Registration for RubyFringe closes in two days or when the 150 attendance slots sell out. There’s a lot about this conference that makes it different from many others, from its single track to the offbeat presentations to the after-hours events to “companion care” — that’s right, they’ve even got things for your non-techie significant other to do!
I’ll write more about RubyFringe in the days leading up to the event, but for now, I recommend checking out InfoQ’s article.
b5media, the company for whom I am Nerd Wrangler, is one of the finalists for the Canadian New Media Awards’ “Most Promising Company of the Year”. The announcement was made at the nextMEDIA conference, which took place this weekend in Banff.
We’re up against the esteemed competition, FileMobile and Viigo. According to the Canadian New Media Awards site, the winners will be announced at their gala in October.
My congratulations to my coworkers! I knew that working at b5 was going to be special.
Coming Soon to a Landfill Near You is the title of this photo, handed to me by my friend, Miss Fipi Lele:
Click the photo to see an even larger version.
It’s something to think about when disposing of your obsolete technology.
This one’s for all the math nerds…
Update: Matthew points out that Toothpaste for Dinner did a cartoon of this back in March:
That Merlin Mann, always bringin’ the funny: “Whenever I see WordPress’s ‘Kubrick’ theme, I think of a child who’s been kept in the same receiving blanket until she’s 14.”
Zoli Erdos says: “Eight years later web-based products still threaten to cannibalize Microsoft’s cash-cow, but they can no longer be ignored – largely because of Google and Zoho which now offer viable alternatives to users formerly ‘stuck’ with Microsoft’s products. A costly debate, indeed.”
Mathew Ingram, after reading the Wall Street Journal’s article Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft’s Coming Handover, suggests that Microsoft killed their future for the present by killing NetDocs, their web-based office apps suite so as not to cannibalize their cash cow, Microsoft Office.