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the conference started smoothly, despite not enough power cords (lucky me with my iPod touch) and the Prague marathon right outside the university. The keynote was hold by Matz and reeally grew in the second half where it was about m17n and issues with that. Koichi showed some benchmarks and details from his YARV. Charles and Thomas from the JRuby announced the brandnew version 1.1 and outlined it's new features and optimisations. They'll second part was writing GUI apps, a five-liner for a swing-frame including a button and an event many LOC less than pure Java. The Rail part was kept short and featured a few references of production sites running JRuby. After a short break to their mac's problems and questions from the audience about testing the ruby-specs, the finished with demoing ruby-processing (this great graphics library) samples running them on JRuby.