Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Red Squirrel Reflections
Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development
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Sun, 25 Jun 2006Well, my talk is over and whoa, am I sleep-deprived! Why do I procrastinate like that? Well, mostly because I hate public speaking and I nearly always find ways of putting off preparing for stuff that I hate to do. The upside of my procrastination was that I had the flexibility to incorporate last-minute stuff into my talk. Which meant I got to demonstrate FireWatir on the Mac, along with plain old Watir on Windows via Parallels, and most importantly, Alex Chaffee was able to give a 15 minute experience report on his company's use of Selenium RC on Rails, which in a lot of ways stole the show. The audience I spoke to was very responsive and clearly wants to see progress in the acceptance testing space. I believe that with the rise of Ajax, browser-based-testing is an area that is ripe for a lot of movement in the next few years. It was an awesome, humbling experience to be a part of the stellar community of people that RailsConf drew together. Before I left early to get to my daughter's softball game, I got to hang with Obie and Aslak a bit, and listen to Gareth and Martin make some of the strangest sounds I've ever heard as they watched their football team beat Ecuador. All of the RailsConf keynotes were in the evening, which meant I missed most of them due to obligations on the homefront. It hurt to not be able to listen to Paul Graham, someone who continualy inspires me with his work. Thankfully, I did get to listen to Nathaniel Talbott talk about Homesteading, an excellent metaphor for the entrepreneurial programmer (which at this conference is a bit redundant). And I loved Nathaniel's use of scripture to supplement his talk. |
