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Archive | June, 2007

RailsConf Writeups: Building and Working with Static Sites in Ruby on Rails

June 1, 2007

Ben Scofield, who I had not met, works with Patrick Reagan, who I have. Combined with the fact that almost every Rails site that I have written has some amount of static content, I was interested to see the talk. In the style of Bob Martin’s talk early in the day, Ben’s presentation dealt with [...]

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RailsConf Writeups: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

June 1, 2007

Adam Keys made a big splash last year with his presentation AC/DC, Stravinsky, and Rails. Reading open-source code is one of my primary methods of learning, particularly languages in which I’m not that experienced. So I was pretty pumped for this session. Despite Adam’s entertaining style, I thought this presentation was pretty slow apart from [...]

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Railsconf Writeups: Joyent Happy Hour

June 1, 2007

Wow, this party was awesome! I went for the first two days. The second day gets its own entry, because me and Jon Maddox were some of the last people there. We shut the party down! The most exciting thing that happened for me during the entire conference was on the balcony at the Doubletree [...]

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