This is a particularly big disappointment for me: Not only was I scheduled to speak at the London event, but there were to be talks on CoffeeScript in all four

This is a particularly big disappointment for me: Not only was I scheduled to speak at the London event, but there were to be talks on CoffeeScript in all four locations. While CoffeeScript talks have become de rigeur at Ruby/Rails events, Dev Days presented an opportunity to bring the language to a wider developer community. Plus, the talks were going to deal with more advanced topics than the usual "Here's why you should learn CoffeeScript." My talk was cheekily entitled "CoffeeScript: The Only Language You'll Ever Need"; I was planning to talk about tricks and tools for using CoffeeScript in all walks of life. Of course, my sympathies go out to the Dev Days planners; this must have been a very hard decision for them, and an understandable one. Consider me RSVP'd for Dev Days 2012.