Enjoy! From Chad and Marcel's charity workshop on Rails testing to Ezra on Merb to me on C/Ruby/Rails integration, it's all free under the Creative Commons. :)
Hoedown Videos
Alan Hoffler, communication guru likes to say that watching yourself on video is a humbling thing... and he's right. Watching me talk and throw candy for the first five minutes of the talk, I feel obligated to tell everyone that the entire time, my new MacBook Pro was rebooting... and hanging. Watch the blank overhead screen in the background. I suspect it was running a disk check during the boot. But that was the last good boot I got out of the machine! After the talk, it locked up tight and never came back. It's been replaced with a rock solid MacBook Pro, but I feel very fortunate to have been able to finish that talk.
I could've pulled my slides out of Subversion, and the code was there as well, but it would've been interesting to see if I could've done things like install the InlineC gems live in front of the audience. :)
That sort of thing doesn't happen often, but it does make things a bit more interesting. Enjoy the talk, but also enjoy watching me 'sing and dance' while trying to decide if my Mac would actually boot or not.
