Woke up at 7am and ran to the Yoga session. Portland seemed to be more beautiful in the morning twilight, and sun rays falling on the sleeping hills.
Joel Spolsky’s keynote presentation, if nothing else, was weird, informative and interesting.
Joel has been critical of the Rails at times, and it was very bold of the conference organizers to invite him.
Dan Benjamin’s session Entrepreneur on Rails was overfilled. It turned out to be one of the few a great non-code talks.
The other sessions I attended today were Hosting Woes by Engine Yard guys, Managing Complex searching in Rails by Steve Midgley, The profitable programmer panel, and Do’s and don’t of real life deploys by Chris Wanstrath. Chris is not just smart, but very hilarious too.
I also met few more people from India.
I’m meeting Vishal and few other guys for dinner. There is a lot of information to digest. The day is beautiful. The sessions were informative. I’m excited by the knowledge dip I’m getting.
And you gotta drink the beer from a brewery and you would never drink from a bottle again.