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My spazzing paid off again, and my Ruby talk was very well received. Whew! It was, in essence, 5 minutes of introduction, and 70 minutes of typing at the keyboard. I demonstrated a bunch of the key concepts, and finished up showing one of the coolest pieces of Ruby: ActiveRecord. My talk was followed by one about Ruby on Rails, which is how most people will be approaching Ruby (to build web applications). That demo really showed the power of Ruby; he built a web site in a couple minutes, and started extending it quickly and easily. Adding AJAX support was simple, using the 1.9 release of Rails.

John and I took off at the half-way point. The truth was, we were both dead tired and wanted to get back to Seattle. After the 4-hour traffic snafu on the way down Friday, we weren't anxious for a repeat, and thought that leaving a few hours early would be beneficial (it was).

I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everybody who made Code Camp such a success. Of course, the organizers really kicked ass in putting it together in just about 2 months from idea to execution, but the most important part was getting a couple hundred people to show up. They really made it a success.

Looking forward to Seattle Code Camp! :)