I’m at RailsConf 2008 in Portland. Today was the tutorials day.
I went to two sessions. First was on refactoring. I think I’m pretty good at this already but I did pick up a few tips. They used an agile project management tool called strac. I didn’t agree with all the tips but I did get better clarification on when/how to do mixins cleanly.
The second session was a pretty big disappointment. I went to a talk on testing for developers. It just wasn’t well done at all. The presenter assumed we knew RSpec and he rarely explained what exactly he was doing. I readily admit that my Rails testing practices need improvement. I was hoping to get a little more hand holding on the right way to do it. This session didn’t deliver.
Tomorrow the main content gets underway. I’m looking forward to the talks. It feels like OSCON but the focus on Rails topics will be fun. And I’m bringing my laptop tomorrow. I tried the lightweight approach today but too many times I wanted to try something out or looks something up. They should rent out those Nokia handhelds for conferences. iPhone isn’t enough and a laptop is sometimes too much.
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