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Jared Richardson’s talk titled “Build Teams, not Products,” in particular, was one of the best presentations I’ve ever witnessed. It was just one of those talks where all the points seem tautologic...
-Yev Bronshteyn
With much code, all eyes are shallow
-Jared Richardson
Do it right from day one or you never will
-Andy Hunt

Ruby Hoedown Videos are All Posted (Aug 28)
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.

Category: Ruby


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