{"id":79,"date":"2008-02-11T09:49:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/acts_as_conference\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T21:23:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T01:23:40","slug":"acts_as_conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielroop.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/acts_as_conference\/","title":{"rendered":"acts_as_conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend I had the pleasure to attend a local<\/abbr> conference, acts_as_conference<\/a>. The conference was described as an event that was focused on Ruby on Rails, but it seemed to be much more focused on Ruby, with Rails in mind. Overall I think the conference was a great success at $100 a seat it was well worth the money.<\/p>\n

If you want a full rundown you should head over to Brian LeGros’s<\/a> blog as he did a write up on each talk. Max<\/a> took a few pictures and put up some thoughts of his own, so if you want to get a British opinion go check there ;-).<\/p>\n

I went looking forward to both Dan Benjamin’s and Obie Fernandez’s keynote and Charles Nutter’s JRuby talk. I was impressed to find all the quality content that came up, especially Smarticus<\/a> (Bryan Liles), who I hadn’t heard about before this conference. He did a great presentation on BDD and what it really is, and how we are all doing it wrong. I found this especially refreshing because I am the ‘testing nazi’ at work and I have come to very similar conclusions that he did about TDD and BDD. At the very least he seemed to give some sort of credibility to my co-workers<\/a> about the whole idea of test first and how it works.<\/p>\n

If you didn’t get a chance to go this year I would encourage you to keep your heads up for next years event, because it is definitely worth it for all levels of ruby developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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