I had an emotional trip to England back in September. I was reunited with family I hadn't seen for quarter of a century. It was the fifth anniversary of 9/11. I was due to give a keynote at the European Rails Conference, and I wasn't sure what I was going to say.
Somehow all these things came together at just the right time. The keynote is now online (44 mins). In it, I talk about terrorism, risk, fear, Ruby, Rails, and hope. I think it's one of my better talks. Enjoy.
Wonderful ! This is a must hear Keynote. Thanks Dave :)
Posted by: dylans | January 31, 2007 at 04:52 AM
Thanks Dave, I'll go watch this now.
FYI, although I like how this theme looks *a lot*, in my browser (Firefox 2.0, on Ubuntu) it is very slow indeed. I'm trying to go through the katas, and scrolling is so painful.
Posted by: dan | January 31, 2007 at 10:11 AM
I really enjoyed listening to this and also hearing you give this live at RailsEdge a few days back. It's a great talk and I wholeheartedly agree!
Posted by: Damon Clinkscales | February 01, 2007 at 05:32 PM
Great talk. Your closing was particularly inspirational. I recently left a well paying corporate gig to go independent. I struggle with my doubts about whether I've done the right thing. In my heart, I know I have, but I must fight the FUD demons every day.
Looking forward to RailsEdge when it comes to the NW.
Posted by: Victor | February 04, 2007 at 05:16 PM
I don't buy your "Joe, you left your door open," analogy.
See, the true "internet" version of that would be:
Dave: Joe, you left your door open.
Bob: BTW, everybody, Joe lives at 1523 Juniper Street, Merrieta, CA.
Fred: Hey! I just found out Joe has $20,000 worth of stereo equipment in his basement!
Cynthia: [url=...]Here[/url]'s a link to it on Google Maps.
Steve: Oh, and if Joe ever does lock his door, there's a key under the ceramic frog on his porch. You can use it to enter the basement directly, if Joe's upstairs.
And that's what _did_ happen. The instant that announcement hit, people (myself included) were scanning the svn repository for the security-relevant change in 1.1.5. When I found that the fix introduced a new vulnerability, I was nice enough to mention it off-line. Others weren't.
So there was a disconnect, between the people who read weblog.rubyonrails.org and felt everything was peachy, and that the Core Team were the only folks who knew the vulnerability, and the people who lurked on rails-talk, and then went poking and prodding at live Rails apps for fun.
Otherwise, I'm enjoying the talk. Haven't finished yet.. had to pause to post this rant. :)
Posted by: twifkak | February 10, 2007 at 12:20 AM