Ryan Kanno: The diary of an Enginerd in Hawaii

Morning Tutorial

Learning Ruby with Mike Fitzgerald

Even though Mike is a renowned author in the technical community, I was not at all impressed with his presentation. Don’t get me wrong - the presentation went exactly as how it was described in the program guide. My issue was the fact that the tutorial seemed overly simplified considering the background of the typical conference attendee. I really was hoping to learn something I couldn’t find in one of his books.

Overall grade: C

Afternoon Tutorial

Django Master Class with Simon Willison, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, and Jeremy Dunck

Working on a personal project (soon to be released in the wild) in Django, I had looked forward to this tutorial for several months. I had really high expectations for this tutorial - and the Django team did not disappoint. Some of the topics they covered included signals, template tag patterns, OpenID integration, and scalability. Though I’ve done work on all of the above, it was still interesting actually matching faces to names. Not to mention, many of the attendees scored a free Django shirt and a few buttons.

Overall grade: A

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