How Ruby is Making Me a Stronger C# Developer and a Better Man (Darren Cauthon)

Darren Cauthon (@darrencauthon) will be joining us in January to talk about his experiences with Ruby and C#. Darren is a Kansas City native and is very active in the .NET community there. --- "There's a lot of talk of how great and superior Ruby is to, well... everything. But is it true? Should everyone switch to Ruby? Or is Ruby just for hipster programmers? I started to take a deeper look at Ruby last year, and found a lot to like. I also found a ton of ideas that I could directly apply to my C# day job. The purpose of this talk is to share what I've learned. I'll show some of the things that make Ruby so attractive to developers and how to achieve similar results in .Net. I'll also show some of the most popular Ruby tools and frameworks and their .Net counterparts. After this talk you'll not only understand and like Ruby, you'll also feel better about your chances with C# and .Net."