Archive for the ‘conferences’ Category

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 ...

Railsconf Europe - done

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Just getting back into my room after a full last day of Railsconf Europe. (Why are my normal blog posts starting to look like tweets, though? That's odd and disturbing) All in all, I enjoyed the conference. I thought the sessions were a bit higher quality than those in Portland, though ...

Writing Rails - BoF

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Monday was the first (well, sort of) day at Railsconf Europe, and as such saw the first set of Birds of a Feather sessions. I attended one originally suggested by Jeremy McAnally (though he was unable to make it, unfortunately) on writing for Rails - documentation, blogging, books, and training, ...

In Berlin

Monday, September 17th, 2007

As the title says, I'm in Berlin at Railsconf Europe. More to follow.

Things I learned at the Hoedown

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

define_method really bites extending Ruby with C is much easier than I would have expected it to be I'm apparently cursed to never be able to play a game of werewolf the drive to do good shown to such great effect at Railsconf is still alive and growing in the Ruby community the pursuit ...