12 Posts tagged with railsconf
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RailsConf '07 Roundup
David Heinemeier Hansson, by James Duncan Davidson. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND
I spent the past several days in Portland, OR, for RailsConf, the yearly gathering of the vibrant Ruby on Rails community. O’Reilly Media and Ruby Central put on an incredible conference. My only disappointment was that I couldn’t attend all of the presentations. Luckily, most of the presentation slides are online (some with accompanying code!!):
But by far, the most valuable part of the whole event was the time I spent in the hallways and around Portland with other Rails developers. In the two years I’ve been working with Rails, I’ve networked and collaborated with dozens if not hundreds of Rails developers online. It was great to finally be able to associate faces and voices with their respective names, blogs, and chat handles.
I also wrangled Erik Kastner and Charles Brian Quinn into the Capazon project while in Portland – look for some updates on that front in the near future.
A special thanks to the following folks for making my RailsConf an especially great time:
What to do in Portland while you're at RailsConf 2007
MyConfPlan Javascript Widget
I’ve hacked up a simple Javascript widget for everyone out there using myconfplan, Dr Nic Williams’ wonderful conference session planning tool. Nic recently added JSON and XML feeds to myconfplan, so this is a natural progression.
The XHTML generated by this widget is in hCalendar format, with separate events for each session. If you’re using a Microformats aware browser (or the wonderful microformats bookmarklet), you’ll be able to add my RailsConf sessions to your local calendaring app.
To display your conference session selections on your blog or website, insert these two lines of code:
<script src="http://files.jnewland.com/display_myconfplan.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="JSON_URL?callback=display_myconfplan" type="text/javascript"></script>Replace JSON_URL with the URL to the JSON feed for one of your conferences. For example, to display my RailsConf 2007 sessions in my sidebar, I used this:
<script src="http://files.jnewland.com/display_myconfplan.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://myconfplan.com/users/jnewland/conferences/RailsConf2007.js?callback=display_myconfplan" type="text/javascript"></script>Now seems like a good time to mention that I’ll be at RailsConf 2007 later this month in Portland, OR, and I couldn’t be more excited about it. You can view my session selections in the sidebar, on on myconfplan. Also, I’m staying at the Jupiter Hotel, which looks like a blast. Let me know if you’ll be there too!