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Rails for .NET Developers and the Alt.Net Podcast
January 02 2009
Last year I had the opportunity to be a technical reviewer on Rails for .NET Developers by Jeff Cohen and Brian Eng (of Softies of Rails fame). I haven't done a technical review in a long-time and it wasn't half as painful as I remembered. It helped that the book… read moreJanuary 01 2009
It's New Years Eve and what better way to spend the night then writing up a post about the last year. The biggest change this year was the birth of my wonderful daughter Katherine, who we affectionately call Rin. It truly has been life changing and while it would be… read moreDecember 16 2008
On December 16th 2007, a year ago today, I took over The Lounge Advertising Network from my buddy Kevin F. Here is a quick summary of the first year: Grew from 10 publishers to 40 Launched the Small Publishers Room Launched the first .NET focused RSS advertising offering with the… read moreNovember 11 2008
There are more and more one-day local events every year, and each time people come into town, go to the event, then meander home sometime on Sunday. A couple months ago I had the idea to run a separate unaffiliated event on the Sunday morning after one of these local… read moreNovember 11 2008
I am a little late in posting this but I wanted to post my thoughts on the last day and the overall conference. I was a little "talked out" by the third day so I only ended up only going to a couple of talks Advanced DSLs in Ruby Neal Ford… read moreNovember 08 2008
I decided to take a different approach for Day 2 and write a single post instead of writing an entry for every talk. Last year when I had power in the room it was much easier to write the post during the talk, but this year without power I have… read moreRubyConf 08: John Lam - IronRuby
November 08 2008
John walked through some of the cool stuff they are doing with IronRuby. He started out showing how you can host the ruby engine in a C# application, in just a couple lines of code he wrote a WPF irb clone. He also showed how with C# 4.0 you can… read moreRubyConf 08: Jamis Buck - Recovering from the Enterprise
November 06 2008
The main idea of this talk was that working in the enterprise gets you used to certain solutions and its easy to try and apply those solutions in Ruby where they might not apply. Jamis worked in Java and when he came to Ruby he wanted to bring dependency injection… read moreRubyConf 2008: Mark Bates - Building Distributed Applications
November 06 2008
About this time my battery died on my laptop and this year there is no power available in the rooms (which is a major bummer) so my notes on this talk aren't as good as my other notes. Basically this talk was about a number of libraries available to make… read moreRubyConf 2008: Evan Phoenix - Rubinius
November 06 2008
For this talk Evan went through some of the challenges and choices they made in re-writing the VM from C to C++. It was interesting to see some of the internals but for the most part I was more interested in hearing about the progress of the project and when… read moreRubyConf 2008: Gregg Pollack - Scaling Ruby (without the Rails)
November 06 2008
For the first of the split-out sessions I decided on Gregg Pollack's Scaling Ruby talk. I am getting ready to do some work on optimizing the sds-rest library so I was hoping to get some good information from this talk on how to approach that optimization. Gregg started out covering… read moreNovember 06 2008
Matz opened up RubyConf with an enjoyable keynote where he touched on the reasons behind using Ruby and why the language and community continues to grow. He walked us through is own programming history and talked about the different language extremes, languages like BASIC (what he got started with) are… read moreNovember 05 2008
Last year was my first RubyConf, it was just down the interstate in Charlotte and I couldn't pass it up. Well, now I am hooked and I have my hotel and flight booked for RubyConf 2009. I am leaving today around 4:50 and get into Orlando at 6:40. If anyone… read moreNovember 04 2008
One of the last minute changes I had to make on the sds-rest library was to change it from using HTTP to HTTPS, I thought this would be straight-forward but it turned out to be slightly tricky. Thankfully I found this post that outlines the basics of setting up HTTPS… read more6GB of RAM in an "older" MacBook Pro
November 03 2008
I was chatting with Mark Imbriaco the other day and he mentioned that there were reports that the older MacBook Pro's could handle 6GB of RAM, and since I recently had one of my 2GB chips go bad so I figured why not and ordered a 4GB chip. I bought… read moreAlso find James on:
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