Jun 19, 2010 2
My late impressions on EuRuKo 2010
I should have written this a long time ago, however maybe it’s for the best, since this way I can write about the talks I remember the most.
This year’s EuRuKo conference came to an end. First of all I’d like say a big
“Thank you” to the organizers. Apart from the weird registration process they
did their job well. The conference room where the talks took place was a bit small (for the number of people attending) however nobody complained since it was a backup venue for the one that has been flooded.
I really enjoyed this year’s talks. I think they were even better that those during the last year’s EuRuKo in Barcelona.
Day #1
Matz had problems flying in to Cracow, so his talk was swapped with “Profiling Ruby 1.9″ by Piotr Szotkowski. Piotr presented some really interesting workflow of optimizing ruby code. One lesson that I
learned: don’t necessary trust the standard library. Sometimes you can end up with a significantly faster piece of code for your given use case than a standard library method. The ideas and examples of the talk were clear so it was a pleasure to listen to.
The second talk I also liked was Rocky Bernstein’s “Rbdbgr, a debugger for Ruby 1.9″. I think Rocky’s project is really promising. I got a chance to talk with Rocky after his talk and he confirmed that in the long term a version for JRuby is possible so I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
José Valim did a very good job on his talk “DSL or NoDSL? – The power is in the middle”. The examples were very good, interesting questions from the crowd, and no answer for the topic question :-).
I have to mention Florian Hanke’s “Building a search engine with Ruby” – he had the funniest slides (I especially liked the one with Matz in a car on ruby wheels) :-).
Day #2
The second day of the conference brought some nice talks as well. I liked Sven Fuchs’ “Anatomy of Ruby i18n” (also everybody got to know how to pronounce his name via one of the slides :-)).
The best public speaker was Scott Chacon with “Gittin down to the plumbing”. You may not like git or the overall topic, but I think Scott was really well prepared. He spoke dynamically and had excellent examples.
Marcin Kulik presented a nice topic of “Building web frameworks with Rack” however it was difficult to hear him at the back of the room. Good thing the recordings have been published so it’s easy to watch it again.
Neil Straford from Tropo.com presented some amazing stuff regarding voice enabling your application. Definitely something to play with, especially there’s a free sandbox for developers set up.
The lighting talks were nice as usual. I really enjoyed Fernando Gullien’s lighting talk about his zombie game (masterpiece !).
To sum up the conference was a blast. I’m really looking forward to the next year’s event in Berlin !
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