Rails Underground

"When is the next Rails Underground?"

I've had such a good response from the first Rails Underground, and I've been getting a lot of questions about when the next one is going to be.

It would be great to do it all again, but I've not made a lot of progress on this so far: This is all something I'm doing in my spare time, and at the moment I just don't have any. My father has not been well, and my plans for this summer involve looking after him, and not much else.

I'm very keen on running another conference as soon as I have the chance; things will just be going a little slower than planned. When I have more news, I'll post it here - and rest assured: they'll be plenty of notice before the next conference for those people who are planning trips.

Videos!

Well, gosh - the remaining Rails Underground videos are now available on the SkillsMatter site!

This includes:

Robby Russell - Launching Ruby on Rails Projects

Dr Nic - JavaScript Unit Tests

Geoffrey Grosenbach - Bringing the Web to Your Desktop with MacRuby

Clemens Kofler - Rails I18n From The Trenches 

Brendan G Lim - Mobilize Your Rails Application

Eleanor McHugh - The Ruby Guide to *nix Plumbing

Lindsay Holmwood - Behaviour driven monitoring with cucumber-nagios

The full list is here. Thanks everyone for being so patient - I know its been a long wait.

Where are the remaining videos?

..good question! Hopefully, they will be available soon. I know that one of the SkillsMatter recording guys has been on his honeymoon, which probably delayed things a bit (but congratulations!)

I'm taking care of my father for a few weeks, and he is meditating in a monestary somewhere in the Italian countryside, with no transport, internet or phone, and hence so am I!

I've managed to get this message out, though, so there is hope! I'll chase up on the videos, but you may see the results before I do...

Notes

I'm still wrapping a few things up, so theres a bit more to come, but in the mean time here are a few quick notes to pass on:

Today is the last day for a 35% discount at www.manning.com. Just use the discount code railsund35

If you get in touch with Obie, you can also get a great discount on tickets to BizConf!

Many on the videos are already available - many thanks to the Skills Matter podcasters for doing this so quickly! I'm updating the schedule page with links to the slides, videos and SpeakerRate for each talk.

If you haven't done so, please fill in the conference survey and tell us what you thought!

Vladimir Tarasov

Vlad Tarasov has today had some serious health issues, and, of course, can no longer attend. We send him and his family our best wishes, and hope for a speedy recovery.

Workshop Info

I've posted a bit more information about the BDD/Cucumber Workshop, and how to find us and register.