You know those people who manage to pull off messy? The ones who are
rumpled, always a bit late, who stand too close to you and hold your
hand for just a little too long. And yet you just can't help but like
'em.

That's Ruby, at least for me. In this talk, I'll try to convince you
that all the messiness is what makes Ruby such a special language.
Come and wallow :)

Dave Thomas likes to fly single-engine airplanes and pays for his habit by finding elegant solutions to difficult problems, consulting in areas as diverse as aerospace, banking, financial services, telecommunications, travel and transport, and the Internet. Before moving to the US in 1994, Dave founded an ISO9001-certified English software company that delivered sophisticated, custom software projects throughout the world.

A fun romp through some interesting non-ruby topics.

Jim Weirich is the Chief Scientist for EdgeCase LLC, a Rails development firm located in Columbus Ohio. Jim has over twenty-five years of experience in software development. He has worked with real-time data systems for testing jet engines, networking software for information systems, and image processing software for the financial industry. Jim is active in the Ruby community and has contributed to several Ruby projects, including the Rake build system and the RubyGems package software.

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