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RubyConf 2008 – Day 1

CobyR — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:21:29 +0000

Well after about 8 hours of work yesterday we got everything up and running.

This morning we had Matz’s Keymote – Reasons for Ruby, then in room one I’ve watched Greg Pollack’s presentation on scaling ruby, and am now watching Using Git in Ruby Applications by Scott Chacon. Interesting git for everything.

Trying to get a regional conference organizer’s meeting together tomorrow evening.

One more a link on the name change at YELLOWPAGES.COM know known as AT&T Interactive.

Ruby Hoedown 2008 – day 0

CobyR — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:50:49 +0000

Well the initial prep work on the website rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com is done.

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…

yafinr – Yet Another Forum (in Ruby)

CobyR — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:09:22 +0000

After installing and supporting YAF.NET (http://www.yetanotherforum.net) for a couple of clients, I have decided to build another YAF, but I’ll do it in Ruby. The trips back into the land of ASP.NET and C# have been painful to say the least.

So tonight I started hacking… haven’t done much of that in a while, too busy wrapping my head around the trappings of managing an increasing team of developers at YELLOWPAGES.COM. So I got the latest rails, created a respository on my dreamhost account for SVN, and then realized… wait… why SVN? Why not git?

I have an account on github, so in an effort not to fall too far behind I went to install git:

port install git-core

-bash: port: command not found

Ah yes… this is not my personal Mac, it is my YPC Mac, MacPorts has not yet been installed. So I went out and got 1.60 of MacPorts… installed nice and easy, and started the git install. Well I forgot the amount of time required to install git on a pretty clean Mac. It’s still fetching bits and pieces, building ncurses as I type.

So tomorrow night I’ll actually through a basic site up on yafinr.randquist.us, and go from there.

My initial thoughts are to reverse engineer the functionality of yaf.net. I like the product, just don’t like moding it.

On another note I fired off quotations (some late) to RubyNation, “Voices that Matter: Professional Ruby Conference”, and the WindyCity Rails Conf.