[Ruby] memcached-like Ruby+Erlang implementation

[shane becker]

> An interview for the Rails Podcast, to be published next week. It  
> was honestly the most intellectual and philosophical discussion I  
> had all weekend.

i'm really excited to hear this one. i hadn't heard / seen any of the  
rubychicks website / controversy until dave thomas ridiculed it in  
his closing keynote.

i was talking with ryan (i think) about how its good to see a  
_better_ gender balance at railsconf than at some others. it seems  
that the more the front end the technology which is being focused on,  
the more women there are at the conf. so sxsw, for example, has waaay  
more women than any other conf i've been too. and b/c rails has quite  
a bit of front end focus, we see more women. that's awesome. but even  
there, its not actually gender *balance* just closer to it.

maybe we could do something as a group in seattle to get more women  
into ruby/rails. maybe some free training sessions for women only.  
kind like the one that dave thomas and crew do. a one day thing where  
we assume nothing. start at the beginning and crash course them  
through to a working rails app by the end of the day. we could rotate  
who's 'teaching' and have others roaming around to help one on one.

what do you think? anyone interested?

-shaners



--
And I kinda thought we all shared common threads in that we gravitated
here to challenge the conventions we've been fed by a culture that  
treats
(living, breathing, feeling) creatures like (biological) machines.
And if you buy that shit then how long 'till it's me who serves as  
your commodity?
Through (for example),
institutionalized violence and oppression of workers and women raped  
by sexism
(and how about native americans?).
Do you still insist on feigning indignance (aka: indignation) to reason?
To collective self-interest?
Tell you what- I'll call you on your shit,
Please call me on mine.

--Propagandhi