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Mark Coleman, organizer of Rails Underground says:
"I'm a big fan of Scotland on Rails, and the first year, Alan Francis stood up and encouraged everyone to think about organising a local conference - I remember him saying that it's not as hard as it looks! So, that got me thinking, and when I knew that I wasn't going to make RailsConf in Las Vegas, and there was no RailsConf Europe, I thought "Why not?" Also, I thought it would be a good way of making a contribution back to the community that I've got so much from over the last couple of years."
Among the speakers we had:
- Keynote by Fred George – Rails is a Hammer
“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” – Abraham Maslow -
Charles Nutter – JRuby and Rails
Charles is the co-lead on the JRuby project. - Keynote by Yehuda Katz, leader member of the core teams for Rails and lead developer of the Merb project which I believe is now merging with Rails
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Geoffey Grosenbach –Bringing the Web to Your Desktop with MacRuby
Geoffrey is the boss of Topfunky Corporation, host of the Rails Podcast, and PeepCode producer -
Jim Weirich – Grand Unified Theory of Software
Jim is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC, and is the creator of rake. Jim is also a contributor to RubyGems and flexmock -
Obie Fernandez – Blood, Sweat and Rails
Insightful session geared towards current and aspiring Rails entrepreneurs or how to move from being a full-time coder into the treacherous world of business
Once again, JetBrain was represented. The first time I encountered this company was at QCon in March. It is really nice to see an Eastern European company represented at a conference as usually I can find only Western European or American ones. I am told that JetBrain developed the very successful inteliJ IDEA (java) and is now launching RubyMine for Ruby of course.
Just under 200 delegates came for the 2 days representing 12+ countries including Russia, Bulgaria and of course UK and our nearest neighbours.
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