Technomancy how did that happen

Somehow my name has snuck on to the RubyConf agenda. I don't know how it happened; I guess I must have submitted a proposal that somebody thought was decent. Crazy.

Well now that it's hit me that I'm going to be flying home from the conference exactly one month from now I decided it might be a good time to start preparing the talk. Here's an abstract from the proposal to whet your appetite:

Tightening the Feedback Loop:
How to listen to what your code is telling you

Summary
This talk will cover various ways in which you can be better informed as to the state of your code through your tools. It will also cover the general principles of how to approach tool-making in such a way that you get the best level of feedback about the aspects of your code in which you are most concerned.
Bio
Phil Hagelberg (http://technomancy.us) is a dynamic language hacker who occasionally makes outlandish claims to be the greatest sword-fighter in the world. He has taken a solemn oath never to hack in a manually-memory-managed language again and has written enough Emacs extensions to kill a small horse—given the proper device drivers.

I've got slides that should get posted after the talk. What fun. There'll also be a demo of a new tool I'm working on that in a way is the culmination of a number of threads or common themes I've been brewing in my head and on my blog recently. Stay tuned.

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Daniel – 2007-10-08T17:46:58Z
Congratulations, Phil! That's very cool. I hope the presentation goes really well.
Halax Valgas – 2007-12-20T20:31:29Z
I don't know you, and haven't read any of your blog (yet). I followed a link here from the IE8 Acid2 announcement, where you expressed your personal hatred for Microsoft.





I think it's kinda funny that you'd be so down on Microsoft and their free browsers when you can't even make your own personal website work. If your sidebar were any longer, I would've thought that your site had no content at all.





Ironic.
Phil – 2008-01-05T11:13:02Z
Halax:

Clarification: I did not express hatred for Microsoft; I mentioned that what had been hatred has dulled to annoyance as the company has slid further into irrelevancy.

Anyway, it sounds like you're using Internet Explorer. I would have thought because of that you'd be used to seeing standards-compliant, correct sites render incorrectly. Get used to it.

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