Greetings from Barcelona. I continued my marathon training today. I ran by the royal palace and the olympic flame. It is a beautiful city with mountains in the distance and plenty of history. Two from TSSJS have already been mugged though (no violence, fortunately), so I’m just taking a few euros and an id with me.
I gave my 10 things Java should steal from Ruby talk today.
Surprisingly enough, I drew somewhere shy of 150 (220 at the conference). The talk was very well received. My central thrust was that Java benefited from conservative stewardship in the past, but needs much more aggressive management to catch up conceptually, not just with Ruby, but also with .NET languages as well.
I covered closures (including Rails web services via responds to), continuations, convention over configuration, approachability of a language, simplicity, metaprogramming, and a handful of other topics. Half of the session was live Ruby demos…
no rotten tomatos!
I do an expert panel tomorrow morning, and my final talk on three technologies to watch. It’s primarily Ruby metaprogramming, but also covers some Seaside and other stuff.