RailsConf

A few highlights from my first day at RailsConf:

• Getting up at 3 for a 6am flight sucks. I already knew this. I really didn’t need the reminder.
• The cabbie that carted me back from my recent Petco shopping spree told me to call him for the ride to the aiport. Not only did he remember, but he was outside waiting before I even called.
• Plane is taxiing out to take off, but we pull out of line and sit there for a few minutes. We end up going back to the terminal because a computer died that we needed for the flight + weather. Uhh… Not feeling inspired!
• Portland light rail is pretty nice and also a quick, direct to the convention center
• First session choices all kinda sucked, so I went for the ‘entrepreneur’ session, which was *packed*. So packed, late in the session the fire marshal came by and cleaned everyone out that wasn’t sitting.
• Yelowpages.com session about their wholesale rewrite from Java-based to Rails-based site was very cool. They’re completely rails, 2.5 million searches a day, less than 20k lines of code, 5 or less devs doing the coding work. Was very interesting to hear a first-hand account of the project.