As some of you know, we the Veer Worker Gnomes decided last year to adopt Ruby on Rails for the development of the new and awesome Ideas section. It’s been a blast. Rails isn’t perfect, but I haven’t had this much fun nerding in a long time, and its allowed us to push out snazzy new features way faster that we've ever been able to before.
Fellow VWG, Mark Bauer, and I headed down to Portland last week to check out the happenings at RailsConf 2008. All in all, a good show. Four days of intensive sessions, new ideas, product announcements (woo Rails 2.1!), shmoozing, and frolicking. Thanks to everyone for their involvement, cheers to those we managed to meet up with, and loving kudos to Portland for being such an awesome city.
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Glad you had a good time down there. Also glad you breezed past the clogstore. Stumptown!
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hiya Yuval! ;-)
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Bravo!
Thank You!
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Glad you fellers made it back from Stumptown in one piece. The community pod just wasn’t the same without you … or the bleeps and bloops. Now, let’s start building some more cool bits around here.
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