Martin Fowler’s keynote from RailsConf is online. It was a great speech and a worthwhile listen for anyone interested in software.

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Long days at RailsConf. Very long. I’ve been a bit dissapointed by the lack of technical information in the sessions, but have still remained engaged. Evan Z’s deployment talk was excellent, however. As were Mike Clark’s Testing and DHH’s general keynote in the evening.

In between things I’ve managed to chip away some code on my ticketing app, as well. Won’t quite be ready to deploy Monday as I had hoped, but it’s getting there.

The conference in general has been very useful to me, reflecting on some of the things going on in my professional career and where I really want to head. Clarifying for me what some of the things I really enjoy are. More on that later, however.

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I gave up on the hotel wireless. I got just enough love from the WiFi to find the instructions I needed to setup my Treo as a bluetooth modem, so now I’m on my own connection, as needed. Whohoo!

2 sessions down, several more. This is a long day that doesn’t wrap up until around 10pm tonight. I expect I’ll be pretty tired by then. Seth and I are taking pretty different tracks, which is probably good. We can share the knowledge later.

Adam’s talk this morning was very entertaining, and included performances of AC/DC classic by The Accordian Guy.

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The afternoon session of Guidebook covered some good topics, though I zoned out a bit due to some personal news I received.

Spent about an hour with Seth after the sessions going over some code and troubleshooting a few issues with his Rails app.

Now I’m sitting down in the ballroom. The hotel wireless can’t handle all these geeks! The setup another access point so we can at least get on the network down here in the ballroom — but we’re all still sharing the same T1, and it ain’t pretty.

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Wednesday night was slow. I took a long walk around the neighborhood. Seth’s luggage was lost, so didn’t hook up with him. And by the time a took another sweep downstairs trolling for socialability, the horde of powerbooks had been scattered by the onslaught of Senior Singles night at the hotel bar.

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