OSCON Kicks Off

It’s tutorial day here at OSCON, but some of us have been hard at it for days. I went to dinner on Saturday night with David A. Black of Ruby For Rails fame (me: “dude, your book got a perfect 10 on Slashdot! It’s you and Bo Derek, man!”) and James Duncan from Fotango. Last night I went to Damian Conway’s pre-conference “Presentation Aikido” tutorial, which we ran just for presenters to help them be the best they can be.

I poked my head into Dave Thomas’s “Ruby Guidebook“, our best-selling tutorial. Hot on his heels in signups, though was, Amy Hoy’s “Javascript Boot Camp“. Both were packed, and having a blast. Amy took in her stride a power failure in her room, which knocked out laptop power as well as audio–it was quickly remedied. Then I had a fun chat with Rich Bowen (Apache), Laura Thomson who shared her OSCON t-shirt economic indicator theory with Adam Turoff, and others. I love the hallway track!

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