Well, the votes are in and thus I now have a presentation topic for
Victoria Code Camp. Thanks to all of you who responded to my earlier
call for votes by commenting, E-mailing, stalking, and sexually harassing!! We now have a clear winner in this contest and that far and away was:
MAKING FUN OF DONALD BELCHAM!!!Unfortunately this idea, like
many others of mine, proved to be a little too brilliant for its own good. Once the other Code Camp presenters got wind of this, all of a sudden
everyone's presentation was about heckling Donald. Readers of this blog know that I don't think you can
ever mock Donald
too much. However, organizer
Nolan Zak felt that this was a little overboard and thus forebade *everyone* from doing this presentation, including yours truly*.
The second place presentation topic was Ruby, so that is *half* of what I am doing at Vic Code Camp. That's right - because Victoria was both good enough to invite me out and stupid enough to give me extra time to talk, I will be doing a second talk for free** in the session immediately after Ruby:
Ruby on Rails - it's not just for free-loving hippies anymore
At last, a shot at earning the respect of your peers! A chance to get your parents to stop calling you a failure! A sure-fire way to score at the clubs!! Ruby on Rails can make it *all* happen for you. Believe it or not, RoR is no longer exclusive to granola-making commune dwellers; in fact, all the cool kids are doing it! And don't *you* want to be cool? Find out what the heck all the popular people are talking about; join Justice Gray for an introduction to the web framework that finally lets *you* wave your nose in the air like a pretentious elitist!
Trust me, if the Ruby presentation is over-the-top
chair-throwing liquid excitement, then this presentation is like liquid excitement's dirty, sexy second cousin. And like Donald says, what Victorian doesn't lust after their dirty second cousin?
*likely so he could steal the topic for himself, but hey, he's the organizer
**yes, they're all "free", but I normally bring a donations hat - this time I'll leave it behind