Michael and I are at RailsConf this week and joined a panel with our podcasting and screencasting colleagues in the Rails community. See our combined slides for some great tidbits and behind-the-scenes information.

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Mike Clark, primary author of the new Pragmatic Programmers book Advanced Rails Recipes, will be holding a book signing meet-and-greet at RailsConf 2008 in Portland OR, this Friday. It will be at the Powell’s Books booth during the 12:30 lunch break.

Both Michael and I contributed recipes to the book and one or both of us plan on being at the signing for a little while. Come on by if you are at the conference and say hello!

Besides the birds-of-a-feather (BOF) meetup at RailsConf 2008 that Michael recently blogged about, we will now also be doing a panel about podcasting and screencasting with our podcasting colleagues: Geoffrey Grosenbach of the Ruby on Rails podcast, Ryan Bates of Railscasts, and Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy.

This talk will be at 4:25pm on Friday, May 30th. We’ll be talking about the nuts and bolts of podcasting and screencasting and getting things warmed up for the BOF general discussion. Come join us if you are in Portland for RailsConf 2008!

While I hold down the development cave this week with a broken foot (long story), Michael is representing us at Web 2.0 in San Francisco this week. If you are there, look him up!

InformationWeek did a quick interview with Michael to ask about Ruby on Rails. Besides that blog post, there is a YouTube video of Michael talking about both Ruby on Rails and what we are doing at BuildingWebApps.com as well the bigger story behind Collective Knowledge Works, Inc.

Digg the interview if you like.

Michael and I will be speaking at this month’s San Francisco Ruby Meetup on March 25th. We’ll be talking about BuildingWebApps.com, why we are building it, how we are building it, and hopefully, get some feedback from the audience around the question: “What does the the web development community, particularly Ruby and Rails practitioners, need in a resource and teaching site such as our own?”

If you are one of the first couple of people who come to the meeting and mention this post to me (personally), you can get one of our collectible hats.

As promised, here is one of my occasional travel updates for those interested in meeting in person.

Next week, Michael and Christopher will be in San Francisco hosting our Rails Quick Start seminar on February 20th – 21st, 2008. We still have limited room left if you’d like to attend and get up to speed on Rails!

Christopher will be in Miami starting February 27th – March 1st, 2008 for the Future of Web Apps conference. He’ll likely be speaking about BuildingWebApps.com at BarCampMiami on the 28th.

Michael and Christopher will be at SXSW (South-by-Southwest) Interactive March 7th-11th, 2008 in Austin, TX.

We’d love to meet BuildingWebApps.com visitors or Learning Rails listeners. Drop us a line or catch us in person at any of the above events!

From time to time, Michael and I will be attending various industry events, conferences, seminars, and social gatherings. We would very much enjoy meeting people face to face and chat about the LearningRails.com podcast, our Rails Quick Start seminars, feedback on BuildingWebApps.com, or any of the latest Ruby on Rails or technology tidbits.

I will post our travel plans in this blog from time to time if you want to track us down.

This week, both Michael and I will be at the Web Guild’s Future of Web Apps talk on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008, in Mountain View, California at Google.

Michael will also be attending 37Signal’s SEED Conference in Chicago, on January 18th, 2008.

Don’t hesitate to say hello!

-chris