The Washington Business Journal interviews Main Street Bank exec Jeff Dick about his AirBanking initiative. AirBanking mixes online banking, blogging and social media to attract young professionals. David Keener is the architect and social media expert assisting Main Street Bank with their strategies.
Jeff Casimir’s Educational Talk
I just finished editing and uploading Jeff Casimir’s top-rated education talk, “How to Teach Anything to Anybody, Even Your Dev Team.” The talk is now available online at rubynation.blip.tv. Check it out now!
DevIgnition 2010 is Sold Out!
It’s official. The DevIgnition 2010 conference is sold out. It only took 12 days for the event to sell out. You can still sign up for the waiting list, though. You might still get a ticket if other attendees cancel out.
RailsConf 2011 in Baltimore Again
If you haven’t heard the news, RailsConf 2011 will be held in Baltimore, MD from May 16-19, 2011. This will be its second year in Baltimore.
NOVARUG 50th Meeting
The Northern Virginia Ruby Users Group (NOVARUG) is hosting its 50th meeting tonight. David Keener will be one of the speakers at the event, and his topic will be “Web Services Specification.”
DevIgnition Tickets Are Going Fast
DevIgnition tickets are going quickly. Tickets have only been available for 4 days, and we’re about one-third sold out already. So get you ticket soon because they’ll probably all be gone within a week.
Attended NIC-U Mini-Conference
The NIC-U mini-conference, hosted by Near Infinity and organized by my friend, Gray Herter, was a great success today. They had talks on HTML 5, Rails 3.0, the Sproutcore JavaScript library and Android development, plus lightning talks. A truly fun event, augmented by some awesome food (Uncle Julio’s Mexican Restaurant catered the dinner).
Announcing DevIgnition
I’m one of the organizers of the new DevIgnition Conference, which will be held December 3, 2010 at the Oracle building in Reston, VA. Tickets will be released to prospective attendees on Monday, October 18th.
MetroStar on SunnyConf
Here’s a very nice write-up from MetroStar Systems regarding my latest speaking engagement at SunnyConf in Phoenix, AZ.
Note: The link has been removed because the relevant blog entry is no longer available.
Rubyology Interview
David Keener was just interviewed by Chris Matthieu and Jason Goecke for Episode 92 of the Rubyology podcast. The interview was about Facebook, Ruby on Rails and Dave’s upcoming talk at SunnyConf later this month. Check out the podcast!