Rails Summit Latin America 2008

Rails Summit Latin America 2008 was a great event at all. Nice speakers, nice people all around, good food. Only the weather wasn't so fine (above 30 C). The event started with DHH talking on new features of Ruby On Rails 2.2 answering questions of the crowd. I didn't liked it too much, mostly common questions with common answers by him, nothing special. <img alt="DHH on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" src="../../images/dhh-rails-summit-latin-america-2008.jpg" title="DHH on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" /> Then Chad Fowler comes and well really debut the event, he made an awesome presentation about be remarkable, talking about his book "My Job Went to India", his life as a musician and Doom player :-) <img alt="Chad Fowler on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" src="../../images/chad-fowler-rails-summit-latin-america-2008.jpg" title="Chad Fowler on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" /> After lunch, George Malamidis talked about REST. I didn't liked too much, was hard to me after lunch pay attention, after 9 hours driving in day before and an early wake up for the event. Dr Nic Williams talked on Open Source and encouraged people to contribuite more to Open Source Projects. Dr Nic Williams presented a very funny talk and I think if he could take a shot on a Saturday Night Live, if he don't want to be a developer anymore. He's the Jerry Seinfield of Ruby On Rails community. <img alt="Dr Nic on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" src="../../images/dr-nic-rails-summit-latin-america-2008.jpg" title="Dr Nic on Rails Summit Latin America 2008" /> Chris Wanstrath, his keynote was very similar to Ruby Hoedown keynote (good IMO, but I expected a little different). The summit ends the first day with a Birds of Feather were some participants presented random thoughts, Eduardo Bellani also gave his presentation at this time. This whole BoF was one of the funniest moments at Rails Summit Latin America 2008. 2008-10-21T03:10:18Z 33 rails-summit-latin-america-2008-review-day-1 Rails Summit Latin America 2008 - Review Day 1

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