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I’ve been kind of lax about doing anything to help with URUG of late, and I’m starting to feel guilty about it. Fortunately, O’Reilly and their User Group Program made it easy to do something to put off the guilt for another day. While I was on vacation, two books showed up in my mailbox: Ruby By Example and Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications. I’m more aware of the first (I was the
As I’ve told a number of people, I’m trying to ramp down a bit on my involvement with the Ruby community. It’s not because I don’t love ya’ll, it’s just that I have other things that are becoming more important to me. Last Saturday (Nov 17th) was one of the last major events I’ll be involved in setting up, the MountainWest RubyCamp. The RubyCamp went really well. We had about 20 people show
For last night’s UtahValley.rb meeting (Sep 25th), we had two Microsoft guys come fly in to talk about IronRuby and another hacker come to talk about Ruby.NET. I was deeply disappointed—not by either of the projects or the presentations, but because we only got 5 people to show up, and as we all know “Five is right out.” So, what went wrong? We (Mike Moore and I) talked things up on the URUG