InfoQ: Rockstar Memcaching. Tobi’s talk from rubyfringe.

Giles Bowkett’s presentation from Ruby Fringe. part ruby-midi generation, part cultural manifesto. 500 slides so they just put it into the video. this presentation was awesome.

Dan Grigsby’s RubyFringe talk: Deployment Monoculture. i really enjoyed this one. it’s about being a software entrepreneur.

rubyfringejazz.muxtape.com. Nick Sieger did a talk at rubyfringe about the evolution of jazz and how it relates to ruby. this is the muxtape of what he played.

Demo of Github’s Gist. which is like pastie but with a git repo behind it. very cool and intro’d at rubyfringe.

RubyFringe Roundup: The Best Ruby Conference Ever?. “I hope that RubyFringe does for web conferences what Rails did for web development; show others that there is a better way” - Mark McGranaghan of TechCrunch. hell ya.

spain, rubyfringe, iphone

I’m back from Spain. It was awesome. Barcelona is my new favorite city. Also, the Citroen C2 is amazingly roomy for a tiny car and has an insane turning radius. Hopefully I’ll steal Auriol’s photos soon and you can all see them.

I landed at 9pm on Friday and headed immediately to the opening night event of RubyFringe, Unspace’s punk-rock tech conference. The whole thing was an unmitigated success (in my humble opinion) and I was very glad that everyone I asked seemed to agree. All of the presentations ranged from “awesome” to “best I’ve ever seen”. The food and parties set a new bar for tech conferences (in my humble opinion). Though lots of people helped out, my fellow unspacer Meghann deserves an insane amount of applause for doing such an amazing job organizing and planning the event. Checkout what people are saying about RubyFringe on Twitter here and tons of photos on flickr here.

And now that I’m back, I went out and bought a 16GB iPhone. $90 a month to the man (Ted Rogers). Maybe I should buy like $1000 worth of Rogers stock just so I feel like I’m not getting completely screwed by this GSM monopoly.