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

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.

Normally I’d just hook up my MBP and use synergy to share the keyboard and mouse, but right now I have my MBP doing other things…  So I checked out the latest version of my app to the windows box and went to run the migrations.  FAIL

No sqlite3 file… I guess I haven’t done any development on this box in a very long time.  So I run a

gem update –system

It eventually complets, and then I do a

gem install sqlite3-ruby

This ultimately results in an error message about not having nmake installed.

So figuring there was not a native version for windows yet, I ran the following command:

gem list –remote –all sqlite

To get a list of all gems starting with sqlite, found the sqlite3-ruby gem and installed the prior version, to see if it was already available for windows.

gem install sqlite3-ruby -v=1.2.3

And that did the trick.

Net result I’m back up and running my app on the windows machine, making changes and finshing videos.

The rubyconf2008 videos should be available on Tuesday (11/25/08), follow ‘confreaks’ on twitter for the latest news.

Hard to believe this is my 3rd RubyConf.

Good things are in the wind…

Hopefully more soon from the east coast, videos will be recorded, processed and posted to Confreaks as quickly as we can.

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.

Been home about 90 minutes, in that time I helped my friends over at Rareview deploy Build 2.0 of their project management application Projecturf.com.  This is a different role for me, I am not involved with the development of the software, just sysadmin functionality on their servers, and their source code repository.  So they have been working on an update to the site since May, it was great to see it launch with as little effort as was required.

Only six more days until I have to jump on a plan for Oslo, Norway to record Smidig ’08.  It’ll be fun, just have to get my YPC team going on the next release before I head out next week.

Because we don’t record the open spaces portion we are able to participate, although a majority of the presentations are done in Norwegian, the open space discussions were conducted in English when ever necessary. Check out the Smidig 2007 videos from last years conference, Warning: there are only a few in English so if your Norwegian is non-existent you’ll have a hard time getting much out of them.

YELLOWPAGES.COM and PeepCode sponsored the video recording of the conference.  In conjunction with Mopac Media and Confreaks, LLC we were able to record all of the presentations from Friday and Saturday.  Greg Pollack and Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy are doing their “conference in xx minutes”, we are hoping to release the videos on either Thursday September 10th, or on the following Monday September 15th.

Recognition should definitely be given to Jim Freeze and the rest of the Lone Star Ruby Foundation for putting together a great conference, that was preceded by a great day of tutorials.

For those of you who didn’t make be sure to follow ‘confreaks’ on twitter for the latest updates on the video availability.

EDIT: Videos are up at http://lsrc2008.confreaks.com

Currently sitting in the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn waiting for transportation to the venue at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, then we begin setup.

It’s raining like mad here, that wasn’t even in my thought pattern as a possibility…  My business partner got stuck in Denver last night due to weather and won’t be out here until later today.  Good thing we were not both on those flights…

Staff at the hotel are yelling across the lobby and debating whether or not there is a tornado warning… That would be cool Earth Quake in LA a week or so back, and to be here for a Tornado.  Of course I guess a tornado is much more localized than an earth quake.

Well I have made some progress on yafinr, at list it exists on github, stubbed out initial models based on DB design of the yaf.net system.  More later…