Railsday

So there were definately a few straggling comments on that last post. While I'm guessing that most of that is due to the unreliable flow of interesting content, I'm also going to guess that many of my readers have never heard of a new aggregator. The exception being Ben. Ben has trained his aggregator to follow him around the house. Anyway, get one. For those of you who consistently check friends blogs, you will be very, very happy.

And now for the main event...

Tomorrow, June 4th, will be the first ever Railsday. It will be an exposition of the forthcoming web application suite known as Ruby on Rails. (100% of my regular readers just found something better to do... seriously though, skip the nerd part and go down to the At Least Read This section). Participants have 24 hours to build the best, most complete, web based application from start to finish. Only sketches on napkins are permitted (of which I have dozens).

I'm going to start tonight at 10p.m. and work until I get tired, crash, and then proceed to spend all of Saturday programming. I'm excited. Not so much about the programming, but about being part of something new, an agile community of cutting-edge developers... oh, and the possibility of winning a PSP, iPod, and MacMini in one swoop.

I will be updating this post as I progress, like some day-long science experiment performed on myself and recorded for your enjoyment.

At Least Read This

The Ruby on Rails book has been prereleased due to incredibly high demand. I purchased a copy.

The neat thing is that by prereleasing it, they pretty much get hundreds of free editors to nit and pick and catch the mistakes for them. I think this is a splendid way to publish a book. Everyone wins.

Even more exciting, the author extended an invitation to illustrate his co-author for excerpts called "David says". I drew something up based on a photo. It looks like it is going to be published. Yippee!