If you are real Ruby follower you surely know about RubyConf2008 conference that was held in November 2008, or perhaps you even participated. If you still miss all the fun you can go thru whole list of videos from that conference on [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/].
Or at least you can watch videos I’ve selected for busiest men:
name: Reasons behind Ruby
duration: 31 minutes
description: introductory speech from Yukihiro Matsumoto, father of Ruby where he speaks about Ruby, its future, and community in general without any technical stuff.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/matzs-keynote.html]
name: Fork Ruby
duration: 48 minutes
description: speech from Dave Thomas that helped write Agile Manifesto, and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide. He share thoughts about possible ideas for Ruby language and its development.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/keynote.html]
name: Ruby 1.9: What to Expect
duration: 50 minutes
description: Dave Thomas and David Black author of popular book Ruby for Rails, Ruby core contributor and the creator and maintainer of RCRchive show to us differences between Rubys with 2 irb windows step by step.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/ruby-19-what-to-expect.html]
name: Recovering from Enterprise
duration: 45 minutes
description: Comparison between Ruby and Java worlds from Ruby, and Ruby on Rails contributer Jamis Buck. He describe fundamental differences between Java and Ruby and his mistakes, and ways to avoid them. Also provide ideas how to write in real Ruby and not in Java with Ruby syntax.
URL: [http://rubyconf2008.confreaks.com/recovering-from-enterprise.html]
Next conference will be held on 13-14 March of 2009 in Salt Lake City.
See details on official site: [http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/]