09
Jun
The Dallas WordCamp is fast approaching (June 27-28) and this year will be my first at any WordCamp. I’ve used WordPress exclusively for several years now and its about time that I get more involved in the community. I have a few plugins in the works along with 2 themes to be released soon and figured its the perfect time to attend WordCamp. Although the schedule hasn’t been finalized they did post a list of confirmed speakers. There are currently over 100 people registered but still plenty of room and time to get yourself registered and for only $30 you have no reason. I’ll be there with a few of the guys here at DigiMedia so it should be a good event.
28
Aug
Next weekend I will be attending the Lone Star Ruby Conference in Austin, Texas. My work, DigiMedia, is sending 5 of us down there from Thursday to Saturday night. I am glad to have the chance to go and hear some panels on Ruby, Merb, and Rails. I am still new to Ruby and Rails but have been learning a lot of getting ready to write my first Rails app soon. I haven’t looked at merb yet but need to start as the next big project at work will use merb. I still have a lot to learn on Ruby but am looking forward to learning it and attending more conferences in the area.
This will be my first conference on any subject so I’m looking forward to it that much more. The other guys all know Ruby and have been using it for a little while now so I’m the newb of the bunch, but that is alright with me as I love learning and get excited over it. I remember when I first touched css and then when I first started messing around with php several years ago. I will of course be shooting video, in fact we are buying a Flip cam in a few days, so I plan to take it to try it out. It will actually be for my 5 year old son, but I’ll do some testing on it first. 
If your going to the conference, here are the panels I’m planning to attend (note; these are just the panels where there are two at the same time):
Friday, September 5
Javascript frameworks with Ruby
Care and Feeding of Ruby Developers
Creating Desktop Applications With Ruby on Mac OS X
Ruby in the Cloud
Saturday, September 6
Using jQuery with Ruby Web Frameworks
Resource-Driven Web Development With Waves
How Not To Build A Service or Ruby Anvil (still debating)
Merb: The Pocket Rocket Framework
