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PHP

Not!

Well I’m not saying that, because last time I did and I jinxed myself and had to come running back after only 3 months of my perl job that ended abruptly. Last monday, I started a new job as Perl Developer with a hint of Ruby. They are a bit reluctant to do ruby since most of the people there don’t know it… but thats ok. I understand that fear. So, I’ll be doing mostly perl and ruby when I can justify it I am not sure when i will do PHP next .. I will try to keep up with PHP and not go into a total PHP Coma.

Its a bit strange to be back in a huge company with their strict IT policies, procedures, forms, blah blah. But kinda nice in a way to have all that structure back. The past few jobs have been in tiny companies and i was basically IT, Helpdesk, Admin and programmer… and I was not beyond running to staples for office supplies.

Ruby in NY!

I went to NY for the Gotham City Ruby Conference, it was a blast. The topics were really interested and covered a wide variety of applications — Ruby is NOT JUST for Rails! Rails is cool.. but its ruby that gets me all excited..

Here’s some posts with notes about the conference from Bryan Helmkamp’s blog:

• Nick Sieger — JRuby: Ready for Prime Time
• Jay Phillips — Adhearsion
• Jeremy McAnally — Going Camping
• Paul Dix — Categorizing Documents in Ruby
• Trotter Cashion — Contexts, mocks, and stubs, oh my
• Jay Fields — Business Natural Language Ruby Systems

Yeah, I’m kinda lame.. posting his notes instead of my own

Thanks to all the GoRuCo Sponsors: Google, Indaba Music, StreetEasy, Obtiva and Engine Yard.

Looking forward to next year, I absolutely loved New York and can’t wait to go back!