News Blaze highlights RailsConf ‘08:
“Passionate and fascinating” is the way one developer summed up RailsConf 2008 in Portland May 26-June 1, the largest physical gathering of Ruby and Rails developers in the world.
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RailsConf Conference News
Explore the latest Rails developments at this four-day event co-presented by O'Reilly and Ruby Central.
Drew Blas posts this excellent, in-depth summation of Friday night at RailsConf. Blas reports on Charles Nutter’s talk “The Sun you don’t know,” the winners of the Ruby Hero awards, and contributes a thoughtful, detailed exploration of David Heinemeier Hansson’s thought-provoking keynote.
Paul Krill reports on Microsoft’s demonstration of their new Silveright browser plug-in technology at RailsConf this year.
Scott M. Fulton, III examines the ramifications and implications of Twitters recent technical problems.
Two weeks ago, following the rapid spread of rumors that the Twitter service — recently besieged with technical troubles — may be abandoning the Ruby on Rails development platform in building a replacement platform for itself, the company’s co-founder Biz Stone flat out refuted those rumors in a comment to BetaNews.
Savio Rodrigues reports on Engin Yard’s Rubinius project which previewed at RailsConf.
What’s interesting is that since Ruby doesn’t really have a specification, it’s difficult to say that platform xyz is not a compatible implementation of a Ruby runtime. In response, Rubinius decided to create a test suite that could help standardize Ruby as a language across the growing number of VM implementations for Ruby.
Henry Work reports on the FiveRuns launch– TuneUp, a “social debugging tool for Rails applications.”
Once again Chad Fowler and his Ruby Central cohorts have put together an excellent schedule of sessions and tutorials. This probably explains why, like last year, seats are going fast for RailsConf 2008, so sign up while you can.
It’s official Rails friends and fans, the Call for Participation for RailsConf 2008 is open!
James Niccolai posts a good article on the future of Rails, directly from DHH himself:
Developer of the important Web application framework says he won’t add much to the next version.
This blog entry compares the agenda for the RailsConf stateside and RailsConf Europe:
It looks like RailsConf Europe in Berlin, Germany (17-19 September 2007) is concentrating on Flex
This post is worth reading, if for no other reason that the crazy artwork!
The most important thing at a conference is the time between the sessions
The conference was a big success, if you’d like to read the final news release click here:
Justin thinks that perhaps no one is listening (see the title of the blog). We are, and want to share
with you what he had to say about this year’s event:
Obie had this to say about the keynote auditorium for the opening Keynote here at RailsConf:
Beholding 1600 people in the auditorium was truly awe-inspiring.
Mr. Richardson gushes about the dignitaries at RailsConf:
This conference is huge… there are 1,600 Rails coders here
Conference attendee and blogger F. Morgan Whitney posted on the unusual entertainment at RailsConf:
“So after the morning sessions were finished at RailsConf, there was suddenly a burst of noise from the lobby outside”
Java The Hutt is watching Railsconf:
“Many geeks have descended upon an unsuspecting Portland for a few days of geekery…”
John Dorsey covered the show, and reported on a few items:
Attendee and show photographer James Duncan Davidson noticed the show’s network speed was comprimised and had this to say:
“Before you go off and blame the network however, I’d like to share a little insider tip…”
The Rails community knew DHH was on top of his game, but ScribeMedia
had this to say:
“There’s smart, then there’s really smart, and then there’s really damn smartl.”
Tim Bray of Sun is enjoying RailsConf, read what he has to say here:
Here at RailsConf, we’re delighted to have non-for-profit Rails For All exhibiting. News from their booth follows:
Rails For All, Inc. Forges Links Into the Rails Community
Portland OR, May 20, 2007 — Rails For All, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of Ruby on Rails, and demonstrating how it can be used to help businesses of all sizes create amazing Web sites and applications is exhibiting at RailsConf. Rails For All is bridging the gap between the development community and the companies it serves, by bringing savvy businesses intent on maximizing their opportunities on the Web together with experienced, passionate, and innovative Rails developers.
“The Rails For All booth, donated by O’Reilly, is getting a lot of traffic. We are getting a lot of great feedback from the community on ways we can help to promote developers to businesses,” said Robert Dempsey, Founder of Rails For All, Inc.
At the Rails For All site, visitors can now view content in Spanish, with French, Polish and Chinese coming soon. Developers can promote their favorite designers, invite other developers to join the community and even post profiles hoping for business opportunities.
Rails for All, a not-for-profit organization is also actively recruiting sponsors. For more information, visit:
Exhibitor ActiveState has even more news from the show floor:
More news from the show, this time from ActiveState:
Another bit of news, this time from show exhibitor ThoughtWorks:
ThoughtWorks Studios releases new Ruby-in-enterprise effort, RubyWorks
There is lots of news coming from Rails Conference here in Portland. Here is what is going
on with one of our sponsors:
From RailsConf sponsor (thank you!) CodeGear comes this announcment on the eve of RailsConf:
New IDE supports Rails open source Web development framework for data-driven Web 2.0 applications
As Web developers flock to the Ruby on Rails framework for its speed and ease of use, CodeGear is introducing new technology to make Ruby users even more productive in building Web 2.0 applications.
CodeGear, a leader in developer tools, today announced an integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby on Rails that is now available for beta testing and is currently planned to ship in the second half of 2007.
Unveiled at the RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon, the new technology offers innovative productivity features designed to allow both new and experienced Rails developers to build Ruby on Rails applications efficiently and quickly.
Which is great news–unless you were planning to attend and didn’t get a chance to sign up before we closed registration. We’re trying to find more space at the Oregon Convention Center, and in case we find it, we’ve started a RailsConf waiting list. If you still want to attend, please add your name to the list and we’ll let you know if we are able to re-open registration.
Grab a seat while you can–we just opened registration thirty-five minutes ago, and we’ve already broken all previous conference sign-up records!
By all accounts it was a smashing event last year, and we’re pretty excited to be working with the Ruby Central guys on RailsConf 2007, which is happening May 17-20 in Portland, OR. We’ve opened the call for participation, so submit those proposals, and tell a friend! The deadline is November 27. Even if you don’t want to speak, we encourage you to share your ideas–head over to the RailsConf 2007 wiki to post your comments and suggestions.
It’s official–we’re co-hosting next year’s RailsConf with our friends over at Ruby Central. RailsConf 2007 happens at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, May 17-20. Other dates of note: Call for Participation opens in October 2006 and general registration opens in early 2007. Sign up for the RailsConf newsletter if you’d like to receive updates.
- May 29 - June 1, 2008
- Portland, OR
