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Well folks, RailsConf ’08, is just about upon us. I’m heading out to Portland, are you? If so, let’s make contact. It’ll be great to meet everyone who’s been following Mack and supporting what we’re doing here.

I’m going to be leading a Birds of a Feather session Thursday night, “Rails Alternatives and You” from 7.30pm – 8.30pm in room D133. There are going to representatives of Merb and DataMapper there as well, so it should be a good time. Again, it’d be great to meet some of you.

On Friday during lunch at 12.35pm, I’ll be signing copies of the ‘Advanced Rails Recipes’ book at the Powell’s Book booth, along with some of the other authors. I think I’m more excited about this than anything else happening at the rest of the conference!

For those of you who have been to a RailsConf in the past, know it’s a great time. For those who haven’t, it’s a great time. Last year I got to meet a lot of great people, and this year I’m looking forward to meeting more. I hope you’ll be one of them.

See ya in Portland.

For those of you who haven’t yet switched to Mack (and why not?) the new Advanced Rails Recipes book is now shipping from the Pragmatic Programmers. The book features 84 recipes for build apps using Ruby on Rails. It just so happens that two of these recipes happen to be written by yours truly. That’s right, I’m now a published author.  

I suggest that everyone get yourself a copy of the book, read it top to bottom, then head on over to GitHub and incorporate some of what you’ve just learned into Mack.

Anyway, I just want to give a quick shout out to my boy Mike Clark who compiled and edited the book. He’s a great guy and he did a great job. Thanks Mike!