I did a well-received talk on ActiveRecord at last year’s Community Day. Community Day ‘09 was the first of its kind in Copenhagen, and it was quite successful in bringing developers with different technical backgrounds together as well as attracting students – probably because of the free beer :)

Community Day in Copenhagen is back again this year, so reserve May 27 if you are near Copenhagen and like free tech-talks, networking and beer. This year Daniel Frost, the Microsoft evangelist that makes it happen, has involved me and several other developers actively in the planning of the day. With CD ‘10 we have raised the level of ambition – bigger venue, more people, more talks and if course more fun.

We will have 20 sessions distributed on four concurrent tracks covering a surprisingly wide number of topics – very few of the talks are on Microsoft-technologies, in fact so few that we might loose a few of those .NET consultants who thinks anything non-MS are not worth listening to ;) Still, if you are doing anything at all related to the web (and most of us are, right?) you will surely find topics such as HTML 5, Single Sign On, Azure, Advanced jQuery etc. interesting.

I will be giving a talk with the rather bold title “Replace ASP.NET with IronRuby on Rails”. It will give me an excuse to seriously dive into IronRuby and how to make a Rails site talk fluently with .NET libraries and assemblies. Coming from a serious amount of ASP.NET development myself, I really think a lot of web-based .NET projects could benefit from Ruby on Rails. The only time I was really happy with ASP.NET was when I switched to that from classic ASP – but since then, it hasn’t evolved that much. Granted, ASP.NET MVC has rescued developers from the annyoing “webform” structure, but it still has a long way to go.

I’m getting ahead of myself here, come watch the session – sign up for Community Day ‘10 now!

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