conferences

Originally published after the 2023 Friendly.rb conference in Romania, this is an archival account of that talk. At the Friendly.rb conference in Romania, I explored an experimental blend of Ruby and the Lisp family, implemented here through Clojure. This journey was more about embracing the spirit of experimentation …

Almost five years since the last post about How to Web [0] - wow, that's a large slice of the space-time continuum. I recall I almost started this blog for stuff like this, good memories [1]. Archive note (2015): This is a contemporaneous conference diary; links, organizations, and social-media handles are preserved as …

Editor’s note (2026): This is a contemporaneous conference report from 2010. Product names, prices, hosting sites, terminology, and feature comparisons below describe that moment and are not current purchasing guidance. Java EE later became Jakarta EE. CodePlex—not SourceForge—was Microsoft’s separate forge, and Microsoft …

Archive note (2026): The opening paragraph contains the corrupt fragment I’vevolatile and utopic place most of the time.; it cannot be reconstructed safely and is left untouched pending an original source or backup. Sadly, today I’ve arrived a bit late, where "a bit" means a lot; I’vevolatile and utopic place most of the …