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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 2007 [...]
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 [...]
Rails 2.1 – fully restful Gems haml annotate_models rails coolapp haml –rails ./coolapp cd coolapp script/plugin install http://svn.techno-weenie.net/projects/plugins/attachment_fu/ script/plugin install http://svn.hamptoncatlin.com/make_resourceful/trunk
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 [...]
Last night we hosted the second LARuby meetup at the YELLOWPAGES.COM office. We had a great turn out. We spent a good deal of time on introductions and then the following presentations: Jacob Dunphy presented on git and github Giles Bowkett presented on Archaeopteryx his Midi Generator Followed by about 30 minutes of hanging out [...]
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 [...]
The inaugural meeting for LARuby was held last night at the LA Times building down town. We had a really good turn out… failed to actually count, guestimate 25+, a large contingency from LA Times, a large contingency from YELLOWPAGES.COM, and a decent number of people with other affiliations. It was a good meet and [...]
