Mountain West RubyConf 2008 videos available.

[Phillip Gawlowski]

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Well, at least some (I can't really judge, but compared to the videos on
the same site available for MWCF2007, they aren't all up yet):

http://mwrc2008.confreaks.com/

I've so far watched:

Giles Bowkett's Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming
talk which was nifty.

Jeremey McAnally's Deep Ruby talk (which was interesting in an academic
sense to me, but is probably very informative for all you Ruby
implementation hackers out there).

The videos are in good quality (but by no means bandwidth friendly!).

There seems to be a bit of everything for everybody on the conference
tracks, so check it out (and the other talks they offer for download for
different conferences).

Thanks to the presenters for giving the talks, the Confreaks guys for
making the talks available for poor souls like me (If any one wants to
sponsor me to MW RubyConf2009, I take small, used notes, thank you ),
and of course many thanks to the organizers of the conferences in the
first place. I appreciate all of this a lot.

- -- Phillip Gawlowski
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[pat eyler]

Hey Phillip,

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Well, at least some (I can't really judge, but compared to the videos on
the same site available for MWCF2007, they aren't all up yet):

Nope, they're not all there yet, but Confreaks are getting them uploaded at
a pretty good clip.

http://mwrc2008.confreaks.com/

I've so far watched:

Giles Bowkett's Code Generation: The Safety Scissors Of Metaprogramming
talk which was nifty.

Jeremey McAnally's Deep Ruby talk (which was interesting in an academic
sense to me, but is probably very informative for all you Ruby
implementation hackers out there).

You should really watch Jim Weirich's closing keynote too. And if you're
digging around in the internals of Ruby, Patrick Farley's talk is going to
be a huge help. I can't wait to see it posted.

The videos are in good quality (but by no means bandwidth friendly!).

There seems to be a bit of everything for everybody on the conference
tracks, so check it out (and the other talks they offer for download for
different conferences).

Thanks to the presenters for giving the talks, the Confreaks guys for
making the talks available for poor souls like me (If any one wants to
sponsor me to MW RubyConf2009, I take small, used notes, thank you ),
and of course many thanks to the organizers of the conferences in the
first place. I appreciate all of this a lot.

Thanks. We had a great time putting things together, but hearing that
people appreciate the work makes it even sweeter.

 

[Phillip Gawlowski]

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pat eyler wrote:

|
| Nope, they're not all there yet, but Confreaks are getting them
uploaded at
| a pretty good clip.

I've noticed. And the archives kept me busy while waiting for the MWRC08
videos. It's a great resource, I have to say, and I learned a lot. I'm
sure to revisit some talks in the future.

| You should really watch Jim Weirich's closing keynote too. And if you're
| digging around in the internals of Ruby, Patrick Farley's talk is going to
| be a huge help. I can't wait to see it posted.

Yeah, I'm doing that right now. I absolutely love the first part. The
replacement talk's great, too, though.

And while I'm not really into digging around in Ruby's guts, learning
about how Ruby works is interesting on many levels.


| Thanks. We had a great time putting things together, but hearing that
| people appreciate the work makes it even sweeter.

You are welcome. I really, really like the videos, and it's great to
have the slides integrated the way Confreaks do it. Just great.

Compared with Google's Tech Talks, I prefer the Confreaks videos by a
wide margin.

- -- Phillip Gawlowski
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