Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor.
@charlmatthee fixed!
First Rails Presentation
October 4th, 2007
So I was digging through the Wayback Machine and I found the first ever Rails presentation (from March 2004), given before Rails was even released.
Take a look. There’s some great stuff in there, from the original name of the basic controller class (AbstractApplicationController), the names of the methods in controllers (do_index, do_authenticate), to passing ivars to the view (@assigns["customer"] = Customer.find(@params["id"])).
Check it out… it’s pretty cool :)