http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/06/24/railsconf2006-saturday en-us 40 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 <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.org">Rails</a> will be laid down from Chicago to Des Moines soon!<br/><br/> <a href="http://www.hackdiary.com">Matt's</a> BBC Catalogue session was great. He seemed like one of the more accomplished speakers at the event. <a href="http://brianspl.at">Ezra's</a> 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.<br/><br/> 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...<br /><br /> <b>UPDATE:</b> <a href="http://kuniform.org/">Jason Kunesh's</a> 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.<br/><br/> <a href="http://clarkware.com/cgi/blosxom">Mike Clark's</a> 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. Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:11:00 +0000 urn:uuid:7a94c6d7-80e9-48c1-8275-fe66de64b4d6 Steve Longdo http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/06/24/railsconf2006-saturday railsconf2006 rails