Posted by Rick DeNatale
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:25:00 GMT
Besides being a master werewolf, Marcel Molina Jr. gives great presentations!
In his keynote presentation on the second day of the Ruby Hoedown, Marcel talked about
“What Makes Code Beautiful”,
click on the link for the confreaks video of this session.
The talk started with an exploration of the classical Philosophy of Beauty, from Plato to Descartes.
Marcel summarized this by proposing that beauty lies in the balance between three aspects which,
at times, either strengthen or oppose each other:
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Posted by Rick DeNatale
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:13:00 GMT
I notice that master werewolves
Coby Randquist and Carl Youngblood
have gotten all of the
videos from the
inaugural Ruby Hoedown (at least
in rough cut form) on their confreaks website.
I’m stoked about this, and the site in general.
Like the way infoq web publishes presentations, confreaks
shows synchronized live action video and the “slides”, however I like the confreaks site better.
- The “slides” are directly captured as video from the presenters laptop. The big plus here is that
live demos are also there.
- The presentation is “widescreen” with the two components laid out side by side, which I think
works better.
As for content, there was lots of good stuff at the hoedown which is now available for viewing on-line. Check it out.
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Posted by Rick DeNatale
Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:03:00 GMT
The first Ruby Hoedown, sponsored by the Raleigh Ruby brigade, has finally come and gone. I had a great two days, saw some old friends, and made lots of new ones.
Here are my initial thoughts after more than a bit too litle sleep after a night trying to root out werewolves.
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