Of all the speakers I've met at CUSEC, my favourite is Zed Shaw. His talk was honest, fun and (for me) life-changing. But that's not why he's my favourite speaker. CUSEC has lots of amazing speakers. He's my favourite because he's so honest and puts up with the flak he gets because of it. Granted, he's not always the most diplomatic character online, but his views represent mine perfectly when it comes to online community fiascoes that keep cropping up.

Recently, we had the whole charade of Matt Amionetti's porn presentation blow up and spew out all over blogs and social news sites. This happens all. the. time. And I'm sick of it.

It's one of the reasons I deleted all social news sites from google reader. The other is Zed's ZSFA character. He's retired it now but the point seems to have been lost on pretty much everyone. People only seem to listen to people who scream loudly and often. People that are outraged. Outraged I say! Scala can't be faster then Ruby!? If Ruby isn't fast enough for you, you're doing it wrong!

Whatever. I'm out. Bye.

I've started reading Dive Into Python. I went through the Django book and I'm starting a Django project. Seems like the Python folks can get their act together without the huge amount of drama in the Ruby community. Yes, Ruby. For a long time I stuck around writing Ruby while avoiding Rails, internalizing the "Rails is not Ruby" argument, but I'm through. The drama is just inescapable so now I'm just ignoring anything Ruby-related. Sorry Ruby. It was good times but Python is a perfectly acceptable substitute. I'll check back in in maybe a year or two. Maybe Rails Bridge will have reversed the trend by then. I hope they do.