Arrived home from Ruby East today. It was a very good time. I learned a ton of stuff. Also got to meet some great people. David Black, Obie Fernandez, Mike Mangino, Jeremy McAnally, Gregory Brown, Hal Fulton, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Michael Milner, Giles Bowkett and Desi McAdam to name a few. It was a fun time. Even played a couple of games of Werewolf. RubyConf should be a great time. Looking forward to it.
The talks at Ruby East were very good. I went to Hal Fulton’s keynote on the Future of Ruby. Then watched Jeremy McAnally, Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Desi McAdam, Giles Bowkett and finally Obie Fernandez. I missed out on great talks by Obie Fernandez (filled in for Amy Hoy), Mike Mangino and David Black.
After the talk most everyone headed to the Sheraton Great Valley for Ales and Rails. It was a great time to chat with everyone and talk about programming or whatever else came to mind. I stayed until about 10pm and then left for my hotel.
I learned a lot of things. Have to really buckle down and get into Ruby more so then Rails. Rails is great, but I think Ruby is what I need to learn in order to be a great Rails developer. It should be a fun process and I look forward to learning more about Ruby. There are a ton of other things out there that I would like to get a chance to work with like Mongrel, Nginx, Swiftiply, xen, vlad. I’ll post some more interesting things as I code/read or find little nuggets of information.
