BohConf 2010: A Retrospective

June 22nd, 2010 by
BohConf 2010

BohConf 2010

After an exhilarating week of hosting the Rails community in Baltimore for RailsConf, I thought it’d be helpful to share the lessons that we learned organizing BohConf.

Community Code Drives Rock!

We had a strong showing of open source authors including Wayne Seguin, Gregory Brown, Aslak Hellesøy, Chris Eppstein, Nick Gauthier and various members of Thoughtbot crew. Wayne (rvm) and Greg (prawn) in particular raved about the contributions they were able to make to their projects. Hey, I even got a new release of Timecop out thanks to a patch from Larry Marburger. Other well known OSS authors that dropped by included Rick Olson, Patrick Peak, and Josh Nichols. If you were there and we missed you, please drop us a line in the comments!

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SmartLogic Wants to Clean Up Twitter, Introduces ShouldIRT.com

May 5th, 2009 by

Are you tired of a world that lacks retweeting etiquette? You know who I’m talking about, that dude who’s always retweeting @THE_REAL_SHAQ or @guykawasaki. Or those guys with multiple twitter accounts who need to ensure that every last contact gets the message, several duplicate followers be damned!

Well, we’re sick of it…..and we’re not the only ones!
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