Cascadia Ruby Conf schedule; giveaway; registration deadline

Hello dear friends! You’ve heard about Cascadia Ruby Conf, right? It’s
a little regional conf we’re doing in Seattle in a couple of weeks.
We’ve nailed down all of our speakers, and put together a tentative
schedule. Here’s what it looks like, and you can go to the site
(http://cascadiarubyconf.com) to see more details on the talks.

Friday (July 29th)

09:45 - Jim Remsik - 60 to 0 MPH in 2.5 Seconds: A Retrospective
10:30 - Haris Amin - The Enumerable Module or How I fell in Love with
Ruby
11:15 - Corey D. - Shipping at the Speed of Life
12:00 - Dylan S. - David and Goliath, Ruby and the Enterprise
01:45 - Mando Escamilla - How Community Saved My Life
02:30 - KEYNOTE - John B.
03:45 - Lightning Talks
05:00 - Rich Kilmer - It’s a Surprise

Saturday (July 30th)

09:45 - Avdi G. - Confident Code
10:30 - Gary Bernhardt - The Unix Chainsaw
11:15 - Ian D. - Playfulness at Work: a Real Serious Message™
with Ruby as the Medium
12:00 - Aja Hammerly - Powerful (but Easy) Data Visualization with the
Graph Gem
01:45 - Ryan D. - Mystery Talk
02:30 - KEYNOTE - Chad F.
03:45 - Lightning Talks
05:00 - Geoffrey Grosenbach - Code and Creativity

Note that we may move some talks around here and there, but that’s how
things look now! Excited? We are! If you haven’t registered yet, let
me give you some incentive. Anybody who is registered by 5pm Pacific
today is entered to win some really great prizes:

4x 1-year GitHub Small accounts
3x 1-year PeepCode Unlimited subscriptions
3x 1-year Papertrail 2gb/month accounts

Thanks a bunch to GitHub, PeepCode, and Papertrail for donating these
great prizes! Like I said before, get yourself registered by 5pm today
to enter! http://cascadiarubyconf.com/register

As a final note, July 25th is the last day to register, so make sure
you get your ticket by then. Keep your eyes on @cascadiaruby for more
updates as we have 'em!

Love,
Ben and Shane
http://cascadiarubyconf.com