Velocity Conf knocked my socks off. This was my first O’Reilly conference and I can really see what the hub-bub is all about. Velocity was host to many top industry pioneers like the dudes from Etsy who created StatsD, Mitchell Hashimoto who works on Vagrant, and reps from Opera, Mozilla, and Google, among other big names.

After kicking off the month of March in Austin at SXSW with Patti and Bobby and then at MountainWest RubyConf with Ted for some UXDD goodness, we're heading to, well... our backyard.

That's right, we're supporting RubyNation for the third year in a row, and this time Pete Jackson will be presenting "Geospace your Rails Apps" to a sold out crowd of more than 250 Ruby enthusiasts.

The 2 track/2 day conference kicks off this Friday at the Sheraton in Reston, Virginia. Pete takes the stage at 3:40 pm on Friday afternoon:

Today and tomorrow, Intridea will have a presence at MADExpo (Mid Atlantic Developer Expo). Not only are we sponsoring the event but Pete Jackson, our Managing Director, will be giving a presentation on the geospatial web, entitled "Location Matters. The world of Geospatial web and mobile applications."

At this year's Lone Star Ruby Conference, Intrideans Brendan, Pradeep, and Adam presented a full-day training, "Ruby Intrigue", in which they walked through the construction of three separate applications: a web crawler, an Asteroids clone, and an SMS server.