"Now there is dynamic real pieces of data. They don't have to use Lorem Ipsum to fill it up with crap."
DHH on designers using Rails view templates from the Scott Hanselman podcast
Nice podcast. Some great material in there.
RailsConf 2007 done and dusted - in pics and video
Posted by martin
RailsConf 2007 was great. Lots of fun meeting loads of great peeps. Here is just a selection of the best bits from the conference:
Video
RailsConf 2007 Highlights
I'ma Noob" song at railsconf 2007
Note: Both the above vids have been sourced from YouTube
And the rest of the vids - the majority of which seem to be the marching band from camera phones.
Flickr Photo Sets
I didn't take that many photos in the end but many others did. Here are a few choice picks: (you might spot me in one or two even)
Photos by James Duncan Davidson
Slide shows created with Paul's flickrSLiDR.
Conference talk slides
Get the RailsConf 2007 slides from the O'Reilly site
Rails Podcast: RailsConf 2007 interviews
Download: MP3 21.9 MB | MP4 21.9 MB
Parties
A special thanks to Pivotal Labs, ThoughtWorks, and Rails Machine for hosting some great evening parties. They made sure that the beer kept on flowing!
UK Attendance
A fair selection of folks jetted across to attend. Namely:
James Adams, Murray Steele, Dan Webb, Graeme Mathieson, Matt Huddie, and James Andrews
Both Dan and James gave top notch presentations at the event.
Finally
Thanks to Chad and the rest of the team for making it all possible.
A big shout out to every one that I met out in Portland. It was a pleasure. Roll on RailsConf Europe!
Keeping up with the Rails feeds
Posted by martin
I read with great interest Geoffrey Grosenbach's recent article on how he gets his Rails news
I too ditched my feed reader some time ago in favor of aggregation/news sites such as Ruby Inside and PlanetRubyOnRails. They help get me my daily dosage of what is going on in the Rails World.
I now have a third additional source. It has become such a handy resource I have put it live on the Working With Rails site. The WWR BlogSphere.
It basically gives you an aggregate view of Rails blog posts with a bias using metrics collected at WWR. So you can view the latest posts by the most authoritative or popular people. Or if you want to keep up with what is happening in the Rails source code you can follow by contributors. Even nicer if you have made recommendations you view only posts by these people - handy to make sure you are up to date with their latest developments.
I have plenty of ideas for enhancing the functionality and interface. I also welcome any suggestions or ideas. If you get a moment please do drop me some feedback - it's all much appreciated.
Signing out at the airport (waiting for my flight to RailsConf)
Martin.
Presentation from Mondays LRUG talk now online
Posted by martin
I had fun presenting on Monday at the LRUG meeting giving a talk on Distributed Ruby (on Rails)
I have put my presentation online - view it at Slide Share
If you are thinking about doing distributed ruby/rails it's worth checking out. Plenty of links to resources and more.
Talking about distributed Ruby at LRUG tonight
Posted by martin
Just a quick note to say that I'll be giving a talk at tonight's London Ruby Users group on distributed Ruby (and Rails.
