RubyEnRails 2007

Manfred Stienstra, 08 Jun 2007, 17:56 in ruby on rails and events, last updated 09 Jun 2007, 16:21 (edit).

Yesterday the three of us attended RubyEnRails 2007, a Dutch one day conference about Ruby and Rails held in our hometown Amsterdam. We had a great time meeting up with all kinds of Rails developers, almost Rails developers and entrepreneurs.

Nic Williams kicked off the conference being his Australian self and sporting his caboose shirt. In his talk he layed out his views on the future of Rails.

Nic points to his code

Norbert and I did a live hacking session with Ruby, we showed a few ways to clean up your Ruby code and a few ways to make it almost unreadable. I think we lost some people along the way, but I hope everyone enjoyed the talk.

The enterprise controller
Closeup of Norbert
Closeup of Manfred
We lost Geoffrey

One of the things that struck me at the conference was that the talks were really diverse, with lots of real world examples and live coding. As Geoffrey Grosenbach mentioned in his closing talk, this really gave the conference it’s own identity. I hope to see more of this in the future. Next stop, RailsConf Europe.

Geoffrey interviews Robert of Wakoopa

Geoffrey Grosenbach interviews Robert Gaal

The crowd

On the right Justin Halsall

More crowd
Eloy and Nic hacking

Eloy Duran and Nic geeking out after a talk

Comments

  1. Giel about 4 hours later: (delete)

    The correct adjective is enterprisey. Sleeping is a good example of acting enterprisey, tho.

  2. Wouter about 7 hours later: (delete | show email)

    It was a really fun day, I enjoyed most of the talks, especially the ones by Nic and Geoffrey. Kudos to the Ruby En Rails organisation!

  3. Dr Nic about 15 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Great photos. Great day. Great city. Great people. Awesome.

    @Manfred + Norbert - your presentation was very cool. Hell, anyone who does a demo of Code Golfing rocks :)

  4. Dr Nic about 16 hours later: (delete | show email)

    PS. I stole your "We're hiring" widget at the top. Its sexy.

  5. alloy about 20 hours later: (delete | show email)

    Thanks for the great puzzling talk, really enjoyed it!

    Ooh and for the pictures too, I really stink at taking pictures myself :)

  6. Thijs van der Vossen 1 day later: (delete)

    You can find some more pictures in this Flickr set:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/37925501@N00/sets/72157600330527897/

  7. Markjuh 5 days later: (delete | show email)

    Your presentation was awesome. Especially since it showed how to do some academic stuff in Ruby. :)

    The link Thijs added with more pictures doesn't seem to work though.

  8. Manfred Stienstra 5 days later: (delete)

    No, auto_url failed to create something sensible. Either copy-paste the whole URL or use this one: http://tinyurl.com/2p7o8g

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