I was in Portland last week for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. It was a great time, as was the larger, 1+ week, vacation for myself and MB that wrapped around the convention (more on that in a different post).

I mostly concentrated on the ruby track, since I paid the entry fee myself, and by God, I'm gonna get as much ruby as possible! One more thing on ruby before I shut up about it - it definitely had the buzz at OSCON. No doubt about it. Much of it was fueled by Ruby on Rails, which is a shame (no reflection on Rails, per se). Ruby is good enough that it should be able to stand on its own, and Rails is just another good thing about it.

Anyway, I've posted some photos from the convention on flickr.com (at the moment you can see a random photo directly on my flickr sidebar).