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I was first introduced to the term polyglot when I was in high school. Our French class did a presentation at a Foreign Language Day. I have this vague recollection that the theme of the day was "Polyglots Have More Fun". I've always liked the word, so I was thrilled to see Neal Ford using...

I'm really looking forward to CodeMash 2008. There is an amazing list of speakers. Here's a subset of the talks that interest me (not in any particular order) Testing with Guice, by Dick Wall Dick is a cohost of the Java Posse podcast, which is invaluable for keeping up to date on Java. He's...

CodeMash is a conference that I'm involved with, as an organizer. Next year's event will be held Jan 9-11 (panel discussion the evening of the 9th, with full days on the 10th and 11th), at the same location as the 2007 event: the Kalahari Resort and Indoor Water Park in Sandusky, OH. CodeMash...

It's the first of the month, do you know which user group meetings you're going to yet? Here are some to choose from. I believe that tonight is the Ruby MI user group meeting, but their website doesn't seem to be responding, so I can't check for sure. You may recall that the Java User...

Last night, Google, the Ann Arbor Computer Society and the Michigan Python User Group met at Google Ann Arbor for a Tech Talk. About 60 people showed up for the talk by Russell Whittaker Whitaker (Google Software Engineer) on Test Driven Development, and were also treated to appetizers and beer and wine...

Meeting review/notes from May 2, 2007 On Wednesday, May 2, Joe O'Brien made the trip from Columbus to present a talk on Ruby for the Enterprise, for the Ann Arbor Computer Society . We first made Joe's acquaintance in the time leading up to CodeMash 2007, when he saw that we were looking for...

Jim Hugunin and John Lam Jim created Jython and IronPython . John is working on Ruby for the CLR, but has only recently transitioned to working for Microsoft. I get the impression that Ruby for the CLR will be released Really Soon Now. Just as I was getting grumpy about not having an interactive conversation...

CodeMash, a developer conference organized by volunteer developers, is to be held January 18-19 in Sandusky, OH. Drawing from national talent as well as regional experts, this conference provides a unique opportunity for a diverse set of people to get to CodeMash deadline is TODAY! Today is the last...

Ohio … where you need to be January 18-19 What? January in Ohio?! That’s always the first reaction. But … once I tell them what’s going on (and that it’s at an indoor water park), the tune changes to, “Really? Cool!”. I’ve been involved with the planning...