ActsAsFlinn

I’m at the Voices That Matter conf in Boston. Met some old friends, met some new people. Some talks are interesting as my team is mostly operating in a vacuum rails-wise. Most of the team has experience working at larger companies but not in rails at a larger company. So it’s nice to hear what other larger companies are doing and how their rails team fits in to the business. The yellowpages.com talk was interesting to hear that most of their hits are static and not using ActiveRecord at all. I’m thinking that FanNation with it’s large amount of dynamic requests is got to be one of the larger rails installations. Also surprised to hear that NYT uses a handful of EC2 instances to do mostly page cached/generated pages. Again not much (if any) dynamic content generation.

At the end of the conference I won a prize (I think for talking a lot of shit on the irc back channel). I picked Obie’s book The Rails Way. The book is hugegantic weighing in at around 800 pages. So far I’ve skimmed the book and it looks promising. Lots of code examples, etc. I’ll do a full review once I get to read it.