Posted by Andrew
Tue, 30 May 2006 18:22:00 GMT
and it is coming up fast. O’Reilly’s Annual Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, that is. If you have never been, come on out. I’ve been to a good number of conferences and conventions in my I.T. career, and I have found OSCON to be the most informative, stimulating, and just plain fun. Just hanging with the folks who make a career of thinking outside the box is worth the price of admission. So, I hope to see you there…
If you do plan to come, let me know, and we’ll get together for one of Portland’s famous microbrews…
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags conferences, networking, opensource | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:05:00 GMT
Rails 1.1 is here.
Dion Hinchcliffe, of ‘Web 2.0’ fame, writes on the importance of Rails, and this release in particular, here.
At the recent Ajax Real-World seminar, Dion interviewed David Heinemeier-Hannsen creator of Rails. In the interview David covers some history, recounting why he created Rails in the first place, what Rails aims to achieve, and what we can look forward to in the 1.1 release. You can watch the interview here.
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Tech Talk | Tags ajax, rjs, rubyonrails, web20 | no comments
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:12:00 GMT
...to get a lot of hits.
witness Craigslist
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags smallbiz | no comments | no trackbacks
Posted by Andrew
Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:46:00 GMT
A fellow developer sent me this link late last night. I confess I haven’t laughed as hard in a long time. Till I cried. After reading the first 2 or 3 sentences, I thought that this guy must have been writing on his 3rd or 4th pint in the wee hours. Whether or not he was, his diatribe is informative, insightful and at points killingly funny.
The comedy has as lot to do with hitting the mark, like David H. Hannsen did recently on
his blog with this little piece of Java code whose humor is inherent:
UploadedFile uploadedFile
= (UploadedFile) fileUpload1.getUploadedFile();
String text = uploadedFile.getAsString();
Posted in Tech Talk | Tags c, emacs, humor, java, lisp, perl, python, ruby | 1 comment
Posted by Andrew
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:40:00 GMT
This week is the famed Demo Conference in Phoenix Arizona. There our good friends at Sprout are unleashing their debut Ruby on Rails app, Mailroom. Sign up for a free account and check it out!
Posted in Ruby on Rails, Tech Talk | Tags rubyonrails, sprout | 3 comments | no trackbacks
