Below are the slides and all the nice things people said about the talk, which has made me feel very good for sharing, and for the 60hr return flight from Brisbane to Toronto.

If you want to hear the jokes, and an Australian “mistaking” Canada for a state of America, perhaps wait for InfoQ to publish the video.

The slides

Nice things people said

Thanks to…

Elle Meredith who helped me design and theme the slides so they looked spot-on-awesome.

My two children for not being old enough to be disturbed by some of the things I said about them during the talk.

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Over the last month, Ryan mentioned “functional testing by a matrix” in four great blog articles.

Ryan shows this off at RejectConf; its 16 minutes but definitely worth your time to investigate, as I think this will be awesome for ensuring basic edge cases are thoroughly tested. Can a guest create something? Can a member delete something?

It is hard to see the code on the screen, but look at the blog posts linked above to get the gist of what is being shown.

People were really interested this as you can tell by the huge number of questions, despite this being the last of many many presentations.

This stuff looks primed for a sweet generator to create the test file.

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To me, running Ruby on Java made as much sense as running Java on a JVM on top of another JVM. Virtual machine on a virtual machine… surely that’s already one virtual machine too many?

Then he said something that no Rails person had said before:

You JAR up your rails app, upload it to TomCat and your Rails app is deployed. It just works.

“Upload it … and it just works” – I still don’t think I’ve heard of a technical solution for deploying Rails apps that’s been bold enough to claim this.

Below is the 30 minute presentation by Ola from the other night where he goes into the details, plus more on the status of JRuby, its performance compared to Ruby, and its future.

Summary: there’s a whole lot of wonderful energy within the JRuby Core camp.

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I’ll write a separate post on Ola’s presentation shortly. It was awesome and I videoed it. Hehehe.

But first and foremost, lets talk about me. Or rather, let’s talk about my talk, which was also videoed.

Meta-magic in Ruby
- Weaponry.pdf

Meta-magic in a programming language is as important to programmers as changeable ring tones are to teenagers. Authors of programming languages cannot provide every feature to everyone, so it is so wonderful to be able to add new language features and extensions that you want. Everyone knows you can add Jessica Simpson as your mobile ring tone, but not all programmers know that you can add new features to their programming world.

So here is an overview to a new world of happiness. It also overviews how the Magic Models work, and introduces a new gem I’m working on – the Magic Wiggly Lines – described as “genius or insane”

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