RailsConf2006 Saturday...
The wifi at this venue is a bit wonky so I haven't been able to post as much as I thought I would. Ran into some more people from Iowa at the conference. I think there are five of us just from Des Moines. Hopefully the Rails will be laid down from Chicago to Des Moines soon!
Matt's BBC Catalogue session was great. He seemed like one of the more accomplished speakers at the event. Ezra's deployment talk was extremely crowded! Deployment difficulty seems to be a common theme at the conference. Shared hosting is really taking a beating from the speakers here.
My phone's camera/memory card decided to eat almost all the photos I have taken so far. Which is a bummer, I really wanted to post a picture of the guy wearing the "acts_as_cool" shirt...
UPDATE: Jason Kunesh's talk which dealt with Accessibility/Usability was surprisingly interesting to me. I've been aware of 508a guidelines, but having something as simple as a live demonstration of a screen reader really brings home how different a web experience is for someone using the screen reader. The statistics he presented for blindness by 2020 were alarming.
Mike Clark's testing session was a let down, mostly because the information level was fairly basic, then again I've been following information from him about testing and automation for a long time.
Matt's BBC Catalogue session was great. He seemed like one of the more accomplished speakers at the event. Ezra's deployment talk was extremely crowded! Deployment difficulty seems to be a common theme at the conference. Shared hosting is really taking a beating from the speakers here.
My phone's camera/memory card decided to eat almost all the photos I have taken so far. Which is a bummer, I really wanted to post a picture of the guy wearing the "acts_as_cool" shirt...
UPDATE: Jason Kunesh's talk which dealt with Accessibility/Usability was surprisingly interesting to me. I've been aware of 508a guidelines, but having something as simple as a live demonstration of a screen reader really brings home how different a web experience is for someone using the screen reader. The statistics he presented for blindness by 2020 were alarming.
Mike Clark's testing session was a let down, mostly because the information level was fairly basic, then again I've been following information from him about testing and automation for a long time.