I attended a brown-bag lunch session today, held in the office. Some folks who had attended the recent RailsConf shared information about the conference.
There is a lot changing in Rails, and from what I heard, it is for the better. The Rails maintainers have learned from the previous two releases and version 3.0 will have a number of significant improvements. The Rails team is not keeping backwards-compatibility, a move that I am sure caused much discussion on the team.
I was happy to attend the lunchtime session, and happy to see that the folks in the office care about new technologies and events outside of the office. It's a nice change from the UPS environment. At one time, folks at UPS did care about external events. The philosophy changed over the years, and UPS now looks inwards and thinks little of external happenings. It is an attitude that will cost them in the long run, as they fall behind in technology and they lose people to other companies. I hear reports that they already have a difficult time filling positions (contractor or employee) but I suspect that they are not too worried about such a problem.
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