Mark Howe » RailsConf in Berlin

RailsConf in Berlin

Three of us from the 3rdRail team along with Anders and Matthias are here in Berlin for RailsConf. This is our second RailsConf, the first one was in Portland earlier in the year. Being at RailsConf is really fun, it’s like being at JavaOne the first couple of years, when there was always something new and exciting. That’s exactly what’s it like here, everyone is excited, lots of energy, people talking excitedly about what they do or some cool meta pattern in rails.

Shelby and I did our talk yesterday (with an hour of sleep, u can never prepare too much :>). The demo gods messed with us a little by not having any internet access in our conference room but otherwise went well.

We also launched 3rdRail at the show and we are getting lots of interest at our booth. The first thing that causes everyones eyes to light up at is the code completion and refactoring. It usually takes a little longer for people to realize the power behind the Dependencies View, which is understandable since it’s totally new in any IDE. People are coming back after they have fired up 3rdRail and used the Dependencies View on their own project and telling us how cool it is.

DHH came by our booth and asked how things were going. He had an interesting idea about scripting 3rdRail. I had considered a refactoring language years ago when I was doing the refactoring on JBuilder. Maybe it’s time to re-visit that idea as I add more Ruby and Rails refactorings.

Gotta go talk to more people.

Cheers

Mark

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