle.
Hopefully the audio and presentation slides will be available soon, as soon as I track them down I will be posting the links here.
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:16:25 GMT - Final thoughts on Day 2
This afternoons presentations were the best so far, especially Ryan Davis's presentation on Zenhacks.
As soon as I can find his presentation slides I will be posting a link here, definitely not to miss.
Matz's keynote was also fascinating, I'm really looking forward to keyword arguments in Ruby.
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:23:56 GMT - PDF:Writer
The PDF:Writer presentation is starting up, this should be great.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:16:32 GMT - Ruby in space
Brent Roman just finished his talk on 'Embedding Ruby into a robotic Marine Labratory'. A lot of the science stuff was a little over my head, but I found it very cool that NASA is looking at his work to use in off world applications, more specifically looking for life in off world oceans.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:11:06 GMT - More no clergy
No clergy looks fascinating, would love to participate in an audience session using no clergy. I should talk to Jamie about getting together some musicians when I get back.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:08:01 GMT - Rubyconf 2005 - Day 2
Day 2 is starting up, first panel is Kevin Baird on refactoring No Clergy.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:11:11 GMT - Amazing sight
Sitting in the lobby of the hotel watching what looks like the entire Rails core group hacking away at what I hope is Rails 1.0
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 04:57:24 GMT - Rubyconf notes
Some super detailed notes on the Rubyconf presentations from Kevin Clark.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:53:07 GMT - Rubyconf for stragglers
Just found the link to the audio files of Rubyconf 2005, haven't listned to them yet.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:51:32 GMT - Amazing battery from Battery Geek
The battery in the my Acer Travelmate 800 has been slowly losing it's charge over the past year or so, being down from ~5 hours to < 1 hour.
Not knowing the wether we would have access to power outlets at Rubyconf I decided to replace it. To my great consternation I discovered that it is quite difficult to get your hands on a replacement battery within a reasonable amount of time.
As a result some research in to alternative battery solutions for laptops. Most were very expensive ($500 and up), bulky and offered no performance increase over the internal battery.
The I discovered batterygeek, they offered a free battery audit and their prices were very reasonable (~$200 about the same as my internal battery). Even more impressive they were touting 5-10 hours of charge time!
After two days of almost continuous use I must say that my new battery is all I hoped for and more.
The charge time is absolutely amazing (everyone glared at me jealously at the conference). And the unit is relatively compact and lightweight.
So if your current laptop battery is losing it's charge, I would strongly encourage you to take a look at some of the solutions offered by Battery Geek.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:46:52 GMT - End of day one... sort of
First day of presentations are done, all in all I must say their is a lot of very cool things going on in the Ruby world.
Learned that a couple more people are here, among them: Jamis Buck and a couple of the guys from the Robot co-op. The former are working on a very interesting project called Metaruby where the goal is to write Ruby in Ruby!
I have some reservations about the project, mostly will it be fast enough to actually use? Would be interested to see any benchmarks they've done so far.
Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:12:39 GMT - JRuby
Next presentation is starting up, it's on JRuby.
Don't know much about it, looks like they want to be the bridge between Java and Ruby for companies that want some of the advantages offered by Ruby without giving up on Java.
Interesting, but doesn't really apply to me. Also, looks like a ton of work.
Best part of this presentation for me personally, I learned a new word: Rubification.
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 20:51:31 GMT - Uh oh
Radio is having problems updating my RSS feed, hopefully the pings are still getting through... stay tuned.
UPDATE: Manual publish worked, thanks Marc.
UPDATE: Everything seems to be working ok again, think it was my fault the date on my box got set to August which seems to have caused some problems with Radio.
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:02:21 GMT - open-uri, huffman coding and more
The open-uri presentation is turning out to be much more interesting that I had expected. First the library looks incredibly slick, and to boot the author has some very intesting general ideas on API design.
He's talking about Huffman coding now, going to have to read up on that. Looks very cool.
Lots of emphasis on short code.
I also really like the sound of 'reuse user knowledge'.
Here is one I really like, a change to the API that results in incompatibility is bad, but not fixing a bad API is worse ;)
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:02:21 GMT
