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Heading to Portland for RailsConf... by foot
Yay! It’s almost conference time… and I’m almost completely thrilled!
Why am I not more thrilled? Well, mainly because RailsConf is being hosted here in Portland, which means that I don’t get to travel by train like we did last year via The Argon Express. (ah… the memories)
One perk of being here already… is that I get to act as a tour guide to visitors. For example, earlier today… Josh Susser (hasmanyjosh) joined Graeme and I for lunch in downtown Portland, OR. It was exciting to hear about how he and his fellow Rubyists at Powerset are using Ruby and Rails for various projects. John also spent a few minutes introducing us to Merb, which some people think will become popular in near future. We’re expecting more visitors to come by the offices over the next few days.
If you’re in Portland already (Wednesday)... you might head over to the Lucky Lab for a game of Werewolf, which I believe Michael Buffington is organizing the event. I’m going to try to make it… maybe I’ll see you there!
Flickr Group
I created a flickr group named RailsConf 2007, and started to use the tag railsconf2007 for flickr photos. I look forward to seeing all your photos from the event!
IRC Channel
As of this afternoon, there are almost 20 people hanging out in #railsconf on freenode. Stop by and introduce yourself!
Portland Revealed
If you haven’t already subscribed to our feed, you might have missed that the PLANET ARGON team has been posting several articles about things to do, see, and drink in Portland during your visit to RailsConf. Here are a few that we’ve posted so far.
- Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown
- Portland Revealed: Episode 3: Get outdoors
- Portland Revealed: Episode 4: Stay Awake During RailsConf
- Portland Revealed: Episode 5: Places to Work
- More coming soon!
You can also peak around GoSeeOregon (a Rails application!) to find places around town to go see.
RailsConf is coming to Beertown
The team at PLANET ARGON is continuing a series of blog posts for all of you who are coming to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007. Allison just posted Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown, which provides a list of places to get good beer in Portland… starting at the PDX Airport to other places around the conference center. We even through in a platial map to make the beer hunt easier for you. :-)
RailsConf is coming to Beertown
The team at PLANET ARGON is continuing a series of blog posts for all of you who are coming to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007. Allison just posted Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown, which provides a list of places to get good beer in Portland… starting at the PDX Airport to other places around the conference center. We even through in a platial map to make the beer hunt easier for you. :-)
RailsConf is coming to Beertown
The team at PLANET ARGON is continuing a series of blog posts for all of you who are coming to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007. Allison just posted Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown, which provides a list of places to get good beer in Portland… starting at the PDX Airport to other places around the conference center. We even through in a platial map to make the beer hunt easier for you. :-)
RailsConf is coming to Beertown
The team at PLANET ARGON is continuing a series of blog posts for all of you who are coming to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007. Allison just posted Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown, which provides a list of places to get good beer in Portland… starting at the PDX Airport to other places around the conference center. We even through in a platial map to make the beer hunt easier for you. :-)
Don't Go Hungry During RailsConf 2007
If you’re going to be coming to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007, be sure to check out the new Urban Edibles website. Michael Bunsen gave a short demonstration of it at the Portland Ruby Brigade monthly meeting. If you’re looking for fig and pear trees within the city limits of Portland, this is the site for you!
Business of Rails Panel at RailsConf 2007
Trying to finish my book and running PLANET ARGON consumes quite a bit of my time… so when the RailsConf people announced that they were accepting proposals for talks, I opted to pass so that it wouldn’t distract from my sprint to finish my book. :-)
This decision was even easier for me when Nathaniel Talbot invited me to be part of his proposal for a panel of people that are running companies that specialize with Ruby on Rails. I liked the idea and the other people that were invited were all people that I greatly admired and respected… so I said yes. After all, so much of my time and energy goes into this stuff and there isn’t any doubt that I spend way more time on the business side of Rails… than in code these days.
I just got an email from Nathaniel to let me know that his proposal was accepted.
So, if you’ll be at RailsConf 2007 (US), come see me on The Business of Rails panel session.
The following people are planned to be on the panel.
Moderator: Nathaniel Talbott, Terralien Inc.
Panelists include:
- Justin Gehtland, Relevance, LLC
- Geoffrey Grosenbach, Topfunky Corporation
- Andre Lewis, earthcode.com
- Joe O’Brien, EdgeCase, LLC
- Robby Russell, Planet Argon, LLC
I hope that you all send Nathaniel some great (and tough) questions… ;-)