There were some great sessions today. I’m looking forward to tomorrow.
In the evening, Chas and I checked out the Arcade they had downstairs. Very fun. They even had Galaga and Ms. Pacman!
More pictures are forthcoming. So, check out the Flickr feed. Eventually, I’ll get a plugin to work with Wordpress [...]
Presented by: David Stanek
This was a short presentation, but it gave me a lot of ideas for projects. Python is a language that I’ve wanted to learn more about for a long time, but haven’t had the time to dive into. I’ve only developed a tiny bit with it and even then, mostly [...]
Presented by: Greg Huber
This was another pretty lame talk. It was MS specific, of course. The AJAX library is neat and the demos helped me better understand how it works and hence how to develop it. That may come in handy with the Rich Media Converter Project upgrade and for that, it was worth paying [...]
Presented by: Bruce Eckel
Wow. That was a good keynote. The main idea was that the world is changing, paradigms are shifting, and we are finally realizing that software development is not the static, defined process talked about in many books or imagined by many managers. Life is dymanic, the world is dymanic and experimentation is [...]
Presented by: Joe O’Brien
I love Ruby on Rails! Okay, maybe I’m not a complete convert, yet. I have yet to write my first line of Ruby, but it is at the top of my agenda when I get back from the conference. Ruby is such a beautiful language. And, the aspects of Rails that were [...]
Presented by: Keith Elder
This presentation was Microsoft-focused, so it wasn’t very applicable outside of a tightly controlled MS environment, but the technology was interesting.
A Smart Client, as described in the session, is what I might call a Rich Internet Application. There is client code that runs on your desktop, using WinForms, but the application is [...]
Presented by: Neal Ford
The first keynote of the day was very interesting and as I have mentioned previously, I think it’s subject matter is an important theme of the conference.
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) allow developers to use classes and objects as the building blocks of a higher-level abstraction. The point was made that DSLs are [...]
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Bruce Setting Up, originally uploaded by Neo0ptik.
Bruce is setting up.
So far, the conference has been very interesting. I’ll write up more substantial posts laster, but the first keynote about Domain Specific Languages really has my mind racing. Since Ruby is a language that is well suited to creating DSLs, I’m even more interested in getting a test development server running when I [...]
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First Ruby Session, originally uploaded by Neo0ptik.
The first Ruby on Rails session. These are what I am most interested in. This is an intro to Ruby.