Jake Parsell took some really great notes using Google Wave. I know the videos will be available shortly but in the mean time if you want to figure out what you may want to watch you can find out more details below: #wave p.p1 {margin-left: 0.0px; font: 26.0px Arial} #wave p.p2 {margin-left:...
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The conference is about to start in 30 minutes, the room starts to buzz. The confreaks guys have their camera and video recording equipment all setup. So you will be able to catch up the conference online soon. Somehow I really like single track conferences and the sessions seem really great and will be...
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There are times when I debate whether to use one-liners or break them out into more readable blocks. Recently I had a situation where I needed to check certain fields on an object depending on the status of other fields. Let’s say I have a Book object and I wanted to see if it’s...
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What a conference! The talks where really awesome so far. Not exactly sure what I will attend today. I might attend “Optimize it! ActionScript Tips for iPhone Games” followed by “Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Client”. Then I will have to split early to catch a...
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In this episode of The Ruby Show, Dan and Jason bring you the latest news and some bad puns.
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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.Michael>> Welcome, Fogus and thanks for taking out time for RubyLearning’s...
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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.Michael>> Welcome, Stuart and thanks for taking out time for RubyLearning’s Clojure course participants. For their...
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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 PrincipalsRight now the “Evolution of RIA Design Principals” panel is about to start.Panel is: Chet Haase –...
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Ruby is not a strongly typed language so we sometimes need to check types explicitly. In a ducktyped world this might be less obvious than you might think. In particular, testing code that is testing input types explicitly can be harder than needed. This morning I came to work with a bunch of spec...
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Ruby User Groups (RUGs, for short) are typically informal organizations put together to encourage Ruby developers with certain areas to get together, share ideas, and, often, to have some fun. If you're lacking for inspiration or want to get to know some Rubyists within certain parts of the world (or just around the corner,...
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