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It has been an absolutely batty six weeks. You already saw all about my trip to RailsConf. I’ve been engaged in a lot of communication with the executive team at ALTERthought, which is where I work. Those communications have gone in a lot of different directions, but there have been a number of good outcomes. [...]

For me, this was the slowest day of the conference by design. I was so exhausted, and my feet hurt so badly that I wondered if I would even make it to the keynote in the morning. I did manage to get there without too much problem, and the Aleve that I brought came in [...]

Unfortunately for the fellow at RailsMachine, this talk is an area that I’m really trying to stay abreast of. I historically have had very little money to spend on architecture, and the concept of virtualization has had a huge impact on my professional development. As such, I thought that I would give some time to [...]

This talk was a bit of a stretch for me, having never written an application that was even close to needing Memcached. I had a great seat, though, and really enjoyed meeting Chris at the “Joyent Happy Hour”. I also had just sat through a talk where all the concepts were familiar. What was the [...]

This presentation was one of the highlights of the conference to me. For me, it was a perfectly structured talk. It joins the V is for Vexing, Joyent Happy Hour, and the make_resourceful talk as the overall highlights of the conference for me. (make_resourceful link coming soon!) In my experience, there are a lot of [...]

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Pretty lofty title for a post about World of Warcraft, but I quit playing yesterday, and I feel free today. I got caught playing by Megan, which was the impetus for deleting my entire application folder on the spot. (My Auctioneer data—- noooooo!!!!) I had spent some portion of the day attaining level 37 (of [...]

Friday was the first “real day” of the conference, with DHH’s opening keynote (well summarized by Patrick Reagan here) and the first day of sessions. You’ll have to wait for my own summary post on the entire conference to get my impressions of the keynote speakers. My day included Bob Martin’s Clean Code Jay Field’s [...]

If you’ve never been to a talk by Bob Martin before, one picture really does equal a thousand words. (Make sure to check out the link in the third comment.) He is a very passionate, very intense speaker. He challenges the listener to rise to a higher level of code-fu. This was the first time [...]

I originally found Jay Fields’ blog from a reference in the back of Rails For Java Developers from Stu Halloway. Reading his blog was really interesting and dealt with a lot of unfamiliar topics. As a result, I was eager to hear him speak. Jay had one slide for his entire presentation, but a lot [...]