Robert Evans

I was looking forward to going to Ruby Fringe but some personal things have come up and I will not be able to attend. Seeing how they don’t do any type of refunds, I’m looking to sell my ticket. If you are interested either leave me a comment for send me an email (email on the contact page).

So, I’ve ignored this blog for a while. I call it being too busy and what little time I have, I’m not really wanting to spend it on the computer. I’m already on it 18+ hours a day now – and yes everyday.

The nature of being slammed is due to starting my own business. The first week into it, I was worried I wouldn’t get anything. The second week I was slammed. Today, I have so much work that I have turned down almost a dozen projects this month alone.

Anyways, this is more of a “hey, I’m alive” post for my 180 something RSS readers out there. Don’t delete this feed because I posted, I promise not to do much more that in the near future. ;) If you got a moment, drop by my site and say hi. If you are interested in Ruby, Rails, Merb, PHP, JavaScript, or Objective-C work, let me know. I’m looking to bring aboard a person or two for some pretty cool work.

That’s about all I got for now. Even if you aren’t looking for work right now, drop by, say hi. I’ll be looking for some beta testers as well shortly for a few new apps I have coming out. Alright, back to hibernation, cheers!

Go Chargers!

In a typical Matz style, a new release of ruby has been released on Christmas. Ruby 1.9, the development version (read, not for production yet) is out. Have a merry Christmas!

Have you been interested in learning Ruby, but haven’t found the best resource to do so, or are not sure where to start? Well, a friend of mine, Satish Talim, asked me to announce his third class, Learning Ruby Programming.

This course is instructed by Satish, for free! it’s open to anyone and begins January 7th, 2008. The syllabus is available online and in several languages.

To sign up and join this class (last class had over 500 students), head on over and register. This is a great opportunity to learn Ruby, with an excellent and knowledgeable instructor, all for free.