Ruby Conference 2006 – Day 3, Afternoon (Sunday, 22 October 2006)
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
Posted by austin in: Ruby, RubyConf, trackback
This afternoon we heard from Adam Keys with a one-act “play”, originally from the RejectConf evening. For your viewing pleasure, USSRuby: Star Trek meets Ruby. Funny as can be.
I gave a quick introduction to the Google Summer of Code process and what it did for Ruby. The introduction was an adaptation of the talk that I gave at LRUG in July. The numbers: 17 volunteers; 96 applications; 84 eligible; ~25 desired; 10 accepted; 7 or 8 completed (I know we had 8 at the beginning of July; I think one more dropped out in the interim).
Greg Brown presented about his experience of doing Ruport for the Summer of Code. He was mentored by David Pollak.
Jeff Hughes talked about porting Ruby to Symbian phones. He was mentored by Dibya Prikash.
Jason Morrison spoke on Ruby Type Inference & Code Completion for RDT. The approach he used was naïve, but based on DDP by Lex Spoon (S. Alexander Spoon), which is Demand-Driven Analysis with Goal Pruning. Type flow analysis; it unions types over contours. He was mentored by Chris Williams.
That ended RubyConf 2006. I’m looking forward to next year, and I’m campaigning very hard to have it in Toronto.
Comments
Funny USSRuby video! Thanks for posting it!