Integral Impressions

I started the SD Bloggers meet up to create a place where local bloggers could interact and network with like minded individuals. Never did I image such a large group of passionate new media folks would call the group their own.

MerbCamp, the first official gathering for the Merb programming community, is October 11th and 12th at UCSD.
Merb is a new programming language that is the successor to Rails in many ways due to its speed and agility.

After hanging out and networking with some great people these last few days at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and the San Diego Tweetup at the Pearl in Point Loma, I was refreshed by the frequent recurrence of one simple question: “What are you working on?”
Certainly, asking others what they do is...

What is it?
Facebook Connect is a new service for developers that lets you do three important things:
## Offer users an option to signup and login with their Facebook ID instead of creating yet another login.
## Enable users to see which friends on Facebook are signed up for your service.