Well, a few other Mints and I are just back from Scotland on Rails and what a good time we had! First, it's always good to be back in the homeland. Second, it was a great conference.
What made it for me was the size. It was big enough to have decent talks but small enough to get to meet everyone you wanted. Out of the talks I saw, the JRuby talk, on Saturday was particularly interesting. I've been meaning to give this more attention for a while and this has definitely reinforced the reasons for doing so.
Jonathan Weiss gave an interesting talk on Rails patterns which crossed over with our work at Mint. It's great to see someone else talk about ideas we've been playing with internally. Image processing and asset storage are things we deal with in almost every project.
We also had a great post-conf meetup in London on Tuesday. I wasn't aware at the time but it was actually a music and Ruby hacking meet. Writing Ruby to make music anyone? Combining two things you love is always good!
Anyway, a great conference all round and I'll be back next year (if it's on!). Well done guys. Check out the photos.
Added by Andy Bell: Two Mints were speaking at the conference. Paul Dix was speaking on collective intelligence. Thomas was speaking on high-performance rails apps. I added the photo too, in case anyone is wondering why Thomas is posting pictures of himself.