I find it encouraging that ThoughtWorks is selling Ruby on Rails expertise on their website. Althought that shouldn't come as a surprise since their chief scientist has come out of the Ruby closet already long ago...

What I'm curious about, though, is the sentence "ThoughtWorks employs some of the world's leading Ruby developers and committers to the Rails project" on the page. Now I might not be all up to speed on the Rails community's who's who, but I've been living under the assumption that none of the Rails committers are working for ThoughtWorks? Especially since the WorkingProfessionallyWithRails page in the Rails wiki lists only two TWers, neither of which are committers. Maybe they got "committer" and "contributor" mixed?

Whether or not you're interested in Identity 2.0, you owe yourself to invest a couple of minutes on seeing through this OSCON 2005 presentation by Dick Hardt from Sxip. It's not so much the message, it's the way Dick delivers the message. Using Lawrence Lessig's style of presentation.