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Get out your calendar, folks…

This September, I have a proposed itinerary for you telecommuting, Ruby-lovin’, Rails hackin’, caffeine-ingesting bedouins…

September 6, 2007 - Arrive in beautiful Austin, TX and join us for the Intro to Ruby and Rails Charity Workshop before the Lone Star Ruby Conference officially gets underway. We have a surprisingly strong lineup for this little pre-event I am putting together. It’s one more way that the Ruby community is paying back and I am super excited about it.

September 7-8, 2007 - Attend/speak/loiter at the Lone Star Ruby Conference. It’s going to be a great time. We’ve got the guys from ErrTheBlog (and ErrFree of course), the lead developer of RSpec, the author of more Rails plugins than you can shake a stick at, our man on the ground in Dallas who has pants that are helping to raise the number of women at technical conferences, and the multi-lingual and ever knowledgeable Glenn Vanderburg…to name a few…

Here’s a listing of the full speaker lineup. If you haven’t signed up yet, please make a point to register today!

September 9-13 - Hang out in Austin. Do some cafe computing. Drink a few margaritas. Take in the night life on 6th. Head out to Lake Travis. Take a hike in the Barton Creek Greenbelt. Etc.

September 14-16 - Attend one of the coolest outdoor music festivals in the country, the Austin City Limits (better known as “ACL”), which as per usual features a killer lineup this year, including Bjork, The Decemberists, The Killers, Joss Stone, Wilco, Spoon, Indigo Girls, etc. The full band listing is over here.

September 16-19 - Hop on a plane or two to cross the pond to Berlin for RailsConf Europe. That looks to be an amazing show over there.

Now, I reallize that this is only for the true jetsetters among you, but I thought I would put it out there.

Ruby Programmer (Prefer with depression or anxiety) for non-profit gig

Honestly, a depressed Ruby programmer may be hard to find.

If you’re downtown in the early evening (which I am this evening for the Austin on Rails meeting that is about to start) and you’re wanting to grab a jolt of caffeine, there is no better place to do it than at Little City on Congress Avenue. Primarily, this is because from 5-7PM, an Americano will run you $0.75. That’s cheaper than a fountain drink, a bottle of water, and just about anything else you might drink. Given the current printing press that is our Federal Government, you may be looking for ways to make your falling dollars go further soon. Espresso and water is not a very good hedge against inflation and it won’t keep your home price from falling, but it tastes pretty darn good!

Happy geoarb computing, bedouins!