RailsConf 2006 Keynotes
It's almost exactly a year late, but I stumbled upon the video for the RailsConf 2006 keynotes. I'm hoping (and expecting) that they do something like this again for the RailsConf that just occurred last weekend, since I wasn't able to go. The keynotes for last year's conference were really good. I've never really been a huge fan of Paul Graham, but his keynote was excellent, as was Martin Fowler's keynote on "Why Ruby?"
It's hard to find the time to watch hour long videos, but I do have an hour-long bus ride to work. I figured transcoding the video into audio would be a good idea, so that I could listen to the talks on my Shuffle. This turned out to be much easier than I expected. It was trivial to get Quicktime Pro to export the audio to WAV, after which I could just add the WAV to iTunes, right-click, and convert to AAC. Checking the "Remember Position" option for the AAC track is crucial, of course, for an hour-long talk. A few minutes after having the idea to listen on my iPod, I had a few hours of smart people to keep me busy on the long traffic jam we call the 520.