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Paul Barry Winner RPCFN #8

In this brief interview, Satish Talim of RubyLearning talks to Paul Barry of USA, winner of the eighth Ruby Programming Challenge For Newbies.

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

Entrepreneurship: Trial by Fire

Entrepreneurship: Trial by Fire

NVTC Hot Ticket Awards Nomination

The Passionate Programmer at Ruby Nation

Next month, I’ll be presenting at Ruby Nation in my home away from home, Northern Virginia (I seem to spend almost as much time there as I do in Colorado). The presentation will be something like this:

The Passionate Programmer

What should the career path of a programmer be? How do you know what you’re aiming for? What defines success?

Easily Search on ActiveRecord Attributes

Rails’s named_scopes are great, and the ability to chain named_scopes together are even better. I am sure many of us have done something like this before:

User.active.live_in('Virginia')

That would give you the active users who live in the state of Virginia. You would define something like these in your User model:

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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