I and seven others from Rosetta Stone attended RailsConf 2006 last weekend. Somewhat surprisingly, after 12 years in the software business this was my first conference! I had a great time.
My favorite parts of the conference were the “softer” presentations. I liked Scott Laird Scott Raymond’s presentation on working with http://blinksale.com and http://iconbuffet.com. It’s a success story of a single developer working with a company to deliver fantastic results. I also like Nathaniel Talbott’s presentation on “Homesteading” as I mentioned earlier .
There were a couple of strong themes for the conference though. First, FastCGI is out or on its way out. Mongrel is the darling for deployment. In fact, it was during the conference that patches got applied to rails core so that script/server will use mongrel. More good news is that deployment is a hot topic getting a lot of attention. I fully expect depl...
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Board BreakingFrom: blog.lathi.net
Post Date: 2006-06-02 13:42:27
My son, Joshua, has been in Karate for about a year. He started in the “kinder” program and then moved up to the youth classes. Board breaking is very exciting to kids. As part of his blue belt testing he has to break a board with a shuto (knife hand) strike.
He’d been building up to this for a while. One night he thought he was going to do it, but another student started before him. He stood there and watched and listened to the Sensei as she instruc...
more Apple Summer CampFrom: blog.lathi.net
Post Date: 2006-06-08 06:37:08
My oldest son, Josh, can go to Apple Summer Camp this year. I’ve signed him up for the Movie Workshop and iWeb Workshop .
“Summer Camp” is a bit of a misnomer. Each “camp” is 3 hours on one day. Since Josh is under 13, I’ll need to take off work to be there with him. It should be fun! The idea is to actually finish a project and take it home burned on DVD . Plus he gets a T-Shirt for each “camp” he goes to.
Oh, and J...
more Barn Raising!From: blog.lathi.net
Post Date: 2006-06-24 16:29:33
Nathaniel Talbott just gave an excellent presentation on “Homesteading”, staking out on your own to build a business. It was a personal, intimate discourse on his feelings about starting out on your own. His metaphor was around settling “The Old West”. He closed by suggesting “barn raising.” If you have your “land” staked out and know what you need but just need help getting your building built, ask for help!
One thing RailsDay sho...
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