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Feedburner RSS Feed Headliner

CobyR — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:23:04 +0000

Playing with feedburner’s options.

Lightning Talks – Day 1 from Mountain West Ruby Conference @mwrc

CobyR — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:02:53 +0000

Playing with the embed option on the confreaks video player. I just overrode the height and width so that it would fit nicely on my blog.

http://budurl.com/8f6w

Clearing your DNS cache on OS X

CobyR — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:29:04 +0000

To clear the DNS cache on Mac OS X 10.5 use:

dscacheutil -flushdnscache

on 10.4 and earlier try:

lookupd -flushdnscache

Needed this just now as I was setting up the new sub-domain for Goruco 2009 Confreaks site.

Dan Yoder’s (@dyoder) LA Ruby Conf 2009 Presentation

CobyR — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:20:44 +0000

All of the LA Ruby Conf 2009 Videos are now available online.

It has taken a while to actually get to processing them, but it didn’t take long once I was able to focus on it and get them done (this past weekend).

Feel free to post any comments about this video below.

acts_as_conference

CobyR — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:03:48 +0000

I should be in Orlando Florida right now, helping record acts_as_conference.

ATTi is a Platinum sponsor for this conference and one of my Sr. Engineers, Lori Holden will be presenting on ActiveORM, part of the merb + rails => Rails 3 project.

Instead I spent the day doing an internal web-cast of our (ATTi) all hands meeting. Using technology and skills I primarily aquired while building out Confreaks.

Carl Youngblood my partner and Brad Midgley our as needed hired hand are actively working in Florida to post process what was recorded today and to prepare for tomorrow. I regret that I was unable to be there, but we (that’s the corporate we again) had a major system upgrade scheduled for this weekend that I could not skip out on. As it turns out we had to push the release off a little in order to keep certain partner agreements. Regardless we have work to do this weekend to get things wrapped up for the full launch of this system upgrade in a couple of weeks. So I appreciate my business partner and the effort he has put in to improving our systems and processes to make the AAC recording go smoothly.

Which leaves me sitting here, reading emails, my most recent copy of Communications of the ACM, and general playing around on the interwebs… Just installed the Tweeter-Tools plugin for WordPress.

[ANN] LA Ruby Conf 2009

CobyR — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:10:22 +0000

We are proud to announce LA Ruby Conf 2009.

Please visit the site and plan on visiting us on April 4th, for what promises to be a great regional ruby event!

Hope to see you there!

For details visit: http://www.larubyconf.com

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Finally – it’s 4:09 AM and I think I’m ok with the content on the site! Looking forward to proposals for presentations (have three already) and registrations.

LA Ruby Conf 2009

CobyR — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:35:30 +0000

We are making all of our plans to put on LA Ruby Conf 2009. Target date is April 4th, 2009. Still working on a location, the web-site will be up by the end of this weekend, and then we’ll announce on ruby-talk, etc…

http://www.larubyconf.com/

AT&T Interactive: The Many Facets of Ruby

CobyR — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:06:14 +0000

Well it has taken some time, but I’ve finally put my slides from the Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference online.

If you have questions feel free to contact me.

Twitter Mashups

CobyR — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:29:37 +0000

During the lightening talks tonight at #prorubyconf08, someone did a presentation on some mashups they have done for twitter.

Check them out at:

http://www.followcost.net (for something interesting put guykawasaki in to see his cost)

and

http://www.twistr.org

Twistr is Twitter + flickr creates things like this and lets you vote on them:

Twistr. Twitter + Flickr = LOLs?

LAX – DTW – ASM – OSL

CobyR — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:41:07 +0000

Airline alphabet soup. Translates to Los Angeles to Detroit to Amsterdam to Oslo.

Headed overseas to record the second annual Smidig conference.

I wanted to stick a photo of LAX in here, but it turns out the USB cable I use to transfer photos got stuck in a bag that I put in my checked-in suitcase… So photos will have to wait until I get to Norway.

It’s 77 degrees here in LA now, supposed to hit a high of 92, in Oslo it is 50 degrees with a high of 52. Oslo is also 9 hours ahead of LA, so I’ll be landing arriving there Wednesday at 2:30 PM, which is the equivalent of 5:30 AM here. Yes I am practicing my math for you, are you impressed?

I’m really liking my AT&T data card (company issue) it is a fantastic convenience at times like these.