By far the best app when abroad. Use it to plan a holiday with color coded bookmarks. Easy to plan hikes, runs etc. And all offline. Great to spot where you find drinking water, playgrounds, and all the other great details OSM provides.
Started using it in Montenegro for driving as well since I didn’t want to pay a fortune for roaming and all other offline apps or even GPS device did not have the country available offline.
I really like the Ruby Rogues Parley http://rubyrogues.com/parley/ and ruby weekly http://rubyweekly.com
One is great just to get up to date and the other has really great discussions with all kind of people involved with Ruby in one or the other way.
Great article.
As an attendee I really love it when a conference starts and ends with a keynote just like you described. Inspiring, not to specific and fun. At the start of conference it is fun to set the tone and wake you up if it is early.
When the conference has multiple tracks I love it when the last talk of the conference is the same for everybody, just to end together. That talk should send you home with the energy to start doing something. Again not to specific about something so you just reflect that on what you are doing instead of what somebody else is doing.
As a conference organiser these thoughts help me make decisions on who I invite to speak at the beginning and at the end of our conference. Maybe not only who, but definitely the content of the talk. We ask our keynote speakers to make it fun, inspiring and so far that always worked out for us and our attendees.
As somebody who would like to start speaking at conference your ideas and links really boosted that idea. Not that I want to start do keynotes, but I think those rules and the link to the questions Kent Beck sums up.
By the way, really loved your talk at Nordic Ruby!
Thanks Joren! Great points about opening and closing. Conferences use the word "Keynote" really loosely, but I think they're best when used to open and/or close to set the context and mood for the event.
Great little app.
Love the duo of Github and the Mac App Store. I also love my apps straight from the app store.
Maybe something little to add to the app are more key-bindings. I'm used to be able to open an url from Twitter apps just by using the right arrow. This would be great to be added to your app. With or without the option to open the website in the background.
Like the idea and liking the app. Solves some of my issues I'm having with find my friends.
Would love to see some kind of location requests and settings on how often my location is updated.
I'm keeping an eye on this app.
Started using it in Montenegro for driving as well since I didn’t want to pay a fortune for roaming and all other offline apps or even GPS device did not have the country available offline.