Three members of the Slantwise team will be heading out to Charlotte tonight for Rubyconf 2007 – Dan Weinand, Luke Francl, and Jon Dahl. We’re excited and hoping that it will have some of the magic of earlier Ruby conferences. Railsconf 2007 was a good time, but things are bound to change when O’Reilly and a thousand attendees are involved.
A few other folks from the Twin Cities are going too: Tom Brice, and three members of the JRuby team: Nick Sieger, Thomas Enebo, and Charles Nutter. (As an aside, JRuby is probably the most exciting thing going on in the Ruby world these days – even for non-Java programmers like yours truly – so if you aren’t following the JRuby project, you really should. At RUM on Monday, Nick and Charlie demonstrated deploying Rails apps with Glassfish, and the JRuby compiler, respectively. Pretty cool.)
Here is a picture of Jon, Luke, and Dan (left to right). So if you see us at the conference this weekend, say hi!
