Arrived in London yesterday after ~13 hours of flying from Portland to
Chicago to London. It seems that sleeping on planes (or trains) is not
something that my body does well⦠so I am pretty tired. That mixed
with general jet lag due to an eight hour time zone change⦠my body is
feeling pretty confused. In fact, I am typing this from my hotel lobby
at 5am.
Yesterday, I was wandering around London, seeking a new UK/US power
adapter (thought I blew the one that I brought⦠long story) and was
taking a
picture, when I
heard a familiar voice say, āRobby?ā Go figure⦠travel across the
world and some Canadian (david goodlad)
spots you in downtown London. He was walking with Luke
Redpath and Jarkko
Laine to
PizzaOnRails. Itās a good thing that I
bumped into them because I thought it was in the complete opposite
direction!
Here are a few pictures that I snappedā¦
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The pictures that I took at the pizza & beer party didnāt come out so
well⦠but here is one of James Adam. I was
really looking forward to getting to spend some time with him again.
Weāre both speaking at the Ruby on Rails
Seminar in California in a few weeks
as well. Thatāll make four conferences in six months that weāve both
been to together. :-)
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Thanks again to everyone who has sent me links to veggie-friendly places
to eat at in London.
Quotes from RailsConf Europe
The only one worth mentioning so far wasā¦
āThis is definitely the first time that I have eaten pizza while
walking in the rain.ā -drblack
- The RadRails guys are up to no good. Kyle
Shank gave us a quick overview of a Rails project that they are
working on called HedgeHog. The project is definitely something that
I'll be looking forward to trying when it's available. :-)
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- Everybody is extremely *busy* with client work. By the way, [we are
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hiring](http://www.planetargon.com/jobs.html).
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- A Dublin Ruby User Group is in the works... would they be called
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DRUG? ;-)
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- Everybody is really excited about
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[BDD](http://behaviour-driven.org/)!
Iāll try to post entries throughout the day and will be taking lots of
notes today.
If youāre in London for RailsConf Europe, stop by #railsconf on
freenode.
Cheers!