As luck would have it, a little over two weeks after I purchase my Macbook Pro, Apple bumps from Core Duo to the Core 2 Duo http://www.macmegasite.com/node/3237.
At RubyConf 2006 this past weekend, Laurent Sansonetti of Apple Computer gave a great presentation on Ruby OSA http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/ for manipulating Apple Events in Ruby.
Michael Granger presented his Linquistics library Ruby Linguistics for ruby that looks to be a lot of fun for Natural Language Processing with Ruby.
There were several other highlights, one of which for me was getting to meet other people working with this language and making a living doing so, and on that note I would regreat not mentioning Nathaniel Talbott and his presentation on “Open Classes, Open Companies”. See his web site at http://terralien.com/.
