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See You At The Hackfest!

A quick reminder to those of you attending MountainWest RubyConf this weekend: Engine Yard will be hosting it’s third annual MountainWest RubyConf Hackfest this Thursday night!

Rails Reminder: DATE_FORMATS

A friend of mine recently asked me about adding time formats to Rails apps. It’s not completely intuitive on how to add new "default" symbols for date and time formats or to get a list of the built in ones. The API has the built-in lists of constants under DATE_FORMATS but it’s a bit difficult to read on that page.

Michael Fogus talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Michael Fogus, author of the forthcoming book – The Joy of Clojure. In this interview, Michael Fogus talks to the Clojure 101 course participants on Clojure.

Use the Cucumber

The Cucumber behavior-driven development framework is appreciated by developers from many languages. It makes it easy to write plain-text stories that run executable Ruby code against your application.

In this hour and ten minute screencast, you’ll learn the basics of Cucumber. You’ll learn the syntax, organization, and philosophy of writing Features, Scenarios, and Steps. You’ll build an application and learn where unit tests are a better fit.

"If you decide to use a library, you own it, and you’ll end up seeing it naked. Try to make..."

“If you decide to use a library, you own it, and you’ll end up seeing it naked. Try to make sure it’s not suffering from either obesity or gangrene well before this happens. If you can avoid using it entirely without making your specs worse or adding code, do.” - From David Lee’s rails-oceania thread on Testability Development

Stuart Halloway talks to RubyLearning’s Clojure Course Participants

On the eve of the first free, online “Clojure 101” course, Michael Kohl of RubyLearning caught up with Stuart Halloway, author of Programming Clojure and talked to him on Clojure, for the benefit of the Clojure 101 course participants.

return false considered harmful in live

Checkout following jQuery code written with jQuery.1.4.2. What do you think will happen when first link is clicked.

$('a:first').live('click', function(){
log('clicked once');
return false;
});
$('a:first').live('click', function(){
log('clicked twice');
return false;
});

I was expecting that I would see both the messages. However jQuery only invokes the very first message.

phpBB on GitHub

The phpBB team recently completed a move from SVN to Git and are now hosting their repositories on GitHub!

I remember phpBB being one of my first experiences with online programming — trying to setup a forum for my now dead drumming site.

Making Ruby Fast: The Rubinius JIT

In order to execute Ruby code as fast as possible, Rubinius has the ability to compile Ruby code all the way down to machine code when it detects that a method is heavily used. In Rubinius, the system that manages this process is its JIT.

In today’s post, I’ll be giving an overview of the various players involved in the path that code takes to get from source to machine code. Without further ado, I’ll jump right in.

360 Flex - Day 2 (Tuesday) - Live Blogging

As you saw yesterday afternoon I didn’t blog too much, so let’s how today goes. The party last night was really fun, lot’s of networking, rock band playing and just a nice general geek atmosphere.

Evolution of RIA Design Principals

Right now the “Evolution of RIA Design Principals” panel is about to start.

Panel is:

Reston | Rails Fire

Reston

Ruby and Rails Conferences 2010

There are an incredible amount of Ruby & Rails conferences coming up in the next 6 months. See below to find one in your neck of the woods.

MountainWest RubyConf

March 11-12 – MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Cost: 100 USD

Upcoming Travel and Speaking Engagements

I gave myself a little break this spring and early summer, but the pace is about to pick up again. The rest of the year is looking pretty busy. Here’s what the rest of this year looks like so far. If you’re a reader of this weblog, consider stopping by to say hello.

RubyNation Mini-Interview: Aaron Bedra

RubyNation (June 11-13 in Reston, VA) is coming up pretty quickly. I'm running a series of mini-interviews with speakers and organizers there to help people get a feel for what RubyNation is going to be like. So far, I've interviewed Hal Fulton, Russ Olsen, and Gray Herter.This time, I'm talking with Aaron Bedra (@abedra). Aaron's talking about rcov and Ruby 1.9. I think it's going to be an

RubyNation Mini-Interview: Gray Herter

For my third RubyNation interview, I talked with Gray Herter, one of the organizers. (I've also interviewed Hal Fulton and Russ Olsen about this upcoming regional Ruby conference.)Don't forget RubyNation will be held in Reston, VA on June 11-13, so you don't have to much time left to register.Why did you decide to put RubyNation together?Gray It started with a conversation that I had with Xandy

RubyNation Mini-Interview: Russ Olsen

For my second RubyNation interview, I talked with Russ Olsen (@russolsen), one of the organizers. (I've also interviewed Hal Fulton about this upcoming regional Ruby conference.)Don't forget RubyNation will be held in Reston, VA on June 11-13, so you don't have to much time left to register.Russ is an awfully bright guy, and a real contributor to the Ruby community. You might also be interested

RubyNation Mini-Interview: Hal Fulton

RubyNation (June 11-13 in Reston, VA) is coming up pretty quickly, and I've started a series of mini-interviews with speakers and organizers there to help people get a feel for what RubyNation is going to be like.
If you're interested in getting more that this little taste, I'd recommend that you go register soon. I don't think the seats are going to last long.
My first interview is with Hal

The Rails Edge Part Deux

So, the second Rails Edge conference is quickly approaching; I’ll be flying to the East Coast here in a few weeks, where I’ll be lucky enough to speak alongside some really smart people (again) about something I find a lot of fun– Rails. I will, of course, be talking about Rails Views, and there’s a lot of other interesting things planned.

My Rails Edge Wrap-up

So, over the last few days I had the opportunity to be a speaker for The Rails Edge held in Denver, CO (incidently, just down the road a bit). The Rails Edge is a unique series of Rails-related conferences held by The Pragmatic Studio that will be held regionally across the US. What makes them unique is their format– open, friendly, and focused on up-to-date Rails information. The way I wish all conferences were.

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