At long last, Dave Thomas and Mike Clark are bringing the Pragmatic Rails Studio to the San Francisco Bay Area. The studio will be in Sunnyvale June 18-20, at the Sheraton right near Moffett Field.
I took one of the early Rails Studios when I was just learning about Ruby on Rails, just over a year ago when I was at EarthLink. I'd read AWDR and fiddled around a bit, but doing the studio was a huge help in getting it all to make sense. It's definitely worth the time, money, and effort to get there.
Oh yeah, I just realized the photo of me in the sidebar is actually me at the Rails Studio!