Chad Fowler is talking right now. I think he works on giving keynotes that leave you scratching your head a bit. His keynote at the Mountain West Ruby conference had mixed reviews. We left wondering what his intent was, but we weren’t sure if it was just our perception. Last night we had a chance…
Category: Ruby On Rails
Rails Conf Intro from Chad Fowler and Some Stuff from the Mountain West Ruby Conference
Chad Fowler is talking right now. I think he works on giving keynotes that leave you scratching your head a bit. His keynote at the Mountain West Ruby conference had mixed reviews. We left wondering what his intent was, but we weren’t sure if it was just our perception. Last night we had a chance…
Rails Conf DHH keynote
Listening to DHH right now. Play DHH buzzword bingo here. http://bingdoh.com/games/dhh-keynote He started out talking about the growth of the community and making fun of a job post requesting a Rails programmer with at least 3 years of Rails experience. (That is longer than he has been on Rails and he invented it.) Now we…
Rails Conf Intro from Chad Fowler and Some Stuff from the Mountain West Ruby Conference
Chad Fowler is talking right now. I think he works on giving keynotes that leave you scratching your head a bit. His keynote at the Mountain West Ruby conference had mixed reviews. We left wondering what his intent was, but we weren’t sure if it was just our perception. Last night we had a chance…
Rails Conference Day One
We flew into Portland last night so that we would be ready bright and early this morning. I hate waking up at 6:30 am to go to a conference. We are programmers when will they realize that the conference should start at 11 and then run late into the night. Maybe even start at 3…
Rails Day One – Rails Routing
Sitting in a session by David Black. He is talking about routing in Rails. It is starting out pretty basic, but I am hoping that it will end up covering the more complex issues as time goes on. We are going over named routes now. This is actually a very good tutorial, but it is…
Something Scrumdidilyumptious
Just short of a year ago I hacked together a project that we loving called scrumdidilyumptio.us. I and Wiley managed to finish it at about 2 in the morning in a hotel in NY during the Mellon meeting. (I actually worked on it during the meeting which resulted in terrible embarsement when my system speaker…
asp.net is fun again
I finally worked through most of the challenges I was faced with and I like asp.net again. It is interesting to program in several environments. I do a lot of Ruby on Rails these days and I love it. However, I have other applications that are written in ASP.Net. I have written quite a bit…
Not because I want to
For a long time now I have been trying to figure out how to update The Plan Collection to an open source platform. I find myself updating it to ASP.Net instead. ASP.Net is ok to work with. I think Ruby on Rails is better. By better I mean simplier. ASP.Net has more stuff. It comes…
The Plan Collection
I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting – houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is a joy to work…