The second day of RailsConf Europe 2008 started with David Heinemeier Hansson’s keynote on legacy software and was by far the most interesting and enlightening of the talks that I attended yesterday. DHH was mainly talking about legacy but I think the main message he was trying to get through was that a programmer should never stop learning, and I totally agree with that. I really regret I haven’t written about this before because now it will look like another DHH fanboy desperately trying to get to the me-too camp. Nonetheless, a couple of my own thoughts first and then on with the show.