RailsConf 2006 Keynote Series: Dave Thomas

Posted by Michael Cervieri Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:21:00 GMT

A warm greeting to those who attended RailsConf 2006, and an equally warm greeting to those who couldn’t. Dave Thomas opened the conference by challenging the Rails community to attack and solve various issues in the following keynote:

Due to the popularity of this video it has been moved to a permanent home at ScribeMedia.org
From No Fluff Just Stuff:
Dave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software—accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly speak on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Addison-Wesley) and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide (Pragmatic Bookshelf).

RailsConf 2006 Keynote Series Release Schedule.

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  1. grimmwerks said about 3 hours later:

    Wait…wasn’t he the guy that started Wendy’s?

  2. MJC said about 6 hours later:

    There’s also the actor:

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858686/

  3. Brian Ritchie said 3 days later:

    When will the rest of the conference be available?

  4. Brian Ritchie said 3 days later:

    oops, nevermind. I just read the main rubyconf page that says the series will be released every few days. Thank you :)

  5. Abdur-Rahman said 4 days later:

    Would be nice to have the original slides…

  6. Sam Aaron said 6 days later:

    Yeah, I agree with Abdur-Rahman. If there was some way of including the original slides then that would make it much more useful. Are they at all available, as just flicking through them myself on keynote/powerpoint would certainly be doable.

  7. john said 7 days later:

    well, I don’t get it.

    The deployment ideas are great.

    And I would like to see scaffolding become more useful. But I would hate to see Ajax incorporated in that unless it was through plugins. Sounds like a really big mess otherwise. OT: scaffolding it self would make a better plugin than core feature IMHO .

    And Dave suggests some cool stuff concerning AR using DB info to automatically do some linking and validating for us.

    But all this talk about seducing ‘enterprise’ companies is ridiculous. Thats really the part I don’t get. Im done with rails the same day it compromises good design for commercial success with the big boys.

    I kind of lost some respect for Dave while seeing this. I felt like he was asking us to make rails appeal to big corporations so he could sell more books and do more consulting. Bummer.

    oh well. I trust DHH will take good care of his baby forever so Im not worried.

    Keep it simple and smart guys, john

  8. Carl Youngblood said 7 days later:

    They said that they were going to synchronize these with the slides! They should release these in wide format with the slides on the right side and the speaker on the left. Please ScribeMedia, tell us you’re going to do that!

  9. meekish said 7 days later:

    I agree with John; the day Rails becomes all things to all people is the day it becomes bloatware. Rails is supposed to be opinonated software right?

  10. chong said 7 days later:

    This is a great talk.

    I especially agree on the following points 1) both client and server validation and more focus on view side. 2) two phase transaction support for distributed database 3) Decouple the model and active record to support non relational data – such as message queue 4) Simple deployment

  11. MSF said 7 days later:

    Carl, et al, the complete works of RailsConf (Chicago) 2006 will be available separately on a different site. We’re just posting some selections here for immediate digestion. We’ll provide more instructions soon.

  12. Anthony Bailey said 7 days later:

    This AMD64 Linux box user wonders if there’s any chance of a download in a more generic format?

  13. DGM said 8 days later:

    Interesting. At the end of every clip, my browser crashes. Ubuntu 6.06, firefox 1.5.0.4

  14. Tom said 11 days later:

    Are the slides available online anywhere currently?

  15. Mike said 16 days later:

    Yeah, Ubuntu 6.06/Firefox 1.5, browser crashes after each clip as well. Also, skipping around on the timeline really doesn’t work very well.

  16. film student said 21 days later:

    it would be nice when a speaker is referencing a slide, that the cinematographer would actually show the slide.

  17. Stoffe said 27 days later:

    Running Flash 9 inside Crossover Office works very well with these slides (ubuntu 6.06). Maybe inside vanilla Wine too. Flash 7 for Linux has a tendency to crash for just about everything…

    That said, some free format vids would be even better.

  18. Bala Paranj said 30 days later:

    If you really want to make Rails gain market share in the interprise please do so by having a separate Enterprise Edition. Do not sacrifice the simplicity and the joy of developing web apps using Rails.

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