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SXSW is perhaps the preeminent Web-related gathering of the year. I really don’t know how many past events have featured any Ruby content, though I’ll guess that it was only in passing. SXSW is a rather largish assembly, and the quality of the talks varies greatly. The real gold at any such event are those rare talks that give you concrete, tangible, working code. Even better is when you get it from a master of the craft.
The proposals for the 2008 edition of SXSW are now up for a public vote. Yes, that means YOU get to sway the future of Web and interactive development. And if you have any interest at all in Ruby, Java, JRuby, or game development, hustle over to David Koontz’ Railgun entry and vote at least once, and at least five stars.
Yes, Rising Tide’s very own Mr. Koontz will be spilling the beans and exposing the innards of what has to be the sweetest, most kick-ass development tool in quite some time. Railgun will make game development more fun than life-sized helium balloon animals. It’s not Rails; it’s Ruby and JRuby. It uses many of the better ideas that, while not original to Rails, have come to recent attention because of it. MVC, convention over configuration, useful defaults to avoid tedious boilerplate code, and more developer goodness.
Even if you don’t know if you’ll be attending, up-votes for Ruby talks (and, more broadly, technical talks over Yet More Pundit Anecdotes) can help promote higher quality presentations down the line. It’s possible that various topics never get proposed for SXSW because people feel it’s strictly for the CSS and Flash crowd. You can help change that.
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