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Conference Summary Video

Wow, what a great conference! There was a lot of energy flowing at RailsConf this year. Overall I’d rate this year as head and shoulders above last year. I’m not going cover much here, but will direct you attention to a Rails Envy VideoCase that Greg Pollack put together. The video is a series of very short interviews with a number of presenters giving summaries of their own talks. The only downside with the video is that I wish it was available before the conference. I see there were a number of interesting talks that I missed.

Followup on the “Modelling Dialogue”

Joe O’Brien, Chris Nelson and myself did a dialogue style presentation on the difference between object modelling and data modelling. The most common question I got after the talk was requests for book titles to learn more about object oriented modelling. Here are the books that Joe, Chris and I have recommended:

• Domain Driven Design—Eric Evans
• AgileSoftware Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices—Bob Martin
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code—Martin Fowler