At a recent Central Region Evangelism offsite meeting, we did something fun. The first morning was setup as a skills training day. The skill? Improv! We hired Chris Miller from LifePlays to work with the group on improv as a communications and collaboration technique. I learned a lot from it and our whole team is working together better as a result. I blogged the experience on my blog at And We Might Even Improv ......
I was just on a cool webcast called the .NET Coffee Break Show. I did a short show on getting started with IronRuby and Silverlight. Because the show is supposed to be just 30 minutes or so, I didn't get into my usual preaching about the Ruby programming language or why people should use a dynamic language. Instead I just stated the fact that I really like Ruby and I really like Silverlight and I especially like the combination of the two. I've got a walk through on getting started with IronRuby ......