Leaving Reevoo

There's an interesting mixture of sadness and excitement whenever you leave a job, but I'm particularly feeling it as I prepare to move on from my current employer Reevoo. I've had the privilege of working with a solid team of truly excellent people:

• James Mead, the mastermind behind Mocha;
• Chris Roos, liberator of local information;
• Paul Battley, liberator of BBC programming;
• Luke Redpath, who is already busting out iPhone apps;
• Ben Sales and Craig Smith, bouldering supremos;
• Tom Lea, Joel Gluth, Louis Garman and Matt House, all equally awesome in their own ways.

... in black and white, as well in real life, an impressive collection of smart developers and engineers. Which made my decision all the more difficult, although I take solace in knowing that it won't be the last time I get the chance to work with these people - the Ruby community in London isn't too huge, after all!

Onwards and upwards

So what's next? Good question. I don't have another cosy full-time job to drop into, because I've decided to take the leap into self-employment. That's right - I'm going free range. Am I crazy, what with all the financial doom and gloom going around these days? Maybe. But - there's no time like the present.

Ruby Manor has sold out, and we're looking forward to seeing if our conference experiment has worked. After that we're almost at Christmas, and then the shiny face of 2009 will smile upon us. 2009 - we really are living in the future, aren't we.

In the not-too-distant future I'll have more to say about what I'm going to do next, but for the moment I'd just like to say that it's been an excellent experience working at Reevoo, and when I say 'Au Revoir' to my friends on Webber Street in mid December, I'll be wishing them all the best in the future.

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Ruby Manor is GO!

We've just make the tickets available for ruby-manor, and folks are already snapping them up. Most conferences offer a variety of different ticket types, giving you optional access to tutorials, expos, or parties. We've tried to fit in with this, by offering our own ticket classifications:

• Sith tickets - two of these are available sold out! There will be a Master and an Apprentice. No doubt the apprentice will eventually try and STRIKE THE MASTER DOWN.
• Ruby Manor CORE - Gives you access to unprecidented levels of opinionation. Only one left sold out too, but we added a new Manti-core ticket to balance it out!
• Enterprise - no learning allowed, as you'll only be given buzzword summaries of the presentations.

... and a bunch more. I suggest you sign up soon, before all the fun tickets are gone and you only get a shiny foil hat to protect you from the thought police.

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Defensio to the rescue

When I come back to interblah.net, I normally have a quick look at the index page to see if any new comments are awaiting my attention. And recently that's revealed a few interesting comments (thanks!), and hundreds of spam comments.

I deliberately didn't do anything clever to combat spam, but I got a bit sick of it today, so I've started sending comments to Defensio to stem the flow. The implementation was very simple (see github for details), and hopefully that'll stem the flow of links to naughty filth on my site.

Except for the links that I add, of course.

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