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Readers of this blog may also be interested in the series of articles I post at the PurpleBlog. The latest entry is called How to Spot a Good Instructor and, if you read between the lines a bit, offers insight into why I started Purple Workshops in the first place. Longtime readers already know that from time to time, Brian and I offered public 1- or 2-day workshops. Like this blog, the workshops reflected our intent on empowering those new to Ruby and to Rails. I hope you’ll peruse the public workshops we have coming this fall and join us for one of them!

We’ll continue to post here on Softies all of the same kinds of articles, tips, and opinions that we’ve always written here. The PurpleBlog is for topics that wouldn’t necessarily fit here, and reflects the work I’m doing over there.

By the way, comments are not enabled on the PurpleBlog; use twitter to ask questions or provide feedback instead. It’s another one of my experiments as I try to find better ways to answer questions and receive constructive feedback.

• September 12: REST 101 and Best Practices (part of the WindyCityRails conference)
• October 17: Essential Javascript with jQuery
• October 24: Rails for Everyone