We’re back from Ruby Fringe.  Everyone who was there declared it the best conference they have ever attended.  There were a huge number of highlights, the speakers were awesome, and I can honestly say I walked away both educated and inspired.
The spirit of the conference was very positive.  There was no official back channel, because [...]

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 [...]

TOJam was great fun, though I felt a little like a fish out of water. I haven’t used C++ in a while, and the last time I did anything serious with Visual Studio I had not yet gone to university.
As a result I spent most of my time writing game logic, the things which [...]