As I’ve mentioned before on this site, I was honored to be selected to present at Ostrava on Rails last weekend in the Czech Republic. I say honored because all the speakers were great and included two members of the core team: Jamis Buck and Tobias Lutke.
My talk was on how to create an application with Ruby on Rails that talks to mobile phones via MMS and SMS (if you’ve seen my posts on e-mail processing and MMS2R, these were trial runs for my presentation).
You can download my slides (PDF) qnd there are lots of pictures on Flickr with the tag ostrava on rails. Robert Cigán also has some blog entries about the conference. All-in-all, I thought the conference went off very well. The organizers are trying to start a Ruby/Ruby on Rails network in the Czech Republic (this concept apparently not being well established there) so I shared some experiences about RUM and how it has helped our community in Minnesota. Also, meeting and hanging out with the other speakers and attendees was quite fun. I would write more but I am in an internet café in France and the keyboard is driving me to distraction, so I must be brief.
