The first RailsConf was held in Chicago last weekend and I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and information overload.

What a great conference! Easily the best I have attended. So many interesting people and interesting projects. I met Rails enthusiasts from all over the world, and several people I met flew 20+ hours to be there!

Some of the highlights for me:

-Paul Graham's keynote (now an essay on his site). It was as always inspiring and thought-provoking.

-Martin Fowler's keynote about ThoughtWorks and his opinion of Rails.

-Nathaniel Talbott's presentation. Maybe the most inspiring talk of the whole conference.

-DHH's keynote about the future of Rails and RESTful controllers. Looks like I might need to re-work some of my projects =)

Of course, the best part of a conference like this is meeting new people and just hanging out talking about Rails and general geek stuff. And maybe playing some 8-way Mario Kart.