Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
So I know one of the ongoing concerns with conferences in general (and Railsconf in particular) is that people often don't know what to expect from the presentations - they go in expecting an in-depth study of a subject they know well, and end up seeing an quick and dirty ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Rails is well-known for providing little things here and there that make developers' lives easier. Sometimes they're obvious, like the various inflection methods added to String (pluralize, titleize, etc.) - but just as often, these useful tidbits are hidden in the Rails internals. Just because they're usually limited to the ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Lacie and I went for a third-trimester ultrasound on Thursday, and we came out of it with both a new appreciation for the technology involved and a couple of neat, three-dimensional pictures of our baby's face. This one's my favorite.
Less than two months to the due date now!
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Looks like I'm going to Portland for Railsconf again, woohoo! My session on Advanced RESTful Rails was accepted, so at some point between the end of May and the first of June I'll be talking about domain modeling and the specific implementation of REST in Rails in front of a ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
You know that feeling where you're working on things you love so much that it becomes kind of tiresome? Where you still enjoy what you're doing, but it's just on the edge of feeling like work? I've been there for a little while, but I'm happy to say that I ...
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