http://davidcrow.disqus.com/David Crow helping startups with product strategy, marketing, user experience design, and technology development.enTue, 10 Feb 2009 20:12:18 -0000http://davidcrow.ca/article/7076/meshu-schedule#comment-21175252<p>(and a jQuery JavaScript nerd, to boot!)</p>Pete FordeTue, 10 Feb 2009 20:12:18 -0000http://davidcrow.ca/article/7076/meshu-schedule#comment-21175251<p>Come on David, you know full well that I&amp;#039;m a dog&amp;#039;s breakfast Rubyist to begin with! I&amp;#039;m really a JavaScript nerd who hangs out with Ruby people a lot.</p>Pete FordeTue, 10 Feb 2009 20:10:53 -0000http://davidcrow.ca/article/7076/meshu-schedule#comment-21175250<p>Hey David - thanks for so much for posting. These speakers are wonderful and it&amp;#039;s all we can do to get the word out. Regarding Rails, just thought I&amp;#039;d mention that FreshBooks is actually a PHP shop :) Further to that, everyone speaking has been asked to take an agnostic approach to the material so the audience can gleen universal lessons, and while a handful of these folks come from the Rails community (Ezra and Ryan especially), they&amp;#039;ve both agreed there is more value in keeping the presentations accessible to all attendees and thereby *not* too platform specific. No doubt they will draw on their own experience, but not to the point of alientating folks. In the case of Pete (and Unspace is surely a Rails shop), he&amp;#039;s actually talking iphone development so it will be very iphone platform specific, but in the case of that presentation it was sort of the idea. Anyway...these were all folks we knew would bring it and that&amp;#039;s the important thing. thanks again for posting.</p>Mike McDermentTue, 10 Feb 2009 11:45:11 -0000