I had a lot of things to do last Thursday, Feb-17. I met a friend from abroad 3am at Ben Gurion Airport and spent several hours talking before we went sleep, signed a contract for developing killer web app at 1:30am, and finally gave a presentation at The Junction at 4:30pm.

Vitaly gave an interesting presentation about MongoDB at Database 2011 Conference.

Find the slides inside.

We presented on IGTCloud Ruby On Rails Day today.

http://www.meetup.com/IGTCloud/calendar/15572435/

Agenda was a bit different this time, not only technical presentations but also a few words about modern approach of building web applications.

Find the slides below.

The OPEN 2010 conference was very well organized and had many interesting talks.

The side of low level, infrastructure things was presented by people from Red Hat, VMWare and IBM. The buzz words “SaaS”, “PaaS” and the likes were all over the place together with recent hot topic of virtualization.

On the application level there were interesting presentations about Django, PostgreSQL. And of course our own presentations on Ruby, Rails, NoSQL along with a longer, 2 hours “Introduction to Ruby” workshop.

The food was great too. That’s important.

We uploaded our slides with english transcription for some of them on the “we speak” page.

We are giving 4 out of 20 sessions at Open 2010, an Israeli open source conference.

Michael is giving the last keynote and me and Boris will be opening 2 of the 3 tracks: open startup and open enterprise.

I’m going to talk about “NoSQL, when, why, and how” and Boris is giving an introduction to Rails, web development that doesn’t hurt.

After the tracks we will also have a long 2 hour Ruby and Rails workshop.

See you there ;)

P.S. btw, Astrails is sponsoring this event together with a couple of smaller companies like IBM, Red Hat and VMWare :)

P.P.S. Big thanks goes to Raphael Fogel and People&Computers for organizing the whole thing.