As of September 2, Panel Picker voting is closed. You can, however, still leave comments on the proposals you find interesting. We will announce the first set of accepted panels on Thursday, October 2. Stay tuned to the SXSW Interactive Festival website for these announcements, or e-mail us if you have questions.
Frameworks such as Ruby on Rails have received a lot of hype and press in the Web 2.0 community. However, frameworks are not always the best choice for a project. The session focuses on successful products that don't use frameworks, or did... and wish they hadn't.