I haven’t been posting much lately. I would like to get back to it, but I’m not sure where I want to do that. In the meantime, I use google reader to share things I find interesting.
Also, you can see a snapshot of recent items over there in the right column.
I mentioned previously that I’ll be speaking at GoGaRuCo 2011. Well, the conference begins this friday. If you weren’t lucky enough to get a ticket before it sold out, fear not. Talks will be streamed live to the interwebs at a URL to be announced.
Check out the schedule to see who’s speaking about what and when. It’s going to be a great conference. Hope to see you there.
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Ruby great such as Yehuda Katz, José Valim, and Ilya Grigorik on the speakers list at this year’s Golden Gate Ruby Conference. My talk will be on the Go programming language.
Ruby takes inspiration from many programming languages that came before it. It aspires to make complicated programming tasks simpler. Go provides a similar simplification for lock-free concurrent programming though a few simple language features. Even though Ruby is over ten years old, this is no time to stop looking outwards for inspiration.
Come see an introduction to Go, a demonstration of how Go does concurrency, and how these concepts are applicable within the Ruby community.
Some people write about how long it’s been since they’ve posted. I’m not going to do that.
To celebrate my recent completion of 26 laps around the sun, Kate arranged a trip to Napa for us and some friends.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, but I’m trying to get out with my camera when the weather is good. Here are some shots from a recent trip to Crissy Field.
This year, I have everything I want.
My friend made a cover of Fireflies by Owl City. It’s mostly a cappella and fully awesome.
Rails 3.0 is going to fully support Ruby 1.9. It’s a good thing, too, since 1.9 is much faster and has some important improvements. What that means is that, eventually, if not now, you’ll want to at least make sure your code runs in 1.9. A while back, I went through the differences between 1.8 and 1.9 with an eye for forward compatibility issues. I’ve picked out what I think the major gotchas are. Avoid these in your code and it should make moving to 1.9 a lot easier.
