Archive for the ‘conferences’ Category

Talking about “Advanced RESTful Rails”

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

So I know one of the ongoing concerns with conferences in general (and Railsconf in particular) is that people often don't know what to expect from the presentations - they go in expecting an in-depth study of a subject they know well, and end up seeing an quick and dirty ...

Railsconf 2008 update

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Looks like I'm going to Portland for Railsconf again, woohoo! My session on Advanced RESTful Rails was accepted, so at some point between the end of May and the first of June I'll be talking about domain modeling and the specific implementation of REST in Rails in front of a ...

Railsconf 2008

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Just submitted a session proposal for Railsconf '08 (in Portland again this year) - over a week before the deadline! That's something like a personal record for me. There's an inkling floating around the office here that a co-worker and I might also submit a joint tutorial proposal, though, so there's ...

FYI on Railsconf

Sunday, November 4th, 2007

The Railsconf 2008 CFP is open. The conference runs from May 29 to June 1, but proposals are due Dec 13 - so if you've got some hot topic burning a hole in your pocket, get it in!

Where in the world is Ben Scofield?

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Well, at the moment I'm back home in Durham, NC - having gotten back to DC from Berlin on Thursday and driving the rest of the way on Friday. In about a month, however, I'll be in Italy - I just confirmed that I'll be presenting at Rails to Italy in ...