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The one where I share my thoughts and slides about my presentation at Ruby on Ales 2012.

Where I explain that Rubiverse isn’t dead, its just been sleeping for more than two years.

Watch as I demonstrate the Binary Lottery! Feel the excitement from MountainWest RubyConf 2008!

Just one little example of how MINASWAN is alive and well in the Ruby community.

Slides and code from a presentation I gave about a fantastical future where we didn’t use a computer language just because a giant corporation told us to.

My family almost died. It was scary. I took pictures.

I participate in a silly meme that ran through some tech blogs in 2008. Ugh.

Hard to believe I thought Ruby would ever really succeed on .NET.

A point-by-point rebuttal of criticism I received for thinking static languages don’t work.

The beginning of the end for me and the .NET community. I try to be fair and even-handed, but nobody cares about that when they think you are slaughtering their sacred cows.

The one where I attempt to impress Michael Coté by ranting on the internet being the way it is.

I am so impressed with myself for hacking RubyGems that I announce it to the world.

Ruby Blue is a great theme. If you absolutely have to Visual Studio and are unable to kill yourself, this will make it slightly less painful.

I slowly start to realize that Microsoft isn’t that interested in helping developers use Ruby on Rails.

Luke Melia and I do a Rails coding demo to mixed results. I decide ALT.NET is something worthwhile.

I convinced some people to look at Ruby, and then ScottGu ruins everything with ASP.NET MVC.

I met a lot of great people at the first ALT.NET Conference.

A wrap-up of my first day at the inaugural RailsConf. Apparently I was too busy to write about the other days.

Do you remember how excited you were when you first heard about Ruby.NET? No? Well, it was awesome.

I wasn’t on the Polymorphic Podcast, but I did provide some questions to be asked. Yay me.

TL;DR If you are using an integration database you suck and there is no hope for you.

Did you know that Ruby had a certain amount of thought leadership in 2006? This impressed me at the time.

A short summary of the presentations I gave there.

The one where I am frustrated by other developers not getting why Ruby is so awesome.

I started a Ruby User Group in Boise, Idaho.

The one where I lose all hope for the future and rant about it.

Wow, do you remember the first edition of this book? Seems so simple and quaint.

Have you read ‘Object Thinking’? No? Then put the internet down and read it now.

I ran Typo for a while. Seems like needless complexity now, but at the time it was so hawt!

Obligatory post where you show how to install Rails. Who didn’t do one of these?

This is where I attempt to prove my serious Rublog chops.

Oh man, back in the day Rublog was all the rage.

eRuby was an early attempt at getting web responses from Ruby.

I attempt to show that installing Ruby on shared hosting doesn’t have to suck. I think I failed.