Category Archives: Conferences

RubyNation links

I’ve been posting the web pages of the RubyNation speakers and the Ruby tools and libraries that they mention using the rubynation tag. I’ve been using a private beta of my OS X bookmarking app Webnote to post it to … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Ruby, Washington DC | Comments Off

Generating random numbers in Cocoa

I’m writing an application to pick prize winners for the RubyNation conference that’s coming up here in the Washington DC area. As part of that, I have to generate random numbers. So I went looking for how to generate random … Continue reading

Posted in Cocoa, Conferences, Mac OS X, Programming | 1 Comment

Registration for RubyNation is now open

East Coast Rubyists – you can now register for the Washington DC area Ruby conference RubyNation. It costs $175 and seats are limited. We also have a new speaker, Glenn Vanderburg. He’s the Chief Scientist at Relevance, who I’ve done … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Ruby, Washington DC | Comments Off

RubyNation – a Ruby conference in the Washington, DC area

I’m proud to say that we are going to have our very own Ruby conference here in the Washington, DC area! It is called RubyNation and it will be happening on August 1 – 2, 2008 at the Center of … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Ruby, Washington DC | Comments Off

The closing Jimnote at MountainWest RubyConf

Many of us call the opening keynote of WWDC by Steve Jobs the Stevenote. Well I’m dubbing the closing keynote of MountainWest RubyConf the Jimnote in honor of Jim Weirich. But… maybe I’m too late. It was sort of like … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Ruby | Comments Off

2007 Training in Review

Last year I took a lot of training. In the past, my employers would usually send me to one training event. Sometimes I would get to go to two if times were good. Other times, there was no training budget. … Continue reading

Posted in Cocoa, Conferences, Programming, Rails, RailsConf, Ruby | 1 Comment

RailsConf 2006 registration is open and selling fast

RailsConf 2006 is the first conference for Rails. It’s capped at 400 participants and there were already 100+ people who signed up by Thursday the 2nd of February 12 hours after it opened! I would like to go, but my … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Rails | Comments Off

WWDC 2005 Recap

WWDC was great. It was my first time attending and will probably not be my last. At first it was a bit intimidating, especially with the huge crowds waiting to get into the Keynote. But after a while, I really … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Mac OS X | Comments Off

WWDC 2005 Keynote Revisited

As everyone on the planet and their mother knows by now, Apple is officially stopping the use of PowerPC chips and will phase them out over the next 2 years. They will be going with the 800lb Gorilla of the … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Mac OS X | 1 Comment

I’m at WWDC 2005

It’s less than an hour until Steve Job’s keynote and the place is buzzing. There is a HUGE line to get into the keynote. Its like they released Star Wars Episode 7 or there was a release of The Hobbit. … Continue reading

Posted in Cocoa, Conferences | Comments Off