TAE is coming up again, and I’m really pumped up for it. It’s only my second time, but I had such a blast in Boston last fall that I wasn’t going to pass it up when it’s just up the 101, even on my own dime. I still see most of my old Netflix buddies pretty often, but it’ll be cool to catch up with the Yahoo guys and other reprobates.
One of my favorite presenters from last October, Glenn Vanderburg, recently gave a talk at JAOO called The Beauty of Ruby. Since I’m coming to Ruby from a Java perspective, as he did, I was interested in seeing what excited him about the language.
I’m not going to try to reiterate all of his points, but I’d definitely recommend it to anyone else who might be feeling a little bit leery of abandoning their beloved static typing. ;) We’ve been doing it for years on the client side in Javascript, but it feels a little different to do this after so many years of Java. Glenn has a great point about this, and I’ll let him make it.