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RubyConf ‘08 Talk Slides Available

Eric — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:44:27 +0000

Slides for my RubyConf ‘08 talk — Effective and Creative Coding: Help from Cognitive Psychology in Caring for the Rubyist’s Mind — are now available.

Ruby Double Whammy: Workshop + Conference in Ann Arbor

Eric — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:34:08 +0000

We scheduled our Ruby Fundamentals Workshop just before the Great Lakes Ruby Bash conference here in Ann Arbor, so workshop participants can stay an extra day and enjoy the conference.

Learn more on our training page.

Registration Now Open for the Great Lakes Ruby Bash

Eric — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:13:24 +0000

The Great Lakes Ruby Bash is a one-day regional Ruby conference that will be held in Ann Arbor, MI on Saturday, October 11th. The conference is only $50 and includes lunch.

Registration is now open.

Speaking at RubyConf 2008 (or: reframing the problem)

Eric — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:18:36 +0000

I got an email from David Black of Ruby Central yesterday that my talk proposal had been accepted for RubyConf 2008 in Orlando, Florida. My talk will be on Friday, November 7th from 2:10 – 2:55 in Room #1.

You will see from the abstract that this is not a typical Ruby talk. Since I spoke at RubyConf 2007, I felt I had to at least submit a proposal for this year’s conference. I struggled to come up with something that would be cool and interesting, and I was failing miserably. On the final day that talk proposals were being accepted I decided to take a step back and ask myself what I could offer the Ruby community. And when I framed the problem that way, I realized that my background in neural modeling and cognitive psychology was likely unique in the Ruby community, and that that was where I should look for a topic. Two hours later I’d written the abstract for my talk.