Ruby Hoedown 2007

I just signed up for the Ruby Hoedown conference. It’s being held here in Raleigh at Red Hat headquarters on August 10 & 11, and the cost is only $100. Speakers include Bruce Tate, Marcel Molina Jr., Ken Auer, Ezra Zygmuntowicz (cool name :) ), Andrea O. K. Wright, Jay Phillips & Jared Richardson.

I also signed up for the charity workshop on testing techniques put on by Marcel Molina, Jr., Bruce Tate, and Chad Fowler – the donation proceeds for that workshop go to the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC. It will probably be a smaller group with more interaction.

Should be an interesting and fun time – gain some knowledge, make some contacts. Let me know if you’re also planning on attending.

Some links:

• “Programming Ruby” by Dave Thomas
• “Agile Web Development with Rails” by Thomas & Heinemeier Hansson
• The Ruby Language
• Ruby on Rails
• Mongrel – Ruby web server