CodeMash 2011

Following CodeMash ’11, I’m still here at the Kalahari. Today was spent winding down from CodeMash w/ some nice water park activities this afternoon followed by a very long & much-needed nap. Weird but cool: CodeMash ’08 inspired me to start a tech blog. My first post was on 1/19/08.  My blog’s busiest day (162 […]

RubyConf 2010, keynotes, and maihem. Oh my!

It’s now a little over a month after RubyConf 2010, but I still want to finish and publish a blog post that I started right after getting back from RubyConf about some of the keynote talks and some of my experiences and thoughts. Whenever I go to a tech conference, I’m often in the minority […]

Never be ashamed of where you came from!

I am frequently asked my opinion on how to encourage more people people to get into software development. My response frequently is: “if people aren’t interested in software development, why force them to be?” I enjoy hearing people’s various responses to my often unexpected follow-up question. All the while, I have my own answer to […]

RubyConf 2010 Highlights

This year, I attended my first RubyConf on Nov. 11-13. It was a blast! I’ve attended lots of local and regional conferences in the last few years, but it’s been awhile since I’ve been to a larger conference. I went to a lot of great sessions, & learned lots of things from lots of people. […]

OSU Ruby on Rails

8 months after stepping so totally out of my comfort zone, speaking at Columbus Ruby Brigade, not remembering most of it because it was such a nervous blur, and swearing off public speaking again for a long time (if ever) – I surprised myself recently. When the OSU Ruby on Rails group sent out an […]

CodeMash 2010

I’m happy to have the priviledge of attending CodeMash yet again this year! And I’m glad to have been able to help out and give back this year. I went and picked up the t-shirts this afternoon.  All 700 t-shirts, in 11 boxes. It’s hard to believe that all of these fit in my car! […]

Speaking at the Columbus Ruby Brigade

Tonight I will be speaking at the Columbus Ruby Brigade (CRB) meeting.  I will be taking the lead from another CRB member, Kevin Munc, who has started a series of introductory talks focusing on taking one method in Ruby and doing a 5-10 minute lightning talking about that method.  “Ruby Method of the Month.”  Tonight […]

CodeMash 2009

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Great Lakes Ruby Bash

As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve enjoyed going beyond my local network of technical folks and attending regional events in Ohio and Michigan such as CodeMash, Cleveland Day of .Net (even though I’ve never been a .Net developer) and Agile Summer Camp.  It’s high time I expand my Ruby-specific regional network, especially now that I’m getting […]

Community Involvement

Over the past year or two – through attending local user groups, regional conferences, and starting to use Twitter – I have enjoyed increasing my social network and expanding the IT community in my world.  I’ve met some amasingly smart and fun people that I’m glad to know.  And Twitter helps me keep in touch with these […]