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The book has arrived!

I spent Thursday and Friday in DC at my company’s annual anniversary event - we had loads of fun, as you might be able to tell from these pics. After getting home around 2am on Saturday morning, I crashed… and when I woke up on Saturday, I discovered that the author copies of my book, Practical REST on Rails 2 Projects, had been delivered on Friday. It looks like you can go ahead and order it from Amazon, or wait a bit longer for it to show up in your local bookstore - but finally, the wait is (really) over!

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The shirt that will never be

Inspired by this:

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Preview talk done!

Been a little quiet around here lately; that’s in large part due to Morgan, but it’s also been a busy few weeks Rails-wise. Besides finishing up the book, I’ve also been wrapping up the first draft of my Railsconf talk on REST - which I gave last night at Raleigh.rb.

The presentation went well, I think - good questions and feedback, and I’m looking forward to hearing the audio. I went ahead and uploaded my slides (which I’m sure will change fairly substantially between now and the Railsconf session), too.

All in all, I’m starting to get excited for the conference. Only a month and a half left!

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Railsconf’s coming

And the session schedule has been posted. Looks like some really good talks this year - and it also appears that my talk is up against Scaling Rails on Saturday. Well, maybe the Rails Envy guys might drop by my session, since they already know Rails can’t scale.

Oh, and in other news - my book has shipped to the printer, so it should be out in early May. Woohoo!

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VigetHub

I’m excited to say that Viget’s open source participation is being bumped up a notch; last night, I created a new GitHub account for the company, where we’ll be hosting all our open source projects.

The general strategy is to use the vigetlabs repositories as the “stable” version for each of our projects, while the primary developers for each project will own a forked “edge” version. This will allow people to follow whichever version they’re more comfortable with, and hopefully encourage more participation from interested developers in the community. As an example, sandstone’s stable repository is at http://github.com/vigetlabs/sandstone/tree/master, and the edge version is at http://github.com/bscofield/sandstone/tree/master.

We’re still in the process of getting things up, but we hope to be finished soon. Take a look! (And look for more information soon on Viget’s development blog.)

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