Why the hype?

A couple of weeks ago, the whole team traveled to Berlin to attend RailsConfEurope and visit the city.

As an european capital I was expecting it to be crowded and kinda messy, yet I was really amazed by the city’s organization and people’s politeness. I loved Berlin and I’m going to go back there for sure, the next time flying from Porto without passing by Lisbon, if possible!

We stayed at the Helter Skelter Hostel (location, right next to the Friedrichstraße) and this is a really cool place to stay if you’re planning to visit Berlin: we tried the XXL apartment and everybody loved it.

RailsConf hasn’t met my expectations: I attended to some interesting talks but others had been a little too superficial. It was a nice place for networking with people working with Rails though.

September will be a great month when it comes to meetings and conferences! The second edition of BarCamp Portugal is set to be on 1-2 in Coimbra and is being organized and hosted by the whole team @ WBS. In September 17-19 we’re also attending to RailsConf Europe in Berlin.

Organizing and hosting BarCamp is a highly gratifying experience. Being free and ad-hoc it is a nice opportunity to gather the good minds we have in Portugal working on the same (or near) areas as we do. I’m sure this will turn into a great event!
BTW, some “link-love” to our sponsor: Waveweb, owner of Gimmestock and Job board. They are buying all the attendees’ dinner!

For the RailsConf days we’re gonna stay at the Helter Skelter Hostel and I will be attending the “Refactoring” and “FLEX and Rails” workshops and I bet everything will be awesome!