For ease of use, I am making available my RubyConf 2006 Conference Notes as a single PDF. The notes are released as Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike, so do with them whatever you want.
Just as an appendix, here is a list of all the sessions I was able to take notes for.
Friday, October 20 2006
Welcome To [...]
I started to list the session that I liked the most and I soon noticed that I was listing the whole RubyConf schedule! I learned a lot from the all the speakers and from the questions of the audience. I also have to mention that RubyConf is a more intimate conference than say [...]
For the last session of RubyConf 2006, John Lam gave a talk by the name “You got your Ruby in my CLR!” RubyCLR is “a high-performance Ruby to .NET bridge that allows seamless integration of CLR and Ruby objects in the same Win32 process.” RubyCLR started as a tradition. John has a [...]
Justin Gehtland of Relevance gave a RubyConf session titled Streamlined: A Framework for Data-centric Web Applications. Streamlined is a Ruby on Rails application that is meant to be used in the back-end to manage and administer application data. According to Justin, these back-end administrative views are repetitive and similar, usually with a login, [...]
Ryan Davis and Jacob Harris came up with a fantastic idea of holding a RejectConf after the scheduled RubyConf sessions. RejectConf was held saturday night after Matz keynote and was made up of 5 to 10 minutes talks by rubyist whose session proposal was shot down by the RubyConf selection committee. RejectConf was [...]
Yukihiro ‘Matz’ Matsumoto, the language designer of Ruby, gave the keynote speech for RubyConf 2006. The keynote was titled The Return of the Bikeshed or Nuclear Plant in the Backyard. I didn’t know what the bike shed and nuclear power plant in the title referred to. I later discovered that is refers [...]