Ramble

CodeMash 2007 was great!  I had a blast.  The keynotes were excellent, the sessions I went to were excellent, the resort was excellent.  The only thing that sucked was the food (come one guys, at least give us something hot!).

The big themes of the conference were definitely DSLs and SOA.  I particularly liked the Joe O’Brien sessions on Ruby and Rails in the Enterprise.  Scott Guthrie was a very dynamic speaker.  Everything with him was “super.”

I now have some ideas for things to implement back at work.  After the conference, both Chas and I bought Programming Ruby and From Java to Ruby.   The later book was recommended as a good source of business case arguments for some Ruby adoption in the Enterprise.

I can’t wait for CodeMash 2008.  I’ll probably have more to say about these topics and even perhaps the conference itself later this weekend.  For now, I’m tired and we have a long drive ahead of us in the morning.