By the way, my son is one of the speakers!

(I’m not able to go either)

Thanks for all your hard work on Ravelry- hope you feel the love! Beth

Casey –

Thanks for the good links. I hadn’t seen a couple of these. More is better: in the Rails world, what it lacks quality, completeness and consistency of documentation it makes up for in string opinion, certitude, and volume

Ruby, Java, they are all the same in a wonderful, yet disturbing way (distinct from the prior culture of MS, which was itself distinct from IBM). They all start with a healthy disdain for the mistakes of past idiots. Then people begin to fall in love with what’s new way beyond any real capability of the language/framework. It begins to buckle, and new disdain begins to foment. Then it starts splintering into multiple similar but different frameworks and extensions until it’s a big old mushy mess, just like the last one. Just what the next wave needs to get disdainful enough to write a new one. I don’t see this state of things converging, 35 or so years into the whole “computer thing”.

There’s a great post on JoelOnSoftware that’s worth reading if you haven’t seen it: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html

Hope all’s well.

Tom

P.S. Let me know if you know any front-endy/ajaxy folks around here who want to work free for a good cause; my “green” site is coming along great, but is as ugly as sin.

By the way, my wife loves Ravelry. Thanks for creating the site, now I’ve got all kinds of knitted “things”. (j/k)