Dev Rio in 2009 started at the scheduled time when me and my friend Henrique Bastos (the creators of the conference) opened the event with a quick presentation and thanking our sponsors, supporters, communities and friends who helped us a lot more than you can imagine.

* Henrique Bastos and me at the Dev in Rio opening.

To begin the day, we started the two tracks of Dev in Rio 2009. At the main auditorium we had the scheduled lectures while in the foyer we had the Coding Dojo.

Coding Dojo is a programming arena that was organized by the Dojo Rio folks in partnership with Dojo@SP. The idea is to work on simple and novelty problems, using programming techniques like Test-Driven Development and SOLID principles. This was definitely the best surprise we had in the day – the Dojo went much better than we could ever imagine (except that the Java Dojo wasn’t much popular, I have to admit).

* Coding Dojo at Dev in Rio: 3 meters of code on the wall!

* People participating at Dev in Rio’s Coding Dojo.

The first talk of the day was given by Ryan Ozymek, that entered the stage with his famous penguin to talk about his experience with open source software and the Joomla! community. He detailed how a big software development community works and gave his entrepreneur vision about how to use open source software to leverage businesses.

After that, Guilherme Silveira and Nico Steppat talked about a very controversial theme: Is Java dead? They addressed the fact that there are many things beyond the language in the Java universe and that despite the language is “expiring” the JVM can still be very useful.

After lunch, Fabio Akita gave no respite for anyone who was sleepy and did an excellent presentation on the Ruby on Rails ecosystem, with excellent videos, screen casts and quite information beyond the code. He doesn’t know but he took away the breath of the simultaneous translation girls!

Continuing, the (almost carioca) Jacob Kaplan-Moss made his presentation on Django, that he calls “the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines”, developed in Python. He spoke about the concepts and values that guided the development of the project and showed a bit of code to give the audience an idea of how to use the basics of Django.

The last presentation of the day was given by Jeff Patton, that talked about product development with Agile methods. Using as a narrative the story of a project carried out in conjunction with Obie Fernandez, several common problems in software development (and their solutions) have been addressed.

In the end, our great friend Vinicius Manhães Teles led an interesting conversation between speakers, communities and the audience. We had the impression that if we didn’t control the time, the conversation would have taken hours and hours because there were a lot of interesting subjects and questions. The audience took a great deal and we had interesting topics like entrepreneurship and controversial as the stupid regulation law of the systems analyst profession proposed by the Brazilian government (in Portuguese only).

* Discussion led by Vinicius Teles. And before anybody asks, no, that one on the picture is not Adam Savage from MythBusters, it’s Jeff Patton.

While all these things were happening, me, Henrique, Gustavo Guanabara and Flavia Freire (Arteccom‘s journalist) spent the day recording a huge podcast of the event, interviewing staff and filming the scenes. We have talked with the speakers, sponsors and attendees about all the subjects addressed on the talks! Watch the “making of” of some Podcasts with Ryan Ozimek, with Guilherme and Paulo Silveira and with Fabio Akita and Marcos Tapajós.

* Guanabara recording the Podcast with Fabio Akita and Marcos Tapajós (and a neat detail: Guilherme Silveira and Paulo Silveira doing Pair Programming just behind them).

Since the event was realized on a monday, we ended the conference inviting everybody (with the “Estamos todos bêbados” song from Matanza in the background and choreography by Sylvestre Mergulhão and Henrique Andrade) for an epic edition of #Horaextra (that means “Overtime”, our weekly social meeting) at Lapa 40º. The entrance was free to everybody that had the Dev in Rio 2009 badge and that was how we realized the biggest and best #Horaextra ever:

* Watch more Dev in Rio 2009 videos.

I’m sure that this simple blog post cannot tell even 0,001% of what Dev in Rio 2009 was and how happy I am for being able to make it. I’d like to thank again the fundamental support from the folks of Globo.com that was the main responsible for making it happen, our sponsors Caelum, Locaweb and D-Click and everybody else that have supported us some way: Associação PythonBrasil, Fábrica Livre, Myfreecomm, OpenSourceMatters, Arteccom, DojoRio, Dojo@SP, #Horaextra, PythOnRio, RioJUG, RubyInside Brasil, Guanabara.info and everybody that attended to Dev in Rio 2009. Without your support nothing would’ve been possible!

* Participants of Dev in Rio’s round table.

If you didn’t go to Dev in Rio, I have two things to tell you: (1) you did lose one of the best conferences in Rio ever but (2) we’re going to make the presentation videos available very soon to alleviate your pain.

See you in 2010!