Mettaprogramming Super Rocket Dinosaur Fun Monkeys!
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I'm John Metta, a programmer, a hydrologist, an anthropologist, and an all around friendly guy (except when I have to program in Visual Basic… <shudder>… it just makes my inside bits go all wonky! Like when eating sauerkraut)
I wanted to learn Ruby, and I like doing things right, and doing them as a team, so I started a local Ruby Users Group!
Scheduling happy hour is a chore no more! Now you can have your beer, and learn salsa dancing too! It’s a free community calendar for The Gorge!
I sometimes play with [rediviva] magazine for fun, and work on the crazy ideas we come up with like “hey, let’s build a huge unwieldy public events system!
It’s not Shakespeare, but you at least get SOMETHING when one million monkeys type all day on one million iPhones!
Okay, first things first: I wrote this article on August 25th. That’s important.1
Now the disclaimer: I woke up on August 26th and found out that I won an iPad from Hover.
Now the clarity: I don’t get paid to blog. I’ve never been shy about writing articles about software and expecting nothing in return. I’ve written posts about desktop software such as Scrivener, web apps such as Posterous, and even web-based “service-like” companies such as Iterasi. I’ve even written about how amazing the Microsoft Visual Studio system is… and I freakin’ …
