Archive for the ‘ruby and rails’ Category

2008 Rails Rumble, Done

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Ack! In the process of writing that quick post on my Rubyconf presentation, I noticed that I've completely neglected talking about the Rails Rumble. As it turns out, I kind of won the solo division... again. I love the Rumble; it's one of the most inspiring competitions I've ever been ...

And… Session Aftermath

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

My second session at Railsconf Europe ended a few hours ago, and marks the third time I've talked about Advanced RESTful Rails. This one went noticeably better than the tutorial (I'm thinking

Tutorial Aftermath

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

So, yesterday morning (0830 CET, 0230 EST) was my tutorial on resourceful plugins at Railsconf Europe. Other than flying through the material and running short, it went pretty well. We ended up writing a fair chunk of code semi-collaboritively, so I've uploaded that to GitHub (I've also updated it a ...

Advanced RESTful Rails, done

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

So I've been absent for a while - in no small part because I've been prepping for my Railsconf talk on Advanced RESTful Rails, which I gave yesterday. I've gone ahead and uploaded the slides here for interested parties, so feel free to take a look and leave comments or ...

The book has arrived!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

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 ...