RailsConf - Day 2

So the brainstorming continued pretty late from day 1 and eventually I slept pretty late with the promise of waking up early in the morning. Today was the first day of our booth right! Also I along with Denis, George had to record screencasts of the respective things that we had worked on. We had a 5 minute limit and my first recording was a disaster. It was a full 12 minutes long :)

The 2nd recording was agonizingly close to completion but I ran out of a precious few seconds before I could complete it, very frustrating. Eventually on the 5th try I was able to record a decent screencast. George is going to upload it and when its done I will share the url so that you all can check it out and see what I have done :)

We had good attendance to our booth. People were a bit confused about what we do exactly with Postgres and the Oracle spin on it. Also some wanted to know what exactly was the key differentiator in our RubyES stack. We had some interesting conversations with a guy from the Heroku booth who was using Postgres. In general there seemed to be a lot of curiosity and intent to use Postgres with rails app, which is definitely a good thing!

In the evening a company called as FiveRuns hosted HAPPY HOUR at a local pub, it was pretty crowded when we reached there, so we went to another place closeby. I kinda like the American food that I am getting to eat. Am also enjoying the different kinds of drinks too ;). Well they say, in America do as the Americans do! :)

We rounded up the day by dropping Marie off to the airport. She left ahead of us to go back to NJ. Had had very less sleep the last few days, so I snucked into bed at 9:45PM and got up at 6:15 am today morning. On to the oncoming day now :)