Howdy The Lone Star Ruby Conference, held Aug 26-28 in Austin, TX, is right around the corner, and is sure to be one of the best darn blame conferences you can attend this year. We have announced the conference hotel where you can hitch your horse and take your monthly bath while attending the conference. (Please, remember to take your monthly bath before showing up.) http://LoneStarRubyConf.com/hotel So, for all those traveling from one of the five other continents, you can book your room now! Also, early bird registration pricing ends August 1, so don't get caught with your britches down and have to pay more than you ought. This year we have topics on: * No SQL Databases * VoIP, SMS and IM * Application Deployment * Rails3, Sinatra and Padrino * Entrepreneurship Check out the schedule (you can get details by clicking on the titles) at http://lonestarrubyconf.com/schedule and sign up before early bird registration ends! Cookie is chompin at the bit to fire up the grill and make a mess of bar-b-que you won't forget. See you at LSRC! -- Jim Freeze Lone Star Ruby Conference http://LoneStarRubyConf.com