http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/tag/railsconf2007 en-us 40 thoughts.sort_by{|t| t[:topic]}.collect <p>Yay! It&#8217;s almost conference time&#8230; and I&#8217;m almost completely thrilled!</p> <p>Why am I not more thrilled? Well, mainly because RailsConf is being hosted here in Portland, which means that I don&#8217;t get to travel by train like we did last year via <a href="http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2006/06/27/the-argon-express">The Argon Express</a>. (ah&#8230; the memories)</p> <p>One perk of being here already&#8230; is that I get to act as a tour guide to visitors. For example, earlier today&#8230; <a href="http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/">Josh Susser</a> (hasmanyjosh) joined <a href="http://blog.imperialdune.com">Graeme</a> and I for lunch in downtown Portland, OR. It was exciting to hear about how he and <a href="http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2007/4/10/who-are-these-guys">his fellow Rubyists</a> at <a href="http://www.powerset.com/">Powerset</a> are using Ruby and Rails for various projects. John also spent a few minutes introducing us to <a href="http://merb.rubyforge.org/">Merb</a>, which some people think will become popular in near future. We&#8217;re expecting more visitors to come by the offices over the next few days.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/robbyrussell/501303710/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/203/501303710_c2b7badeec.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Josh Susser and Graeme Nelson" /></a></p> <p>If you&#8217;re in Portland already (Wednesday)... you might head over to the Lucky Lab for a game of <a href="http://portlandwerewolf.com/">Werewolf</a>, which I believe <a href="http://michaelbuffington.com/">Michael Buffington</a> is organizing the event. I&#8217;m going to try to make it&#8230; maybe I&#8217;ll see you there!</p> <h2>Flickr Group</h2> <p>I created a flickr group named <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/railsconf2007/pool/">RailsConf 2007</a>, and started to use the tag <strong>railsconf2007</strong> for flickr photos. I look forward to seeing all your photos from the event!</p> <h2><span class="caps">IRC</span> Channel</h2> <p>As of this afternoon, there are almost 20 people hanging out in <code>#railsconf</code> on freenode. Stop by and introduce yourself!</p> <h2>Portland Revealed</h2> <p>If you haven&#8217;t already <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/planetargon">subscribed to our feed</a>, you might have missed that the <span class="caps">PLANET ARGON</span> team has been posting <a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/portland-revealed">several articles</a> about things to do, see, and drink in Portland during your visit to <a href="http://www.railsconf.org">RailsConf</a>. Here are a few that we&#8217;ve posted so far.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/2007/5/10/portland-revealed-episode-2-beertown">Portland Revealed: Episode 2: Beertown</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/2007/5/11/portland-revealed-episode-3-get-outdoors">Portland Revealed: Episode 3: Get outdoors</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/2007/5/16/portland-revealed-episode-4-stay-awake-during-railsconf">Portland Revealed: Episode 4: Stay Awake During RailsConf</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.planetargon.com/2007/5/16/portland-revealed-episode-5-places-to-work">Portland Revealed: Episode 5: Places to Work</a></li> <li>More coming soon!</li> </ul> <p>You can also peak around <a href="http://goseeoregon.com/place/36913-Portland">GoSeeOregon</a> (a Rails application!) to find places around town to go see.</p> Wed, 16 May 2007 17:21:00 -0500 urn:uuid:e1585866-bb5d-4c99-a689-8810eaed92df Robby Russell http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2007/05/16/heading-to-portland-for-railsconf-by-foot Ruby on Rails PLANET ARGON railsconf railsconf 2007 portland hasmanyjosh graeme planetargon