Enrico and I will be going to RubyFringe, an “avant-garde” conference.  The major thing I like about the idea is that it’s Ruby off the Rails; they’ll be talking about a lot of things which aren’t the web framework.  Personally, I can hardly way to hear more about merb.

This is the first conference I’ll be going to as a Tenthline employee, so I’m not sure what to expect.  It’s supposed to be the opposite of normal conferences, which is about as useful to me as telling a blind man that the light is red because it’s not blue.

Nevertheless, it looks like fun, and its in Toronto!  The thought of networking with other Ruby geeks is enticing.  As Tenthline’s token ruby dynamic language evangelist, this is a great opportunity.

I brushed up on some Ruby skills by writing a short applet which creates random firing sound samples to make an ambient effect which doesn’t sound like it’s looped.  It’s a nice little toy, but it could have potential if I give it a decent GUI.  Times like this I wish I knew RubyCocoa better.  I’ve been trying to study it, but Objective C is really weird.  I’m not sure that’s a bad thing, but seriously.

Will blog more once RubyFringe is over.

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