Last year, I attended my first computing conference ever: RubyFringe. It was really more of an “un-conference”, organized by everybody’s favourite Toronto Ruby shop, Unspace.
The whole experience was fantastic. Giles Bowkett kept us in our seats past lunch with his thought-provoking presentation which mixed his slick Ruby MIDI generator, Archaeopteryx, with a call to action so moving that we could not help rising from our seats to give him a standing ovation. Nick Sieger threw us a curveball with a presentation on the history of jazz music and how it relates to programming. RubyFringe was a weekend to remember for everybody involved.
So, I was incredibly excited when Pete Forde and Meghann Millard announced that they would be running another Ruby conference in Toronto: Future Ruby. It’s not quite meant to be a RubyFringe sequel; really, something as uniquely awesome as RubyFringe will never be replicated again. But in any case I bought my ticket almost the very moment they went on sale.
Future Ruby will be next week and I will be there. Hope to see you there too!