Most importantly, my talk went very well. If Matz says writing Ruby in Ruby is a good idea, then it must be a good idea.
I got some good hacking time in with Nathaniel Talbott working on Enumerable and worked on getting RubyInline to work with the Windows one-click-installer with Daniel Berger, which hopefully he’ll have finished soon. Most of the hacking time was spent up in Evan Webb’s penthouse suite.
We hung out with some of the New York Ruby group who are working on expanding their group and gave them some hopefully useful tips. Both my presentation and Ryan’s were well done, and Ryan’s was incredibly well received with multiple occurances of spontaneous applause.
We ate twice at a lovely little Ethiopian place just a block up the street. On the way back once we were accosted (the behavior was rather confrontational ) by some Mormon missionaries.
