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date: "2006-12-27T06:53:47Z"
title: Brief NovaRUG Notes
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<p>I got a chance to sneak out to last week's <a href="http://novarug.org/">NovaRUG</a>.  <a href="http://chadfowler.com/">Chad</a> was in
town for work, so he stopped by.  I also got a chance to talk to
<a href="http://richkilmer.blogs.com/">Rich</a> and <a href="http://tomcopeland.blogs.com/">Tom</a> as well.  </p>

<p>Rich inadvertently used his phone as a Wiimote-style projectile weapon.
Chad went and got all famous since the last time I saw him (at RubyConf
2004)!  Apparently writing a couple books and speaking all over the
world does that to you.  Who knew?  Anyway, I only had a little while to
catch up with him, but he dinged my for being lax on <a href="http://raggle.org/">Raggle</a>.
He'll be in town next month as well; maybe we'll have a bit more
time to hang out then.</p>

<p>I talked to Tom about <a href="http://selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a> and <a href="http://linux-vserver.org/">VServers</a>.  I'm using both
now, and he's interested in both for <a href="http://rubyforge.org/">RubyForge</a>.  The former as
another <acronym title='Source Code Management'>SCM</acronym> for people to use, and the latter as a way to provide
user shell access.  </p>