I put my InfoTec 2007 presentations online last night. If you don’t want to hear about how much fun I had giving them, here is the link.
My first talk was a 4 hour “Introduction to Ruby on Rails”. It had a decent turnout, and was a lot of fun to give. Thanks to a IM chat with Harish the night before the talk, I gave the best line I’ve given so far in a talk (IMHO): “So, what type of web application would you like to build today?”
My second talk was “Agile Java Web Frameworks”. There were twice as many people in this talk that had signed up before the conference started, though slightly fewer than in my rails talk. A slightly disjointed talk, I hit upon some of the more interesting web frameworks in the java world: Struts2, Spring MVC/WebFlow, Click, Rife, and then the dynamic contenders: Grails, Rails, and Lift.
Click was an interesting experience, as I had only learned about it the night before from Stephen Haberman. It looks pretty promising.
We only had enough time to quickly dive into one of the frameworks, and the audience chose Grails. So we delved into the bowels of GroovyQuiz and I showed them how it works.
Overall I had a lot of fun, and am looking forward to next years InfoTec.
Harish Keshwani | 20-Apr-07 at 3:39 pm | Permalink
Matt, you had to come up with that great line as you were in “great company” :-). Jokes apart, “Ruby on Rails” was a great presentation. It gave me enough courage to come home and install Ruby on Rails on my laptop. Great work!