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RailsConf Europe is over

RailsConf Europe is over

That was RailsConf Europe 2007. It was way to soon over, but never the less it was a great experience. For Andi and me this was the first time we attended any conference and our expectations got surpassed. The atmosphere at the conference was just great, so next year we will be back for sure.

In this post I want to give just an general overview about the experience we had and I will post more on special topics that I found especially interesting. So let's start.

First of all, the speakers of the sessions I attended were just great. The keynotes were great too, of course.

Keynotes

The first keynote was held by Dave Thomas. He avoided to give a Rails centric talk and instead of this talked about writing beautiful code, engineering and art. For him we should act while coding a lot more like an artist does while painting for instance. For an artist it is nothing unusual to do massive prototyping and throw away those that doesn't fit. And he goes further when he said, developing software for a customer is a lot like drawing a portrait. It's not about just capturing the surface, that's what we have pictures for. Portraits, like software, is more about going under the surface, seeing what's behind the obvious and find the unique characteristics of a person or the customer needs. He closed his keynote with the words "engineering is in art and art is in engineering". So the one cannot exist without the other.

I think there is a lot of truth in those words. Only something that is build with beauty and elegance, what ever this means for a certain domain, can be considered as a great work engineering. Ruby and Rails are both tools that allow us to come with this challenge more easily than some other technologies. We should take that chance and wield our tools well to build better applications that comply better to needs of their users.

The other keynote I want to mention here was held by Craig McClanahan from Sun. He had only 15 minutes but nevertheless he had a lot to say. DHH mentioned already some part of his speak, so I want to concentrate on the parts I found especially interesting. Besides that is heavily investing in bringing Rails to the enterprises with their broad support of JRuby and NetBeans 6.0 he mentioned that the typical Rails application less a Web 2.0 Application is than thought generally. McClanahan doesn't even call it Web 2.0 but Next Generation Web. For him it is more about mash-up systems that aggregate services from different sources all over the web to provide a new experience to their users.

While in the Java world services and service oriented architectures more accepted and spreaded in the Rails world we lack at many places this insight. To confirm this statement he mentioned some plugins that rely heavily on ActiveRecord::Base instead of providing their functionality independently. Even in the Java programming language you can build extensions that are generically integrated so Ruby must be by design better suited for this task. He called this Duct Tape Typing instead Duck Typing.

I think McClanahan is very right in what he said at his keynote. Maybe Rails developers should look more what happens over there in the Java world. Those guys are building webapps for years and made a lot of mistakes over that time. But those mistakes have been identified and addressed. So why not learn from them, Java isn't only a fully bloated language. You can see beautiful OO design and architecture coming from there.

For our actual project we need to do some refactoring anyway, so I think this is a perfect time to look over the code with that at the back our mind's.

The rest of the keynotes were still interesting but I'm not gonna mention them here. I'm sure others will do so, and those I wrote about were those that had fascinated me the most. I'm a little busy at the moment so the posts about the other interesting stuff will take some more time.

Thanks for reading!

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