Pictures from the second day of Ruby Fools Conference

Evan Phoenix:

Matz:

Dr. Nic

Best Quotes from the final panel

So much has happened today that I did not have much time to blog, but there is so much good stuff from the final panel, so I will write about some quotes:

Aslak Hellesøy said: Going from Java to Ruby is like take a straitjacket off and now you could fly.
We also got the story about why Ruby is called Ruby and why Rubinius is called Rubinius.

There is a very simple reason for Ruby; Ruby is influenced by Perl and because Perl is like Pearl, Matz was running through names of gems and looking for the shortest one. That was Ruby.

Rubinius is originally Rubinus as Ruby in latin but Rubinus was not an easy spoken word so Evan Phoenix was looking for something better – a friend suggested Rubinius and because it sounded like a wizard name, Evan liked it.

Pictures from this morning

Dave and Matz at registration this morning:

The view of the hall at registration:

The audience at Daves keynote:

Dave Thomas at the keynote – in love with Ruby!

Hello Ruby Fools!

Hi, my name is Therese Hansen and on this blog I will report directly from the Ruby Fools conference in Copenhagen. Right now I am listening to Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas saying that he is a Ruby Fool and explaining why.

Dave is in love with Ruby! But why? Dave tries to explain, but also say that love is irrational and not to be explained. That Ruby is expressive, multi-paradigm and productive is just some of the reasons.

I think that what Dave is saying about being in love with your language and software tools is very true and a lesson that we all have to learn. You have to be in love with what you do every day or you should change what you do – don’t you think?