Thanks for sharing these James! With so many conf videos out there it's great to get some recommended viewing.
New Orleans? Have you watched the HBO drama 'Treme'? After RailsConf Baltimore I'm beginning to think ruby organisers are choosing cities from their favourite tv shows. - Mike On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:04 PM, James Healy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I didn't run into any other Australians at Rubyconf in November (Dr > Nic doesn't count, he defected) so now that most of the videos are > available I thought I'd share my highlights. > > In no particular order, here are six talks I saw and enjoyed or missed > and regretted when I heard the buzz: > > > http://confreaks.net/videos/376-rubyconf2010-anthropology-of-ruby-excavating-its-gems > I'm a sucker for an interesting graph, and Jeremy's work on mining the > set of historical rubygems for interesting data was eye opening. > > http://confreaks.net/videos/371-rubyconf2010-debugging-ruby > Aman's talk was dense, but a nice overview of some tools useful for > debugging MRI and REE apps. Skims a lot of topics with links to more > info. > > http://confreaks.net/videos/427-rubyconf2010-zomg-why-is-this-code-so-slow > Aaron Patterson managed to hit it out of the park with a talk that was > technically engaging and hilarious. Plenty of people considered it > their favourite talk of the conference. > > > http://confreaks.net/videos/435-rubyconf2010-the-enterprising-rubyist-bootstrapping-your-business-with-ruby > I missed this one, but for enterprising types it was popular. > > http://confreaks.net/videos/431-rubyconf2010-keynote-why-ruby > DHHs keynote wasn't particularly noteworthy in ways you might expect - > I walked out wondering if I was at a drug legalisation conference > instead of a rubyconf. odd. > > http://confreaks.net/videos/468-rubyconf2010-unblocked > James is well known for reading others code to learn new idioms. In > this talk he shared some uncommon (and unwise) yet interesting ways to > use blocks. For bonus points he made me laugh and has an cute tendency > to relate everything to his newborn baby. > > James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
