September 2006

Royal Jordanian and the Guava

After boarding the Royal Jordanian (RJ) plane heading for Amman, and while waiting for the take-off we were asked by the stewardess to hand in all what we have of, not knives, not nail clippers, not sprays, not cork screws, not shoes, but rather hand in all of our Guavas! Some people have boarded the plane with some guava...

Off to toot

I’m off to Amman, Jordan, to meet the team behind iToot.  We’ll be mostly talking RoR, the web, and whatever we’ll come up with. I first came to know itoot from their posting on jobs.rubynow where they announced a need for a RoRailer. We started corresponding back in April, but things didn’t materialize except in the last couple of...

Drumroll

I arrived at Amman’s (Queen Alia’s airport) at 8:00 PM. George & Karim were waiting there with a sign carrying, not my name, but rather “Ruby on Rails” – all in red . As they haven’t seen me in person, they figured out that a RoR sign will get them a real smile or a nice wave and it...