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News update

Written by matt on June 17th, 2008

I realized I haven't updated this blog in a while. Here is a quick update on what's happened and on things to come:

  • RailsConf 08. Great conference, probably my last Rails Conf though. I'll be in Orlando for Ruby Conf 08 and I'll focus on 1 or 2 local conferences (probably mountain west and another one).

  • MerbCamp 08 in San Diego this Fall organized by SD Ruby. Details are not finalized yet but Yehuda Katz announced it during his Merb talk at RailsConf.

  • Moved this blog to a new Joyent accelerator with git support and finally have the possibility to use Ambition! (planning on moving from Mephisto to Feather)

  • Launched a client's Merb app and getting around 3 million hits/day. Merb is just awesome. (more info when the client's app gets out of beta)

  • I'll join Gregg Pollack from http://railsenvy.com/ during Qcon and take part in the Ruby for the Enterprise track. My talk will focus on Merb usage in real life.

  • Renamed my github username, new repo url: http://github.com/mattetti (sorry about that)

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  • Bradly Feeley on 17 Jun 21:11

    I'm curious why you this might be your last Rails Conf. As much as I've always wanted to go, I haven't been able to justify the $1,500-$2,000 for air, hotel, and ticket.

  • Matt Aimonetti on 17 Jun 22:11

    @bradly Rails Conf was great, I was positively surprised by the talks and I was able to socialize with a lot of people. The keynotes were a bit weak but in general I had a great time.

    My favorite part when I go to confs is to socialize and hack on stuff with various people. However I do less and less Rails and I there is more and more people coming to Rails Conf making it hard to spend quality time with people. Also, I don't like Las Vegas, and that's where Rails Conf will be next year.

    To sum up I think that most new and interesting stuff I learned at Rails Conf were not related to Rails and even though I was able to spend time with some of the caboose, Hashrocket, pivotal, powerset, Engine Yard, GitHub and Australian Rubyists I think going to smaller conferences makes networking easier.

    We'll see, maybe I'll change my mind after Ruby Conf (limited to 500 people)

    -Matt

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