Sun Jun 19, 2011 @ 5:39 am
Here are some rambling notes on the themes and connections – intended and mostly otherwise – I saw in the material presented and discussed in the halls at Nordic Ruby.
Expressiveness
In Tom Preston-Werner’s opening session, he talked …
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Thu May 12, 2011 @ 7:54 pm
The tech community has a diversity problem. Take gender diversity, for one thing. By most counts, the average open source project has 49 male participants for every female participant. Women at conferences – rare enough already! – are assumed …
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 @ 7:36 pm
I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation as Scotland on Rails) and it's one of my all-time favorite conferences.

My talk is on the challenges …
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Mon Jun 16, 2008 @ 2:30 pm
I’ve been thinking lately about how many of the talks at tech conferences are bizarrely impractical. For a counter-example, Rands has this seemingly un-radical suggestion
This is the presentation I want to see at the next conference: in a room full …
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 11:54 am
For what it's worth... I'll be attending RailsConf Europe in Berlin September 18 & 19. It'll be nice to be back in Berlin, it's been almost 10 years.

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