Nobody Listens Anyway

I spent two years in Japan. While there I met all kinds of interesting people. I remember one individual in particular because he was a chess grand master. He was also very good at Shogi. In fact he had written Shogi the video game for Nintendo.
I like chess and [...]

We missed the first talk this morning (sorry Devlin we suck). I slept till 9:30, but mainly because we were up till 4am. Dave South gave me some great info on using TestSpec. RSpec seems to be the hot thing right now, but I like how TestSpec is lightweight:
Install the gem:
sudo gem [...]

I’m at the Mountain West Ruby Conference for the next few days so I will be doing a bunch of blog posts that look like notes.
Up right now:
Strengthening the Ruby Ecosystem & Ezra Zygmuntowicz Evan Phoenix
Evan is talking about Rubinius. Engine Yard pays him to work on the project full time. Even doesn’t [...]

The review is actually less painful than I would have thought. They are looking at parts of the code and giving specific feedback on code blocks. Here’s a quick summary:
‘and’ and ‘or’ are different than ‘||’ and ‘&&’. The second returns boolean values. The first returns strings. [...]

We are at the Ruby Conference this weekend. The Ruby community is active, talented and friendly. I mean that. Often, because of religious zeal open source communities act very closed to individuals outside their group. The Ruby world isn’t like that. Everyone wants to help. Everyone is friendly. [...]