Rails Conf was crazy! May 20th, 2007
My mind feels like a flat tire with a buncha fix-a-flat pumped in at 60 miles an hour right now. I can't help but sit here try to blurt out some useful info. Took lots of notes, which I need to organize.
Here are some cool links
Sweet site, IRC bot grabbed a buncha good quotes and links from #railsconf during the conference. Reading it is a great re-cap if you attended the whole thing. The quotes are priceless (and very spot on).
Ni.hili.st
O'Reilly's official wiki
presentation slides
Also worth noting.. There was a lot of sponsored talks/discussion around GlassFish3 which is Sun's much hyped name for Java EnterpriseEdition (latest version). They made it sound really cool but later when I did some research it seemed to me that it's not as cool as you might think. Running jruby w/rails instead of ruby (native), while a novel idea, is only useful if you can't install anything except for java (literally, if you can't install ruby even tho it would compile, install and run fine because of company policy and pre-existing support contracts).
Do not be fooled by the jRuby hype!! Go ruby 2.oh and Yarv!!
Netbeans sounds like it might be a cool editor.. However, the Sun guys at the booth made it sound like it wasn't too super close to release.. Early next year would be my guess. If anyone wants to check it out, I got this link from a Sun dude for the daily builds etc. You cannot download Netbeans 6 from the official Netbeans site.
here's the secret netbeans dashboard url
Thank you Rails Conf. It's been real.