John Dyer
Developer at Spree Commerce Inc in DC

RailsConf is coming to Austin! Join us in Austin, TX from April 23 - 25 for the seventh annual RailsConf

Thanks in large part to the Baltimore Rails Community who were such a great hosts in 2010, RailsConf is returning to Baltimore again in 2011. Happening May 16-19, 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center, RailsConf is the official event for the Ruby on Rails community. If you're passionate about Rails and what it helps you achieve—or are...

RubyNation is an annual two-day, dual-track technical conference presented by the Washington, DC area Ruby Community.

Cue Ira Glass voice-over: “This month, one theme, three stories.” Designer, developer, and CEO will share how concepts and tools of yore occasionally resurge with new potential in the light of recent creative, technological, or cultural developments. 1) See how your web design approaches change when 1999’s four-eyed, brace-faced Fluid Layout...

Clojure for Ruby ProgrammersThe Clojure programming language is a game-changer. It will stretch your mind and make you a better programmer. The Ruby community is filled with lifelong learners willing to invest early in new things. You can't make a better investment than this. Come and learn about Clojure from somebody who knows both Clojure...

Come prepared with an idea or two of some open source ruby that you'd like to hack on, be it a brand new gem, a new feature in an old gem, or just some bug fixing. Come prepared to help someone else out with their idea. We'll break into pairs, or larger groups, or whatever seems natural - and we'll see how much we can accomplish in...

Ruby. New Orleans. Nuff said.

This is a completely open, free-form, "just show up with a laptop (or a friend with a laptop) and hack on some Ruby" meeting. There's no agenda, and there's sure to be a great mix of coding and shooting the breeze about all things geeky, including our favorite language. Nathaniel will be showing up around 6 to grab something to...

This is a completely open, free-form, "just show up with a laptop (or a friend with a laptop) and hack on some Ruby" meeting. There's no agenda, and there's sure to be a great mix of coding and shooting the breeze about all things geeky, including our favorite language. Nathaniel will be showing up around 6 to grab something to...

Rapid Prototyping and Customer Development: The Hacker’s Guide to Software Design

A/B Testing for developers

This month, we'll celebrate _why Day (http://whyday.org/...) a little early. In one of _why's last public appearances, at the Art && Code Symposium, he proposed a game called Kaxxt. The full presentation video is here: http://www.vimeo.com/.... The Kaxxt part starts at 26:00.

We'll take a stab at implementing the game. We...