The RubyFringe Videos: Vids From The Summer’s Hottest Conference
Remember RubyFringe, the avant-garde Ruby conference held in Canada this September? According to most reports, it went down as possible the best Ruby conference ever and spawned some very interesting presentations - that those of us who didn't go wouldn't have seen..
Luckily, in conjunction with InfoQ, videos from RubyFringe are making it online - so far there are four to check out:
Obie Fernandez - Do The Hustle : Obie Fernandez of HashRocket looks at how to sell and price development services. How do you deal with proposals, contracts, RFPs? How do you close deals? It's all in here.
John Lam - Ruby Beyond Rails : John Lam (developer of IronRuby for Microsoft) talks about dynamic languages, and the challenges involved in developing IronRuby.
Nick Sieger Interview : Nick Sieger is quizzed on JRuby, Java integration, and other Java / Ruby crossover projects.
Dan Grigsby - Deployment Monoculture : Dan Grigsby on the concept of "trying out many different ideas before turning one into a startup." Dan is a very proactive and successful enterpreneur who has a lot of interesting things to say, particularly for those interested in building their own small, agile startups.
September 22, 2008 at 2:23 pm
There're still more coming out. InfoQ releases them strategically. Mine will be posted within the next month I imagine.
September 22, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Reg's interview from RubyFringe has also been posted: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Rewrite-Reginald-Braithwaite
September 22, 2008 at 4:53 pm
All I know is that I cannot wait for Giles' to be posted. It's been too long!
September 22, 2008 at 5:35 pm
being from africa, the internet is not fast enough for streaming... is there any links for download?
September 23, 2008 at 1:08 am
Strategically slowly, that is. I was told months ago that my presentation was just about to be posted.
I don't know what is taking so long (though the interviewer from InfoQ told me he has to transcribe all the interviews by hand(!) -- meanwhile working full time as a developer).
September 23, 2008 at 3:39 am
Yikes! I've been using a fantastic transcriber. They really need a professional...the good ones have a special foot mouse and software to make it easier.
September 23, 2008 at 6:36 am
hmm... so I guess no direct download links...
September 23, 2008 at 7:57 pm
@Geoff: Cool; I want a special foot mouse.
September 24, 2008 at 3:11 am
Seems like there's another video up:
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Rewrite-Reginald-Braithwaite
;-)
September 24, 2008 at 10:24 pm
@Geoff: You should try Andy's trick for getting the Mechanical Turk to do it: waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/
October 7, 2008 at 5:50 pm
@Greg: Yeah, I read Andy's article but I think that's more work than it's worth. I found someone on oDesk who does a fantastic job and only costs a bit more than Mechanical Turk. Sometimes it can actually cost a lot to save that last buck or two.