Practicalmadness

DHH Does Yr Keynotes After an ukelele-and-TextMate-themed intro by Rich and Chad from RubyCentral, the king of arrogant bastards himself — Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson — has taken the stage. The sweet candy center of his talk today will...

See, the Rails community is so on the cutting edge, we’re not even waiting until the first RailsConf is over before announcing the second one. RailsConf 2007 will be held May 17-20 next year at the Oregon Convention Center in...

Here, as promised, is the PDF version of my RailsConf presentation, “Meanwhile, In The Rest of the World…” (1.9 MB Zip file). I’ve made a couple minor changes from the one I showed (which will be made available to...

This isn’t everything that happened on Day 1 — specifically I’m leaving out the part about finding Battlestar Galactica toys at Target — but here’s a rough summary of my experience so far: Thursday Night I went to the ThoughtWorks...

Well, I survived that. My talk on positioning “the new hotness” (i.e., Web 2.0) to laypersons just ended, and I can say this: the warm responses make the week of terror entirely worth it. I went ten minutes over my...