Dave Thomas is set to headline this keynote… I’ve always enjoyed reading the Pragmatic Programmers books…
Interesting logo ideas… “Rails is Love”…
Donations: $12,075 (Guidebook) + $9178 (Donations) + $1736 (T-Shirts) + $3000 (Large Individual Donations) = $26,000
And it just keeps going. Let’s try to push donations from EACH tech conference… sharing the wealth.
He’s talking about Anxiety.. and how speakers have red and green lights on them with a timer to “help them with their timing and anxiety”… James Duncan Davidson taking pictures… funny stuff, you never know what might come out of the photos.
Quoting from Ze: “More people partaking in authorship” … right now, that is TOTALLY right… user generated content.
The Rails community is the same thing… we’re all publishing and authoring in the Rails community… and we need to figure out how to welcome non-programmers and new people who want to learn… we need to embrace them.
We’re all sitting in wooden huts… cargo cults… like the browser (reinventing the half-duplex 3270)… video games are where it’s at… more complicated and you can control it with two thumbs! Break out of the cargo cult of interaction with users…
It’s called Object-Oriented, not Class-Oriented… right now we’re sub-classing and modeling our world with hierarchical structures, which is not how nature works…
Challenge: try write your next OOP ruby program (real code) with objects and no classes… see what happens.
Another Ze Quote: “The content of a conversation is in the focus.”
Have Fun and Do Good….
This was one of the better keynote talks… great stuff… really inspiring…
Love the 3270 analogy:
http://smoothspan.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/why-vista-why-mac-why-not-web-look-out-world-things-like-air-are-on-fire/