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Scotland on Rails 2009
Scotland on Rails 2009 was held at the University of Edinburgh 26-28 March. I confess that when I registered and made travel plans I regarded the conference as a good excuse to visit Scotland but not much more. It ended up being one of the finest conferences I have attended in a while. Good assortment of sessions, fascinating speakers, a good venue and superlative organization made the conference as valuable an experience as it was enjoyable. The conference organizers deserve a lot of credit for the job they did.
For me, the highlight sessions included:
- Marcel Molina’s opening keynote — fascinating and humorous insight into the early development of Rails.
- Jim Weirich’s session “Building Blocks of Modularity” — turned out to actually be a thought provoking “Grand Unified Theory of Software Development”.
- Joe O’Brien’s and Jim Weirich’s “Ruby Code Review” — shined a light on taking simple steps to rein in untested code (and earned a good many guffaws in the process).
But, yeah, it was still a good excuse to visit Scotland.
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