This past week I attended the Voices That Matter Professional Ruby Conference in Boston with three of my co-workers from Sports Technologies. I learned a lot from all of the speakers and it was great to meet other Rubyists and hear about the types of things they are working on.
ActsAsFlinn and Myself talking to the guys from ThoughtBot
Some of the best things I took away from the conference were to focus on testing, and push to improve the process of the product cycle where I work. I also got a lot out of watching the guys from ThoughtBot talk about refactoring code. They had a lot of good tips.
Nick Quaranto (pictured on the left in the photo above) did a great job live blogging the conference and took notes with all the sessions.
Matt Bauer did a talk about Berkeley DB and used a cycling related application he is working on called Pedal Brain for some of the examples. I talked to him briefly about it, and I am excited to see what comes of it. Hopefully I can help beta test!
