The Ruby Brigade!

[elfs]

Since Kouryou-chan isn't taking dance over the summer and Yamaraashi-chan is over at her mother's house, I had an opportunity this evening to go hit the Seattle Ruby Brigade meeting over at Cafe' Vivace.

I met a lot of very smart men who seem to be not doing a whole heck of a lot. Rails was the obvious talk of the day, and I received a great quick lesson on how to use migrations to version-control the database. I got into a religious discussion on Python vs. Ruby, and why Python has the lion's share of minds and why it's struggling against Ruby in document-embedded language applications like Rails and RHTML. (Basically, he hated the whitespace requirement in Python, which I pointed out was a case of convention over configuration-- a motto of ruby-- and he admitted that he really just hated the whitespace requirement.)

It was a pretty good time. I got there early and finished editing chapter 19 of Sterlings: Polly and Dove. (I posted chapter one earlier today, by the way. Go read, tell me what you think!)

Down to the wire now, only three chapters left.

Comments

Speaking of Ruby...

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

lupabitch is very, very amused by where her A Field Guide to Otherkin ended up being listed. I think you will be, too!

Re: Speaking of Ruby...

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That is amusing. And a little odd. Why there?

[slutdiary.livejournal.com]

Oh for pete's sake.

I am so not a code geek. I started reading this LJ entry and thought you were talking about a new handballing social group.

Nevermind.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, I so wish I had the time for that kind of thing these days. I could probably go to a handballing party now and then, but it's the daily exercise that I just don't have room for in my life. Back before I had kids, I had that time-- and the toys to go with it.