I can say with confidence that RubyFringe is the best tech I have ever attended, and possibly the most important one to boot. The presentations have gone beyond what you’d find at your typical tech conference: no product pitches disguised as seminars, no flavour-of-the-month technologies being hyped, but just good ideas that have a certain timeless quality to them, presented by offbeat people to an offbeat crowd. It’s events like this that make me glad I’m a geek and that I make stuff out of pure thought and caffeine every single day. This is more than a 9-to-5 workaday thing that pays the bills; this is our passion.
Simply put, this conference pulled down my brain’s pants and blew my mind.
Here’s a wide-angle photo, which is going to be known as the “We Are RubyFringe” shot:
Photo by Kieran Huggins.
Click the photo to see a larger version.
I’ve posted my notes from Day 1 over at my tech blog, Global Nerdy:
There’s more over here at the Unspace article, We Are RubyFringe.
I’ll post my Day 2 notes later on. I’ll also post a summary here — there was a lot of stuff at this conference that applies to more than just geek life, namely the bits about failure and eschewing the mainstream.
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It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons…
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons…
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons…