We’ve just released the video for Everything I Learned About Open Source Development I Learned From Indie Hip Hop from Aloha on Rails, in which Corey Donohoe talks about the striking similarities between open source hacking and indie hip hop. This was one of the most celebrated talks of the conference, we hope you enjoy it!

I just send an email to thousands of users to notify them that time.onrails.org is closing down. I don’t think many of these users are active but just in case I wanted everyone to be able to get their data out of the system if so they wished.

I will turn down the service on March 17th at 9pm.

So last night I realized that I really love MongoDB. I love it so much that I want everyone to be using it whenever it makes sense (which is quite often). I thought about what I could do to help get the word out more and starting a new site made the most sense (instead of flooding RailsTips with Mongo stuff).

MongoTips is a new blog dedicated to MongoDB news and information. I’ll be posting things there that we have learned building Harmony and anything I can find from the community.

April 17th of this year, a lot of good people I know are throwing a conference for the Great Lakes region at Michigan State University (Go Irish!). They currently have a call for proposals open until February 28th.

I’m already on the docket and I have something awesome planned, so whether you want to talk or just attend, I would highly recommend keeping this conference on your radar.