Campfire Stories: April 23-27

This post was originally published on the Elabs blog, before Elabs and Varvet joined forces.

Better late than never, here’s last week’s edition of Campfire Stories.

Monday, April 23

dConstruct 2012

The new site for this year’s dConstruct conference looks great.

http://2012.dconstruct.org/

VIM Adventures

Learning VIM while playing a game. Lots of fun!

http://vim-adventures.com/

Adobe CS6 launched

We didn’t upgrade to CS5, so Jimmy and Johannes are very excited about getting a new version of Photoshop now. We’ll probably sign up for Creative Cloud.

http://www.adobe.com/special/cs6/launch-event-desktop.html

Nordic Ruby schedule

The schedule for our annual Ruby conference is now online. Lots of great sessions planned.

http://nordicruby.org/schedule

Tuesday, April 24

Turnip: a tasty Cucumber alternative?

Our friends at Thoughtbot wrote a blog post about Turnip, Jonas’ acceptance testing framework.

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/21494223079/turnip-a-tasty-cucumber-alternative

Elabs stickers

We’re getting new stickers and iPhone decals made.

http://www.stickermule.com

Wednesday, April 25

Type Connection

A typographic dating game.

http://www.typeconnection.com/

JavaScript plugin to create modal windows.

http://simplemodal.plasm.it/

Thursday, April 26

SDC speakers’ dinner

CJ, Jonas, and Joseph Wilk

CJ and Jonas chatting with Joseph Wilk at the SDC speakers’ dinner. Joseph will be giving a talk titled "Someone is wrong" at Nordic Ruby this year.

http://nordicruby.org/speakers

PHP: The Good Parts

Tom Hudson wrote a book about PHP.

http://twitter.com/#!/TomNomNom/status/195304317601849344

Rdio’s new site

Looks great. Wish they would launch their service in Sweden.

http://www.rdio.com/home/

Friday, April 27

racing dog