Our local Ruby Meetup lost it's meeting place at the last minute this week and we ended up combining with the Sacramento Web Standards Group at the The Urban Hive.
I heard a well-prepared talk from Mark Aplet and Andy Ford on the topic of Responsive Web Design. It definitely fell outside my normal discussion topics -- like Ruby, Rails, TDD, etc. I felt strangely invigorated and refreshed when I left.
That feeling caused me to reflect on the Pragmatic Thinking And Learning book by Andy Hunt I've been reading. He points out that change stirs creativity.
Part of it was the space: Urban Hive oozes creativity.
Part of it was the topic: I have a huge appreciation for beautiful things, especially web apps.
Part of it was the people: front-end developers and designers are just different enough from programmers. They dress differently, speak differently, use different tools, think differently about problems. And yet they do work so very closely related to traditional developers. It upsets something in my brain in a good way.
I should get out more.
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