EuRuKo 2011
Posted by Huy Dinh
Jun 1
So, this year's EuRuKo is over and next year's EuRuKo will be in Amsterdam. I guess that means I will have to camp them tickets even harder...
Party! Not...
Unfortunately, I did not have time for either of the three "parties" at c-base, Tante Käthe and somewhere else each. For that I blame... "someone". ;-D
From what I've heard, however, getting to Tante Käthe was more difficult than the organizers have hoped it'd be. Not only was it pretty far from the conference site, but it was very well hidden, too. Getting there in the dark did not help much either. I hope Amsterdam will feature some more easily reached party site.
Next year, if I am going to be in Amsterdam, I will have to make up for this year. Promise.
Talks
Most insightful to me were both Paolo Perrotta's talk about method_missing() and Jose Valim's talk about writing programming languages. Please don't get me wrong, I don't mean to say all other talks were not interesting. For example, Mateusz Drozdzynski's talk about sentiment analysis was great, as well, but not inducing a WHOA! as strongly as Paolo or Jose did to me, though.
While Paolo's talk probably benefitted a lot from Paolo's really strong performance on stage (not saying there was any lack of content!), Jose introduced me to a topic I haven't ever really got in touch with before. Plus his ideas were rather interesting, as well.
Some other talks however were... not that good. Some were just poorly presented and some had a severe lack of relevant content. But that's to be expected of conferences.
Ruby, Ruby, Ruby!
This. 'nuff said.
