Notes from RailsConf 2007

Posted 22 May 2007

Update: some more presentations have been added to the conference site, most notably DHH’s keynote, titled “A peak at Rails 2.0”. (I’m not sure if he intended this as a pun or if he really means “peek”, not “peak”.)

I’ve just returned from a weekend in Portland at RailsConf. It was an impressive crowd—1600 people, triple the size of last year’s conference.

I found the conference uneven, as most are. There were occasional great talks, a few awful talks, and lots inbetween. The technical level also varied wildly, from introductory to the truly obscure. (I wasn’t able to make the first day of the conference, because of a big school event my daughter was in—kids come first. Some of the highlights were clearly on that first day: DHH’s keynote, and Ze Frank’s talk.)