OSCON Day 2
Day two was another day of longer half day tutorials. I started with my day with Embracing and extending RT and Creating Passionate Users.
The talk on RT was pretty cool and I learned a lot about RT and its internals. The two people giving the talk where Jesse Vincent and Robert Spier. Jesse is the creator of RT and started with some questions for the group about how we used RT and what versions we used. Robert is a major code contributor and works with Jesse on giving the presentation. The both got into their grove pouring over 200+ slides. I love it when I learn how to easily do something I have wondering to do for ages. I had no idea it could be so easy to tweak RT. I can hardly wait till I get some time to start hacking some more at RT.
Creating Passionate Users was presented by author Kathy Sierra. She started out with a funny into that she wrote and gave to someone else to read. It started thing out on a light node and made finding out who she was fun. This session was one where she gave the room little tasks to get us talking and thinking with one another. The whole topic could be summed up in how to market something. We talked about everything from USB thumb drives to network security. It was an interesting talk and I hope to get some more details about what she said soon.