RailsConf Europe 2008: impressions and highlights

I’m back in Madrid again after the RailsConf and I think it’s time to say something about it.
First off, the infrastructure provided by the conference was really great. The rooms, WiFi connection, food…  Really well organized.
Now to the sessions, highlights:
Tutorials (Tuesday)
- Meta-programming Ruby for fun and profit (Neal Ford, Patrick Farley)
The old and [...]

RailsConf Europe 2008: heading to berlin!

The title says it already.
On monday I’ll be going to Berlin to attend this year´s RailsConf.
This will be my first one and of course my expectations are pretty high!
As usual, after the conference I’ll try and give a summary of what happened there, providing as much content as I can.
Anyone else’s going???
C u [...]

The biggest Rails event in latin america

Behold latin american railers!
This year we will have the Rails Summit Latin America on October, 15th and 16th, in São Paulo, Brazil.
It’s by far the biggest Rails event we’ve ever had, including many of the speakers that were present at RailsConf.
Fábio Akita is also one of the speakers and provides more details on his blog.
If [...]

Euruko 2008: Materials available

As some of you know I went to the European Ruby Conf in Prague, this year.
The event was awesome and it’s good to know they finally made available the majority of the slides, here.
They also published Matz’s keynote, and more videos from the conference are being edited right now, so stay tuned to their home [...]

QCon 2008: slides available

Most of last QCon’s presentations are available for download here.
Highlights to Ola Bini’s on JRuby(pdf) and Randy Shoup’s on eBay’s architectural principles(pdf).
And while we’re talking about JRuby, it’s impressive how it’s becoming a recurrent and big subject. Fast. It had its own small space at big event like QCon and in the last Euruko [...]

Euruko 2008: European RubyConf, Prague

On friday I’ll be heading Prague for the European RubyConf.
Anyone is going?
Almost 300 attendees already registered for the event. And a few very interesting people will be speaking there like Matz and DHH (this one, through skype).
Besides that, the organization staff is scheduling 2 parties, friday and saturday, for the attendees.
Networking comes to mind, [...]

QCon 2008: Domain Specific Languages

Today was the first day of the conference and it started with a tutorial about DSL’s with Martin Fowler, Neal Ford and Rebecca Parsons. We also had as attendants Ola Bini, core developer of JRuby, and others. My expectations were pretty high and the presentation didn’t let me down. I’ll try to put here toghether [...]

QCon 2008: London

Next week I’ll be at QCon, in London, so if any of you are going to the conference and would like meet up for a couple of beers and a tech talk, please don’t hesitate to drop a message.
For those of you who have never heard of QCon before, it is a really nice event [...]