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This was my first year ever attending a conference so I have no frame of reference. I do know that I enjoyed just about every geeky moment. I was able to connect with other people who have been through or are going through a lot of the same things that I am in my career.

A major benefit for me

was that since I do not work at at company that uses Rails, so I am not immersed in the culture like other developers. I am surrounded by some of the most accomplished front-end engineers and I am thankful. My back-end technology of choice however, is Rails and at times I start to feel like it only exists in a lonely little world of my own. I try to make a point of listening to podcasts and reading blogs to keep me in the loop but there is obviously no feedback there. 

What stood out to me

was the after-party scene. Don’t get me wrong, I got a lot of inspiration out of the couple keynotes that I was able to catch but I would have come here just to meet the Rails heros. I am leaving Portland with so much inspiration to try some of the things that I learned.

The hard part

for me is that I am not a Rails developer at my “Day Job”. I have to go back and try to apply what I can to better my job as it stands. I am also, going to do everything that I can to do some Rails stuff on the side so that I don’t loose my momentum.

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