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RailsConf, the largest gathering of Ruby and Rails developers in the world, is returning to Portland, OR! Join us from April 29th - May 2nd and connect with top Rails talent, companies, and project owners from around the world.

Austin, Texas April 23 - 25, 2012

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So what kinds of awesome talks have I attended so far?

• Keynote by DHH about not being scared of progress
• Steve Klabnik’s talk on Designing Hypermedia APIs
• Practical Machine Learning & Rails
• Ruby on Rails on YOUR ROOMBA!
• Scaling StillAlive from a RailsRumble project to 50,000+ users
• Building realtime web apps with streaming REST
• Keynote by Rich Hickey (developer of Clojure) on simplicity

It’s been fantastic RailsConf so far, and I’m looking forward to the rest of it.

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