This past Wednesday we held the July Northern VA Ruby Users Group. We started off with two short talks, first by Patrick Reagan on two mocking libraries for Ruby (Flexmock and Mocha), the second was on Haml and Sass by Devin Mullins. For the final hour of the meeting, Matt Scilipoti spoke about using Rails with legacy databases.
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My friend Dave is was looking to get an iPhone now that his Treo died. I already have AT&T service and I’d love to upgrade to an iPhone as well. Being an old AT&T Wireless customer from before they were purchased by Cingular and renamed (and now back to the old name) does not appear to be an asset. I’ve had the service before I was married, consequently if I’m going to upgrade my phone, consolidating my service with my wife’s through AT&T’s family plan would probably be best for us.
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Last week, I was fortunate enough to be one of the few folks who attended the Northern VA IGDA meeting where Paul Barnett spoke to us about desire. Specifically what you can and cannot control to influence your customers into buying your product (in his case a subscription to a MMORPG). That is, to make them desire your product.
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