existence, refactored

If you’ve been paying attention to the Orange and Bronze guy who talked about Spring Roo, you might have noticed that he mentioned something a bit weird. It was something along the lines of:

…and after that came Ruby on Rails. But Rails never really took off so Groovy and Grails came along and took the spotlight…

Now this statement about RoR is weird when taking into account the previous speakers, especially the G2iX / Exist guys who are successfully using that technology to develop web applications for their clients.

So why did the Spring Roo guy handwave RoR as just a fad?

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Last day of Y4iT. I didn’t want to see politicians so I spent the entire day in UP Film Institute.

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My sinuses acted up and gave me a headache for the entire day. This post may be crankier than the two previous ones.

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Body felt like crap and the rain was pouring hard so I decided to ditch the first few talks.

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Underwhelming day 1. My thoughts for each talk under the cut.

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Will spend the rest of the week in UP Diliman for Y4iT starting tomorrow. My planned schedule was posted here.

Will try to post short comments about the event either here or my Twitter account (I don’t want to pollute my Plurk with IT stuff ).

(Logo c/o Y4iT site)

Being unemployed, I finally have the chance to go to the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4iT) this year.

With the event less than two weeks away, I’ve decided to plan out what I’ll be doing in those four days. Given that the talks will be done simultaneously at the UP Theater and the UP Film Center, I have to decide which talks to attend.

My choices under the cut.

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