A Good Week to Start a Blog
Happy Birthday to My Son, Arthur!
I've had this blog engine (Typo) set up for a couple of weeks now but I've been too busy working on some new initiatives in my life to actually post something. Now, I've had some success and I need to start posting in support of those.
What are the new initiatives? I've decided that I want to get mroe involved in two very different communities. By doing this, I'm hoping to grow myself in some specific ways.
The first community is the Ruby on Rails community. I've been a supporter of open source for a while. I'm one of the leading advocates and "go-to" guys on the subject at the Hanover. But in terms of actual participation, I've always just dabbled around the edges. Rails is so much fun though, that I've really made progress on my own site for the first time in years. I hope to leverage this enthusiasm to become a more involved participant.
My first success at that was being selected as a speaker at RailsConf 2006!. I'm going to be speaking about Domain Specific Languages as Rails Plugins. I'll describe more in a later post; but in short, I'll describe some implementation details and have a discussion about the value of DSL's as a unit of resuse.
The second community I want to get more involved in is my local community. I've announced my intention to run for a three year seat representing the Town of Holden on the Wachusett Regional School Committee. I've collected my signatures and I'll be turing them into the town office. Again, I'll be writing extensively on this in the future, why I'm running and what I would like to accomplish.
It sounds like a lot, but I've got this phobia against being bored!
Steve
