This’ll be a bit shorter than some of my previous conference wrapups — I’m pretty tired at the moment, but I wanted to get down some thoughts relatively soon. I thought the first day of RubyNation went very well. I saw some excellent presentations (incuding one by my co-worker Tony), had a lot of fun catching up with the rest of the Viget development staff (since we’re all here together), saw some old friends, and was finally able to give my talk early in a conference (as opposed to my recent trend of speaking on the last day).
This was the first time I’ve given this particular talk, “Comics” Is Hard: Domain Modeling Challenges, and like all first-time talks I was a bit anxious about it. Luckily, a large portion of it consists of me expounding upon the insanity of the comic book industry, which I cand talk about for hours if need be. Overall, I think the talk went pretty well, and I’m very excited to give it again (in London and Chicago, at least) after I have the chance to revise a few aspects of it (particularly, tweaking the balance between the problem and solution sections). My one real regret is that taking questions of Twitter, which worked so well at Railsconf, utterly failed here due to some difficulties with the conference wireless. By the way - if you saw the talk, please rate it on SpeakerRate
It’s also very nice to be back in Reston, at the Town Center, I haven’t been by here for at least a couple of years, and after having lived half a mile away for several years it’s fascinating to see how things have changed.
Ben, the slides seem really interesting but some context from the talk itself would be great. Do you know if the talk was recorded and hosted anywhere? You mention London, where and when is this?
Not sure if it was recorded - I’d keep an eye on the RubyNation site to see if they mention anything about it.
I’ll be speaking in London at Rails Underground (http://rails-underground.com/) in late July, and I’m fairly sure it’ll be a version of this talk.