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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Thanks Dan, great point. Wish I hadn’t posted this message from my
work email though haha! (The walls have ears!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>I have also noticed that people tend to hide during the
conferences, which is a real shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>I would love to eventually work in a Rails environment, but I also
the enterprise environment which gives me plenty of challenges, and when Rails
is up to it, I’m sure my company.. and even our customers will be happy to use
it. Microsoft, I’m sure would be sceptical, but subject to one of their rigorous
QA sessions I’m sure the software would be almost faultless! .. Anyway that’s coming
off the subject!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>I will certainly take what you have said on board and have a good
think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Hope to see you at the Pizza doo before hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>Tom Medhurst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>
chat-bounces@lrug.org [mailto:chat-bounces@lrug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan
Webb<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 15 August 2006 11:18<br>
<b>To:</b> London Ruby Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [LRUG] Pizza on Rails and the big LonConf<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In terms of justification of the entrance price, I'd roll
out the same excuse I always do for going to conferences: The contacts
you can make are invaluable and can really help your career. In the case
of RailsConf, if you'd like to stop working for Microsoft (I used to do work
for Microsoft...what company?) and get a Ruby/Rails based job then they'll be
no better place to meet your next employer. Over the past year I've been
to a fair few confernences and the contacts I've made have made me wonder why I
didn't fork out forth them before. <br>
<br>
This of course only works if you actually talk to the other attendees.
Ive seen lots of people at conferences hiding behind their laptops which is
completely pointless.<br clear=all>
<br>
-- <br>
Dan Webb<br>
<a href="http://www.danwebb.net">http://www.danwebb.net</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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