dave astels

Canada on Rails (including yours truly) got mention on the Linux Journal site.

Obie Fernandez did an installment of the Rails Podcast at Canada on Rails last week that has just hit the ‘net. The feature guest is Tim Bray (one of the fathers of XML), they discuss (among several other things) my CoR talk, BDD, and RSpec before Obie flags me down and pulls me in as well.

On the way to CoR (best guess… somewhere over Winnipeg), Nancy & I got the RubyCocoa based rSpec runner working. This was great because I was able to make it’s first public appearance part of my keynote.

BDD & rSpec got a great reception. There were loads of positive comments afterward.

During the Q&A following the talk, someone asked about setting the expected order of mock call expectations. I spent a half hour or so Friday evening and I’m happy to say that it’s supported now.

Oopps! We were making a point of getting to Thomas’ talk this morning… assuming (without double checking the program) that it started at 9 like yesterday. Oops. Today started at 8. I don’t get to work that early! I’ve barely had coffee by that time of day. Drat & bother. I really wanted to see that talk (on Ajax & Rails). At least I have the consolation of being able to watch it on the DVD.

Steve Baker and I were interviewed by Obie Fernandez for “coming soon” InfoQ for which Obie is the Ruby Community editor. Apparently the interview will be on the conference DVD as well.

I had my talk earlier this afternoon. It went down pretty well. People were interested and apparently it got people talking. Cool. Steve Baker followed it with a talk on using TDD for Rails development which had some good information in it and seemed to be well received as well.

Kyle presented RadRails… a Rails development environment built on top of Eclipse. Very cool. Suffice it to say I need to play with this.

We’re here and it’s begun

Opening ceremonies have just begun

And DHH is up now.

I’m writing this en-route from Montreal to Vancouver. Nancy & I scored a couple of awesome seats: Row 25 on an Air Canada Airbus 321.. exit row… with a full missing row ahead of us… and the 3 seats to ourselves. So we’re hacking our way across Canada.

As we were having dinner at the Montreal airport… does Nancy wonder about how the kids are doing? Did they remember their house keys? Did her folks pick them up ok? Did they remember to take their stuff? Or even how the dog was making out at her folks? Nope.

“I wonder how my kernel build made out?