Thanks to a blog post by Jim Meyer I started playing with Jira4R tonight. After a bit of hacking I got a nice little script that would allow me to easily add comments to jira from the command line. Here is my sample: (I had to do the funky inclusion with soap/mapping [...]

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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.

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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.  [...]

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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.

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So I’m working along this morning toping and tailing videos from rubyconf2008.  I am also working on a new app for the confreaks web-site, that will allow more dynamic access to all of our recorded presentations.  My post production work on our videos uses AVISynth which runs on Windows, so I’m stuck in Windows XP [...]

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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?

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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 [...]

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At the last LA Ruby group meetup we discussed a logo possibility for LA Ruby, although tossed out in jest, I decided to play with the idea anyway.  Here my first attempt at the concept.  I am just shifting from Paint Shop Pro X under windows to Adobe Photoshop on the mack, so my skills [...]

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Join Me at the Professional Ruby Voices That Matter Conference in Boston November 17 – 20!  I will be giving a 30-minutes presentation called “The Many Facets of Ruby at YELLOWPAGES.COM”, in which I’ll detail a number of different ways that we utilize ruby at YELLOWPAGES.COM. Our consumer site was relaunched in June of [...]

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I spent the last two day’s in Austin, Texas at the Lone Star Ruby Conference.  It was a really great event, was able to meet “Matz” again, and have a short conversation about the future of ruby.  The humbleness of this man never ceases to amaze me.
YELLOWPAGES.COM and PeepCode sponsored the video recording of the [...]

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