Sean Mountcastle

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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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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Matz presented Yield to the Block: The Power of Blocks in Ruby at OSCON this morning. His slides are here.

Constraints are LiberatingOriginally uploaded by Sean Mountcastle.

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)

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Since I took quite a bit of notes at DHH’s Extracting Rails from Basecamp session, I thought I’d include them below. Note that these are just my raw notes, primarily for those who were unable to attend (and aren’t in Portland, as apparently David is doing the talk again at “FOSCON” (free-OSCON) for those who couldn’t afford to attend).

Update Aug 4, 2005: I was misinformed about FOSCON, evidently David gave the Rails keynote which he is going to do this morning (I’ll have a separate post on this later).

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Here are my notes for the OSCON sessions I attended on Wednesday, except for “Extracting Rails from Basecamp” where I essentially blogged it while I was in the room. To save folks the trouble of clicking on the “more” link if they’re not interested, here is the list of talks I attended (notes below):

• The Google Open Source Update
• Yahoo! Web Services and Yahoo! Widgets (aka Konfabulator)
• Switching from CVS to Subversion: Case Studies in Migrating Your Team to a New Tool
• How to Serve a Billion Requests a Day with Perl
• Scalable Computing with MapReduce

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