Nobody Listens Anyway

Ferret is fast. He has moved around and the documentation is a bit sparse.
Solr was created by people at CNET, used by Internet Archive, Krugle, Revolution Health, his projects: Collext, Blacklight.
Findability - serendipity is great. You should be able to browse and discover stuff you didn’t intend to.
Read Ambient Findability
Lucene is fast and [...]

Don’t forget to look at The Rails Way blog.
Move logic into your model. This lets you break functionality into more granular components and makes testing easier. Keep your controllers skinny. Jamis blogged about this principle here.
Use before filters to setup state before your controller runs. Use before_create in your models.
ActiveSupport helps [...]

Practical Design for Developers David Verba
Another standing room only session. Perhaps the organizers will wise up and have at least on larger room next year for the sessions that are very popular.
We are going over the basics of audience analysis – understand your users:
Context
Motivations
Challenges
Know your stakeholders – anyone that has an interest [...]

Saleh is talking about using a Daemon to get rails to talk to LDAP. The code for the LDAP deamon and the code to make it look like a model live here. I will add a bit of code here and there, but hopefully the presenter will upload the slides so I [...]

I have eaten a lot of bad food over the past few days which is too bad given that Portland has good restaurants. The main source of bad food is the Rails conference.
A WORD TO CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Stale pastry and coffee do not count as breakfast.
Lunch is not much better.
It is so bad that we [...]

After the Two Revolutions session I had a few minutes to talk to DHH. First I must say he is just a very nice guy. Programmer envy over. I had a discussion about OpenID. It is going to be a critical component of the next rev of our apps. OpenID [...]

This session is totally packed. We managed to sneak in. The door guys don’t like that much. If there is a fire we will all die.
Adam Keys is funny and entertaining
“If you want to learn from the masters you have to read their code.”
Read code because “you’re surrounded by idiots.”
When you read Rails [...]

I tried to get into the REST talk but it is so full that they have guys guarding the doors to keep people out. I am instead sitting in an extreme programming session. I wouldn’t have come in here except I noticed that DHH walked in. I figure if he sees potential [...]

Sitting in the community app presentation right now. I was torn between this and the clean code presentation, but since we are building community apps this presentation seemed to be the most appropriate.
Here’s the first slide:
Fast prototyping
Prototype becomes product
Help Developers and Designers work together.
I am hoping it gets better and that the intro is [...]

Listening to DHH right now. Play DHH buzzword bingo here. http://bingdoh.com/games/dhh-keynote He started out talking about the growth of the community and making fun of a job post requesting a Rails programmer with at least 3 years of Rails experience. (That is longer than he has been on Rails and he invented it.) [...]