Rails conf day 3
Another great day at rails conf 2007! Morgan did his talk to day and it went well. The Extra Action Marching Band stopped by for a quick demo. I just got back from the bar they were playing in and it was amazingly fun. I talked to lots of people today google recruiters, tyler from amazon, some people working with nasa, and other people. I am excited to host my own presentation. I have to have someone with a Mac convert it in to a PDF first. I will post that link when I have it. I have found 2 blogs about my talk and one on morgans (all here). In the blog about morgan's talk they called us .net developers. That cuts me deep. I have never been a .net programmer. I have done (in order of first appearance) C,Ruby,Python,and a little Java. After checking out the blogs make sure to look on flickr. I am looking forward to tomorrow's talks.
Starting the end
Looks like 100% chance of rain.. I wanted to talk about the speeches I saw yesterday. I went to two talks on virtualization which I liked because I run VMs. I am glad to see that having a server in a VM only has a performance reduction of 5-8% I will be looking in to creating ruby scripts to create and manage Xen images. Another talk was about creating scriptaculous effects. I did want to see more of the graphic engine and that kinda logic but it was very informative. One example that was shown was blinding left to right or right to left. I want to add this effect to the calender on my page and start to create more effects. I am surprised some one does not have the star wars text scrolling effect. It would be fun to do but I think i will start out a little easier. Time to get some food and walk in the rain.
End of the end
It was a lot of fun. I have not posted about the talks because you can get the slides yourself. I will be posting what I create because of the talks I have seen. I am just glad that I could speak in front of so many of my peers.
