Musings

Satish Talim from the Pune Ruby User Group conducted an email interview with me about Ruby. I have the honour of being in company with people like Bruce Tate, James Edward Grey II and other true gurus. You can read it here Technorati Tags: interview, india, ruby, rubyonrails

UPDATE: I have disabled comments for this post, because I’m getting spammed with hundreds of messages on exactly this post. Feel free to comment somewhere else :-) Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) are slowly picking up steam in Zurich (and Switzerland) so it seems to be a good time to start a Ruby user group. Anyone that want’s to start this with me is invited on Thursday, 28.9.2006 in the evening to meet, eat, drink and chat about Ruby (and Rails). ...

After one public and two internal workshops, it’s time to announce the second public Ruby on Rails Workshop in Zurich, Switzerland. Details are on the webpage, here’s the management summary: Date: 27-29. September 2006 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Cost: CHF 1450.– Number of participants: maximum 6 Language: German or English This is a more of a workshop, than a frontal training and the participants will get a complete web application up and running. Inquire at . ...

Interesting read: On the implausibility of the explosives plot - an analysis of why the removal of shampoo bottles from planes is just a mad farce. And then some tips for budding terrorists and the proposed counter measures. Technorati Tags: bombs, terror

The good news first: I’m back from a week of vacation in Copenhagen where I had a chance to visit my 87 year old grandmother (who is in great shape), meet Henriette and her lovely family, show Copenhagen to my family. We were stopped in our travels by a lunch-box-mistaken-for-a-bomb on a train station, by a piece of left luggage on the airport and the going missing of a train-driver. All in all a really nice week My back’s back in shape - I have started the regularly scheduled fitness training again There’s a lot of work waiting to be done - both for clients and I have one or two ideas of my own. I’ll probably only be able to manage the clients projects though - too bad We have two new members in our house: Lucy and Kitty are sibling cats, just 12 weeks old and oh-so-cute. I have allergies against cat’s, but have been taking Schwarzkummelol / Albaracka Oil capsules for the last 3 months and I hardly feel any reaction to the cats (we’ve had the mother of the two cats as a frequent guest the last few weeks. Here’s hoping that this really helps against the allergies. Oh - and be warned - there might be cat content on this blog in the future. Florian is doing much better and has been transfered to a rehabilitation clinic Bad news: ...

Yesterday I visited my friend Florian. He had a shaved head and a slightly swollen face. His eyes were closed during most of my visit. He was neither asleep nor quite awake. Probably due to the multiple drugs he was taking at that time. But he recognized me and held my hand firmly, pressing it rhythmically. He had a brain tumor removed a couple of days earlier. Actually, his second brain tumor. He just turned 30 and his wife gave birth to their second child only a few weeks ago. We weren’t sure if he would make it, he was in coma until the day before I visited him. ...