RubyConf Video is Posted

Looks my the video for my RubyConf presentation, Essential Incompleteness in Program Modeling (which I subtitled How to apply hand-wavy math to software design), has finally been posted. The slides are also available in PDF.

It's a strange talk, that's for sure. For one, it doesn't really have any code in it. And when I say "not really", I mean "none". I only even mention Ruby when talking about Puppet. For two, I kinda submitted the talk on a lark -- my Ruby submissions seem to be largely uninteresting to the Ruby community, so I figured I'd submit this as practice but that it would be denied. When it was actually accepted, I had to go write the darn thing. Third, I did relatively poorly in the presentation. I think the content was actually pretty good, but I did a poor job of organizing the slides and of presenting it. That isn't to say I think it's a bad presentation, just that it could have been much better.

It'd be interesting to be given the opportunity to give the talk in a different environment, somewhere I was just thinking about the talk and not worrying about its appropriateness.

Either way, the talk was an earnest attempt at providing what I think is a cool and useful way at looking at software design, and it's worth a look.

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 | Tags: conference, ruby, rubyconf, rubyconf2007, presentation

RubyConf Slides

Jim Meyer is collecting slides from RubyConf, so I've posted my slides for the Essential Incompleteness in Program Modeling talk I gave there.

It's a pretty hand-wavy talk, and has no code whatsoever, but I'm relatively happy with the content if not the specific flow of the talk. I generally don't make very useful slides, since it's much more about my talking than my showing you stuff on the screen, but hopefully the slides will be useful to someone.

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 | Tags: conference, rubyconf, rubyconf07, rubyconf2007, slides, godel, incompleteness, ruby