David A. Black is one of the more notable figures in the world of Ruby programming. I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know him over the years at numerous Ruby conferences and exchanges online.

He is currently offering Ruby training in Edison, NJ, September 14-17, 2009. If you are interested in Ruby training, I highly recommend him as a teacher.

However, I realize (as does David) that traveling to New Jersey for the training may be a bit of a hurdle.

I’ve been in contact with him about doing a training session in the Phoenix area, and he’s quite interested. It comes down to a matter of numbers: Are there enough people here interested in this?

The course being held in September is “Introduction to Ruby”. However, most of the Rubyists I know here would do better with an advanced course, and David can offer that as well. Of course, there may be people here who don’t currently know Ruby but would like to learn.

If you are interested in some form of Ruby or Rails training here in the Vally, please get in touch with me so I can sort out the level of interest and see about coordinating something.

I’d also like to hear what people think about general tech training here in the Valley: what’s good, bad, missing, whatever.