The registration process for RubyConf 2007 is now open! The conference is due to be held at the Omni Charlotte Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina in the United States between November 2 - 4 (Friday through Sunday). The official site hasn't been updated yet (as of Friday September 7) but the registration form is available here. Tickets are $250.

I know there's going to be some controversy around this clever piece of code by Jay Phillips. He's developed "Superators", a library that finally makes it easy to create new operators within Ruby that look like line noise. Always wanted a "-~+~-" or "===~-+~++" operator? Now it's within your grasp! As Aleks Clark says: "Job security and spiffy DSL construction in one neat package."

You might recall, a few short months ago, that Dr. Nic built and released a site called MyConfPlan. Its prime objective was to enable RailsConf 2007 visitors to easily plan their schedules, although it had support for other events too. Dr. Nic has now put the site up for sale on eBay, and is donating all of the proceeds to charity as part of his pledge to donate to charity for RailsConf Europe. The auction ends in the next couple of days and is already at $470 Australian dollars (about $42 $386 US Dollars).

Remember the infamous "Ruby on Rails Vs" videos by the guys at RailsEnvy.com that were such a hit at RailsConf? Well they're back with two more..

Back in August 2006, Satish Talim began a course of free Ruby lessons. Over 100 people signed up and found them useful. The success of the program even led to Satish founding the RubyLearning.com site, a great Ruby resource for newcomers to the language. Satish has just let me know that he's decided to run the course again this year, so if you're a Ruby newbie, head over to Satish's latest blog post where he explains what the lessons are, what you'll get out of it, and how the system works. Lessons start from this coming Monday, 27th August.