David about Rails 2.0


The DHH keynote this year was really good for a few reasons. First of all, David was very quick in saying that Rails 2.0 will not be anything radical, nothing really new, just better. Also, he actually announced that he had changed his mind about HTTP authentication, and performance (and this is kinda amazing of him to say… =). But all in all, it was a good talk about what’s coming next; an evolution of the current things, but still the same Rails, just with more REST support and other goodies.



JRuby RC2


The day before RailsConf started, me, Charles and Tom sat in the lobby of the Courtyard, coding away, fixing problems and pushing out something like 5 versions of 1.0RC2. But the final RC2 is really, really good. You should download it, test it, and if you’re at RailsConf, report any bugs you find and get a cool t-shirt! JRuby is really making a huge buzz at RailsConf right now, and it’s sort of overwhelming! I’m very happy about it, of course, and there is still some nice things happening. Yesterday, we got a small bug in truncating files fixed, which means exclusive file locking works now.

1.0 is looking really, really good. It should be out by the end of May, and it’s going to be a smash.



RSpec 1.0


Yesterday, the RSpec team pushed out version 1.0 which I’m personally very happy to hear. RSpec is a really important project and we are seriously considering including RSpec in the base JRuby distribution. Congratulations on the 1.0 release!



Congrats to Ward Cunningham


I met Ward Cunningham for the first time this Thursday, but I’ve always been very impressed by the things he has done. And yesterday he got a new job at AboutUs, a wiki company founded in 2005, as CTO. Congratulations!



San Francisco and Portland


Tomorrow morning I’ll leave Stockholm for San Francisco. I’ll be arriving 5:ish PM at SFO and will stay at the Handlery Union Square Hotel. I will not present at either JavaOne or RailsConf, though, so I will have a fair amount of time for fun stuff. I will attend the RedMonk unconference at CommunityOne, participate in the DynLang event, and then attend regular JavaOne. If you see me (I’ll be wearing my black hat…), please say hi!

Next Saturday me and my coworkers will move out of SF and take a car to Portland, where we plan to arrive on the following Tuesday or Wednesday, just in time for RailsConf. We leave from Portland early Monday after the conference.

Hope to see many of you there! It will be exciting, that’s for sure. I will also try to report as much as possible from all events.



RailsConf galore


So, it’s decided. Me and two colleagues from Karolinska Institutet will attend RailsConf in Portland, OR. I’m looking very much forward to it, especially since we are also going to JavaOne, and we plan to drive from San Francisco to Portland.

Hopefully I’ll get to meet many of the people on the Ruby scene that I’ve only had mail contact with until now. See you there!