May 9, 2007

What's the best way to learn Ruby and Rails? Meetups? Extended user group meetings? Small study groups? Online chat forums for people geographically remote?

We had a good session at last night's May meeting of Boston Ruby - on Hackety Hack.

I expect there will be video from the session at some point in the future. It was a terrific group of attendees with varied interests. I jotted a few of my thoughts on Hackety Hack and education at the talkety talk site along with what I see as the key question in the future:

What can be done to help encourage and support more of these discussions - between educators, Rubyists, and learning activists - in the future?

To organize my part in the meeting, I showed some slides which I created with a new program I wrote in Ruby and Hackety Hack. The program builds slides, as connected HTML files, from an input file. Details will be available at a new website I'm creating this program, which I call SlideySlide.

My daughter is at it again - perhaps anticipating the Hackety Hack international roll-out.