Off to a Ruby Usergroup tonight
I'm off to a Ruby usergroup in about half an hour to see how they do things - I am really enjoying stretching my legs in the other tech communities and seeing what they do.
So far I've come to the conclusion none of the communities are as mature as the Microsoft community, they seem to come and go as the "next cool thing" is established.
Some might say that's because the OSS world move faster and the people move with it whilst the Microsoft world is much larger and slower to change but I am not sure I agree with that.
Anyway - Ruby tonight and a session on REST which as far as I can see is qhat you and I call URL's with querystring parameters but without the question mark or web services. (Rather REST solves a problem which doesn't exist - how do we send structured data to and from remote points with HTTP). Hopefully I've misunderstood what REST is and the session this evening will put me right, I doubt it though ;-)
This is the second meeting of the North West Ruby Users Group.
In addition to the REST session there's going to be a talk on "Women in Tecnology" which I'm really looking forward to - I'm lucky if I get a single woman (i.e. more than one, not a unmarried woman) to show up for the .NET usergroups and I'm pretty sure it's not my personality!