For the final session of the day I decided to take a lighter one (i.e. not programming intensive as my mind had been pickled in Ruby code throughout the day), so I attended Andy Lester’s Preventing Crisis: Project Estimation and Tracking That Works. My notes are below (along with links to the slides/velocity chart).
Aug 04
Jim Weirich gave an interesting presentation on dependency injection entitled, Dependency Injection: Vitally Important or Completely Irrelevant? Since the slides are available online and my wrist is beginning to bother me, I’ll sum it up quickly. Is dependency injection important in a dynamically typed language? No.
Aug 04
Why the lucky stiff dazzled the audience with his performance art piece entitled, A Starry Afternoon, a Sinking Symphony, and the Polo Champ Who Gave It All Up for No Reason Whatsoever. My mind was blown and my gut busted. O’Reilly should hold a Monday Night Extravaganza at next year’s OSCON and give the entire night to Why (and his band, The Thirsty Cups). My (very limited) notes are below.
Aug 04
Glenn Vanderburg presented on Metaprogramming Ruby. I thought it was quite interesting as I had only done this previously in ANSI Common Lisp. My notes from the talk are below.
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Aug 04
Richard Kilmer (from InfoEther, right in my backyard!) gave an amazing presentation/demo on ActionStep. He even took the time late last night/ealry this morning to build a demo with a Ruby on Rails back-end. Here are my notes from the session:
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Aug 04
Matz presented Yield to the Block: The Power of Blocks in Ruby at OSCON this morning. His slides are here.
Aug 04
The OSCON Thursday Keynotes had the following speakers:
- Conference Announcements – Nat Torkington, Conference Chair, O’Reilly Media, Inc.
- TCP/IP and Shipping Containers – Nick Gall, MetaGroup
- High Order Bit: Secrets Behind Ruby on Rails – David Heinemeier Hansson, 37Signals
- Enterprise IT: Open Source Powerhouse – Kartik Subbarao, HP
- Computational Origami: From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes – Robert Lang
- Interview: Mitchell Baker – Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation
- Identity 2.0 – Dick Hardt, Sxip Identity
Below are my notes from the keynotes (notes from keynotes? sounds redundant)
