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I was originally intending to attend the just completed Railsconf Europe, but there was just a little (ok, a lot) too much work happening to let me slip out of the country for a few weeks. There will be more conferences in the future when I will be able to make it, although I hope I don’t have to wait another year before the next European one. Visiting the US involves a few too many flying hours for my liking, especially to a location like Portland. Anyway, we’ll see.

So I’ve been reading about the interesting talks at Railsconf Europe. The slides for all of the presentations are here. And a Google Blog search will turn up a lot of opinion and summaries of the various presentations. The most interesting summary I found was this one of DHH’s keynote address.

Very interesting is Sun’s serious support for Rails, and to hear the creator of Struts and JSF (and Sun employee), Craig McClanahan, saying that after using Rails for web application development, working with Java feels unpleasant. With Sun and JRuby I think Ruby and Rails is most certainly headed for the enterprise, which is great news for all Rails developers. It makes our selling job easier and provides us with more opportunities.