Thoughts on SRC 2010…
Last week-end was the third Scottish Ruby Conference (well, technically the previous two were Scotland On Rails Conferences.) It continues to grow - three hundred attendees and three presentation tracks. Purely selfishly I think I preferred it just a little smaller and tighter, but it has scaled very well and I still enjoyed plenty of good talks and chats, so the total value from the event must be way up. Congratulations to organizers Paul, Alan, Graeme et al.
Overly abbreviated highlights: Tim Bray’s keynote on where Ruby isn’t (concurrency, enterprise and mobile) was provocative and very popular. My favorite talk was New Bamboo on how to do speed-run coding; amusingly presented, with a graph-backed economic motivation followed by dozens of juicy details. There was also an enlightening fight over the value or otherwise of mocks, about which I must not forget to blog in more detail. Finally I ditched the Saturday wrap-up party in favor of sleep before a coding retreat on the Sunday - I’ve always loved shorter gregarious kata sessions, and a full day did not disappoint.
