This Friday and Saturday. $125. Awesome speaker line-up. Breakfast and lunch included. Saturday after-party with Hashrocket. Florida in February. Don’t miss it. Tickets are almost gone.

Acts as Conference is one exciting week away. Tickets have been selling well and are now in limited supply, so if you haven’t registered then what are you waiting for? Be the first to hear from David and Yehuda about Rails 3.0, and ask David a question on Friday morning. We have an awesome lineup of speakers who will help strengthen your Rails-fu, breakfast and lunch both days, and awesome networking opportunities, all for $125. I’ll see you all here in Orlando next Friday. Until then, keep talking it up and help us promote it.

Great thanks goes out to all of sponsors, especially our Platinum sponsors –  Engine Yard, New Relic, AT&T Interactive –  for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

If you’ve registered for Acts as Conference 2009 then you’ve been invited to begin connecting with fellow attendees on the Acts as Conference Online Community. The site, provided by EventVue, helps you learn more about and connect with your fellow registrants, as well as our speakers and sponsors.

Once my account was created, the site automatically found my website, blog, LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, as well as my Twitter address. This helped me to complete my profile in mere minutes, since I didn’t have to enter everything in myself. Once I added tags, I was able to see who else shared those tags. One thing I really liked is that the site didn’t try to match me up with folks who shared my tags. This is a good since I know probably every Rails developer here in Orlando. Another cool thing was that company names also get turned into tags of sorts, so you can see who is coming from what company. You can also see other stats including the most popular tags and most represented cities. It’s great to see so many people coming from outside of Florida. Want to contact someone but don’t know their email? All is well. Simply send them a message.

Since the site has everyone’s Twitter and blog, you’ll see who is saying what on the Chatter tab. Also, if you tag your Flickr pics or YouTube videos with aac09, they’ll show up on the site as well. Very cool.

If you aren’t on the conference site I encourage you to log in and complete your profile. Once of the biggest benefits of going to conferences, along with learning, is networking. The AAC 2009 Online Community will help you get going.

If you have registered and haven’t gotten your invite, leave a comment here and we’ll make sure you get hooked up.

Great thanks goes out to all of sponsors, especially our Platinum sponsors –  Engine Yard, New Relic, AT&T Interactive –  for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

 

We’re happy to have AT&T Interactive as our newest Platinum sponsor. AT&T Interactive  is the team behind yellowpages.com, which got much press as one of the larger site using Ruby on Rails. When it comes to scaling, these folks are some of the best to speak with.

BrowserMedia joins our sponsor ranks as a Gold sponsor. BrowserMedia is an award-winning interactive agency, serving more than 200 associations and commercial organizations worldwide. They’re the team behing BrowserCMS, an open source Rails CMS (previously proprietary J2EE) which Paul Barry and Patrick Peak will be talking about at AAC 2009.

 

Great thanks goes out to all of sponsors, especially our Platinum sponsors –  Engine Yard, New Relic, AT&T Interactive –  for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

We are happy to announce that Manning Publications is the newest sponsor of Acts as Conference. Manning has generously donated 4 copies of JQuery in Action, 10 vouchers for the Merb in Action PDF, and is offering all AAC attendees 40% off of the price of Merb in Action. To get the goodies you have to attend, so register today for Acts as Conference 2009.

Register today for Acts as Conference 2009. $125 gets you two full days of awesome speakers including David Heinemeier Hansson and Yehuda Katz, food, prizes, and great networking. We’ll see you in February.

Great thanks goes out to our Platinum sponsors Engine Yard and New Relic for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

Corey Haines is a software journeyman. He travels from place to place pair-programming in exchange for room and board, interviewing developers on how they got started in programming, and contributing to open source projects. Anthony Eden from chi.mp has invited Corey to come to Central Florida, and we’ve happily donated a ticket to Acts as Conference 2009. Corey is looking for people to interview for his “How I Got Started In Programming” series while at AAC. He’ll be posting to the message board at the conference, so be sure to find him.

Register today for Acts as Conference 2009. $125 gets you two full days of awesome speakers including David Heinemeier Hansson and Yehuda Katz, food, prizes, and great networking. We’ll see you in February.

Great thanks goes out to our Platinum sponsors Engine Yard and New Relic for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

Acts as Conference speakers Patrick Peak and Paul Barry will be discussing how BrowserMedia transitioned the 3.0 version of BrowerCMS from a proprietary J2EE application to  an open source Ruby on Rails application. In their talk, Patrick and Paul will cover the business and technical motivations for this change, share experiences from the process of moving from J2EE to Rails and show how you can use BrowserCMS in your next Rails app to provide content management capabilities to your administrative users. If your clients are looking for a CMS, or your company is interested in transitioning from J2EE to Rails, and gaining all of the benefits, Patrick and Paul are a must see.

Register today for Acts as Conference 2009. $125 gets you in on two days of awesome speakers, free food, and networking with Rails luminaries.

A big thanks goes out to our Platinum sponsors Engine Yard and New Relic, for helping to make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

Remember that little phishing issue that Twitter experienced last week? Well, since then, there’s been a lot of talk about using OAuth to allow application access rather than usernames and passwords. Bloggers including Louis Gray and Don Park have suggested that Twitter implement OAuth, and there’s been more discussions on Chris Messina’s blog as well.

Well, if you’re wondering what OAuth is, how it will work for you, and how to implement it into a Rails application, register for Acts as Conference 2009 and listen to Tim Rosenblatt tell you all about it with: OAuth and APIs: Sharing your data without leaving your zipper down.

Tim is the Agile Development Director at Cloudspace, an Orlando-based web apps shop. He’s been coding for nearly a decade, but unless you’re *really* into Firefox Extensions or Twitter, you’ve probably never heard of him. When he’s not writing code for fun and profit, he spends time with his wonderful girlfriend, and aspires to awesomeness on the drums.

Tim is part of the awesome lineup you can see at Acts as Conference 2009, February 6th and 7th, in Orlando, Florida. $125 gets you in to food, fun, networking and learning. We’ll see you there.

A big thanks to our platinum sponsors Engine Yard and New Relic for helping make Acts as Conference 2009 possible.

Gregg Pollack, part of the dynamic duo know as Rails Envy, and now an official Rails Activist, will be speaking with Jason Seifer at Acts as Conference 2009. Gregg and Jason will be talking about Innovation in Rails. In a talk that’s sure to entertain, Gregg and Jason will attempt to sum up a year of Rails innovation in 60 minutes, covering 20 of the most useful, ingenious, and innovative new developments. Come and see Gregg and Jason at Acts as Conference 2009.

Acts as Conference 2009 is just around the corner, and things are heating up. I am sure that everyone has heard that Rails and Merb are coming together for Rails 3. We’re lucky to have the two guys as speakers who can tell you all about it – David Heinemeier Hansson, and Yehuda Katz. David will be answering your questions live via video for an entire hour on day one, and Yehuda will be speaking about Merb, and hanging out after that. This is your chance to ask these guys your questions. You won’t want to miss it.

If you’ve already registered, help us promote AAC 2009 with a badge on your site. If you haven’t registered, register today. With all the buzz around Rails 3, and the chance to ask David and Yehuda questions in person, we are sure to sell out again.

See you in February.

A big thanks to our platinum sponsors Engine  Yard and New Relic for helping make this year’s Acts as Conference a big success.