Luca Guidi

In the last week-end I was at the Pop Art! exposition.

More than 50 artists (including Warhol, Lichtenstein and Rauschenberg) 100 works, from 1956 and 1968, for trace the history of the pop art movement.

Roberto Manicardi © 2007

The conference

It was a great conference, with more than 1200+ people, 24 talks, distributed in 5 parallels sessions:

• Core Java, what's hot
• Next generation Web
• Java enterprise
• Open Source
• (Plus)

Impressions

The first impression was.. Wow!! The college was full of students, developers, managers, sponsors and whatever.. Surely, the tons of mails has worked.

My speech was about JRuby and DSLs. I talked of the theory of the Domain Specific Language with some Ruby examples.

Of course, I'm proud to be a speaker of the biggest italian IT conference, but it was hard to talk to an audience made up, for an half, of people that never worked, and for the 95% never heard about Ruby and Rails. Anyway, I received positive feedbacks, and a lot of guys asked to me and Paolo Donà (speaker of the following talk) some questions about the language and the framework.
You can find my presentation on my slideshare page.

Thanks

Thanks to all guys. See you at the next event.

Everything is ready for the Rome JavaDay 2007: 4 parallel sessions, 24 talks and more than 1000+ subscripters.
See you there.

© 2007 Thomas Fuchs

Rails To Italy was an interesting event, the first one organized by the italian rails community. It was great experience, expecially because it was my first time in a conference, as speaker, of course. I'm receiving a lot of mail about my speech a ton of guy are interested about the plugin I have presented.

Luca Guidi

My talk was about a plugin that I have realized as extension of Globalize.
i18n is an annoyng issue, because of you have to deal with a lot of problems regarding different people from different countries. Globalize try to make easier those problems, but not enough.
Click To Globalize try to make things more easy: you can translate your views in place!!.
You can find it into the 23 Labs repository: [Click To Globalize].

David Heinemeier Hansson

A Q&A videoconf session with the Rails creator.

Zed Shaw

This guy is the creator of Mongrel, he talked about the programmer ethic and about the communication of a team. Of course he has exalted Ruby as self-speaking language, it's ideal for DSLs and a better communication.

James Cox

This talk was very interesting, it was about Rails scalability. It's the hot topic of the community. He gave a lot of tips and snippets to improve the prerformances of a Rails application.

Desi McAdam

She's the founder of DevChix a foundation which promotes and encourages girls into the programmin world. She talked about her association and REST design in Rails.

Nicholas Wieland

Lead developer of Zooppa, a user-created advertising platform, born in 40 days. They haven't had analysis or UML diagrams, just few jpg mocks.
I think it's a great example of agile and pragmatic programming: no over-engineering stuff, just code it!!

Thomas Fuchs

This guy is a myth!! I love his works and his developing style!! He is the creator of script.aculo.us, member of Prototype and of the Rails core team.
He showed a 2.0 Preview of his framework: plugins, console, rewriting, performances, effects reusability and concatenation!!

Paolo Donà

He is a showman, nice presentation of his widgets plugin.

Ettore Berardi

A quick comparision of: Ferret, Sphinx and Solr from real applications.

Eyal Oren

A great talk from a great researcher and also the author of ActiveRDF. He talked about semantic web and about the web 3.0 (web of the data).

Lisa Todd

This girl from DevChix was at her first tech speech, she talked about the Rails testing with RSpec.

Daniel Hahn

He is the team leader of Talia: a web semantic application I'm working on. He showed the state of the art and some nice features.

Ben Scofield

Unleashing the power of blocks: a very interesting speech on Ruby blocks.

Luca Mearelli

A quick overview about Capistrano 2.0.

Norbert Crombach

This young guy showed some nice tips and tricks about Rails.

Thank you to all, guys. See you the next year!!.

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Sunday I went to a Stanley Kubrik exhibition in Rome. He is one of my favourite directors.

The exhibition is full of screenplays, shots and things regarding his movies. It was very exciting!!

If you are in Rome you can visit Palazzo delle Esposizioni until the Jan 6th, 2008.