So in a bit will be Matz’ keynote. I’m definitely looking forward to that. There was a QA session with him last nite but I can’t remember a damn thing about it.
John Long gave a talk yesterday about Radiant that re-invigorated my love for the CMS and made me realize just how far behind I’ve become. This deserves it’s own post, but quickly I’d started thinking about it as a blog engine, and it’s much more than that.
What else has stuck? Less than I’d like. Just now a good talk about Unicode, text, and the letter-number-letter problems (you know who you are). Luckily, I don’t have to rely on my non-memory for that, I’ve got the url to his slides and can get at least the gist there.
Ah, yes, Laurent Sansonetti on OS X and Ruby. This guy has the best job in the world: He’s Apple’s Ruby guy. Apparently the only one right now, but he hinted at that changing. Great demo on controlling iTunes through Ruby. Slightly less striking demo on writing Cocoa apps using Ruby. I’m sure the Cocoa stuff is actually more mind-blowing and important…but it didnt’ have the immediacy of the scripting. Plus, it would require an actual programmer to leverage (the real reason it didn’t get me hard).