My good friend Roy is hitting the big time with his awesome noteworthy iphone app.

For those of yo who don't know noteworthy uses the power of last.fm to discover new artists and remember ones you've heard and loved.

Don't forget us little people when your a iphone legend Roy.

I'll be speaking at this month's polyglot programmers meeting in Wheaton.

I'll be giving a 60-120 minute talk on HAML, SASS and tenplate. details below...

Haml/Sass/Tenplate
Take your RAILS app to the next level by cleaning up your views with HAML, simplifying your CSS with SASS, and enforcing good POSH/Design habits with tenplate.

Elevate your markup with HAML.
Take a look at this clean, refreshing alternative to ERB's.

Simplify your markup - no more pesky closing tags or poorly nested HTML. Make using "end" a vague memory. And gaze in wonder as you view the perfect
whitespace and indentation in your apps source.

Boost your presentation with SASS.
Like CSS on steroids SASS provides you with CSS variables, math and "mixins" allowing you to create shortcuts for commonly used rules.

Write easy to read SASS on the server side yet render compressed, optimized CSS to the client!

Bring it all together with tenplate
Add a baseline typographical grid to your site.

Create a EM based layout with a dynamic grid system.

Add custom form helpers and basic site variables.

Google has announced support for "rich snippets", basically they've added microformat support to seaarch results allowing users at a glance views of hReviews, hCards, and more.

This is a great step toward the open web, yelp is already using hReview, and yahoo has supported microformats for a while now.

It's experimental, so you need to get google to add your site - but i can see this snowballing in a positive direction.