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Microsoft deems Ruby on Rails a competitor

Numerous commercial software vendors offer competing software applications for connectivity (both Internet and intranet), security, hosting, and e-business servers. System Center competes with server management and server virtualization platform providers, such as BMC, CA, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and VMWare in the management of information technology infrastructures.

Complete Lineup of Speakers and Sessions Announced

Aloha!

We’re incredibly honored and excited to announce that the complete lineup of speakers and sessions has been selected for Aloha on Rails 2009, the Hawaii Ruby on Rails Conference. We could not have asked for a more experienced, engaging, and interesting group of speakers and topics. We’ve worked with the presenters to create a schedule full of stories, wisdom, and knowledge sharing that spans all areas relevant to today’s web developer. At Aloha on Rails, you will learn about:

15 Expert Tips for Using Cucumber

Here we are: the 3rd and final post in my series on Cucumber. Check out the LazyWeb in action: I put out calls for ‘Cucumber Best Practices’ and received an assortment of responses—thanks to everyone who contributed! After collecting and reviewing all the responses, I’ve come up with a list of 15 expert tips you want to keep in mind when working with Cucumber.

Masking Latency & Failures with Squid

Latency matters. Watching the interviews with the Yahoo developers on the launch of their new homepage, I was once again reminded about the great amount of effort they have put in to make it all work.

Rails Envy Podcast - Episode #089: 08/05/09

Episode 89. This is the last Rails Envy podcast by Nathaniel Bibler and I. You'll just have to listen to the podcast for more details, which I hope you were planning on anyways. FYI, Jason Seifer may be doing another cast after this, so it may not be the official last one, just the last one for Nathan and I.

Rails Envy Podcast – Episode #089: 08/05/09

Episode 89. This is the last Rails Envy podcast by Nathaniel Bibler and I. You’ll just have to listen to the podcast for more details, which I hope you were planning on anyways. FYI, Jason Seifer may be doing another cast after this, so it may not be the official last one, just the last one for Nathan and I.

Ruby I don't like #3 - Object#freeze

Object#freeze annoys me. Not a lot, but enough to bitch blog about it. So, freeze lets you make sure no one else modifies your precious little object :

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Extending the timeout for Rails processes through Passenger on Nginx

I recently had to allow for a long running reporting task in a Rails app which is running under Passenger (mod_rails) on Nginx

The default setting is 60 seconds and setting send_timeout to 300 in the Nginx config wasn’t working.
After much searching, I found the answer. Edit

/ext/nginx/Conguration.c and change the lines:

Ruby & Excel: Inserting Pictures Into Cells (New and Improved!)

In a previous article, I discussed a method for inserting images into an Excel worksheet. It seems that the Worksheet.Pictures.Insert() method that I demonstrated in that article, though frequently used, is not actually officially documented in the Excel Object Model Reference.

Should I Tap that Hash? (Ruby 1.9 Style)

UPDATE: Be sure to read the comments. I’ve already learned a lot from them, and you might, too.

Though the Ruby Best Practices book covers Ruby 1.9, it is decidedly not a “Ruby 1.9 Best Practices” book. The reason for this, of course, is that common idioms for Ruby 1.9 haven’t evolved yet.

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