December 2007
7 posts
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Oh Right, Rubedo
Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve worked on or spoken about Rubedo. Actually, I recently gave a microtalk at RubyConf’s “RejectConf” on Rubedo, and that sparked a bit of interest from the crowd. I took a day today and brought together a bunch of ideas and fixes that have gathered over the past 10 months since the last release, and made another one. Download it off of Rubyforge.
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Massage your params
Well you’ve launched your fancy new app, and the social aspects are flourishing. In fact, comments are rolling in like it’s christmas. I guess the comments are presents and the site is a small child and your users are Santa?
Anyway, there are a lot of naughty boys and girls out there so now your client, the site operator, requests that comments must be approved prior to publication. ...
Shoulda in Advanced Rails Recipes
Mike Clark and the Pragmatic Programmers just released the beta version of their latest offering: Advanced Rails Recipes: 72 New Ways to Build Stunning Rails Apps. This is one of the few rails books I’ve been eagerly waiting for, so you can imagine how honored I was when Mike Clark asked me to review his section on Shoulda.
That’s right, folks! Shoulda got its own stake of land in recipe #22:...
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Fourteen hours to save the earth
With our projects getting more and more complex and visually interesting, it’s time we enter a world we didn’t think we’d enter – we’re hiring a full time flash developer. The position can be based out of either our Boston or NYC offices, and includes full benefits. Some client interaction required.
Qualifications:
Must have working knowledge of the history of the flash and it’s...
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Fresh off the robot assembly line
We’d like to welcome four new robots to the thoughtbot team
Angelo Simeoni – Angelo has the job that I secretly wish I could have: semantic markup samurai. He’ll be summarizing your tables and declaring your doctypes in a browser near you any day now.
Kevin Burg – Kevin was on the winning rails rumble team, and keeps wearing this belt around the New York City office to prove a point....
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Winners of 'the contest'
On November 13th, we announced the contest – a client story submission adventure with a Pro ActiveRecord: Databases with Ruby and Rails book giveaway as the prize.
Thank you
Thanks to Rick Olson for posting this on the rails blog and to Peter Cooper for posting on ruby inside (Hey look, he even started his own contest a few days ago!)- and thanks to everyone who sent in a ridiculous...
Shhh! Your Test::Unit backtraces are too noisy!
For more details on the history of this little open source effort, see James Golick’s post at James on Software.
I’m a child of the Information Age, over-stimulated with a tiny attention spa… hey, a blue car!
Therefore, I love Rails and Agile processes for focusing my mind so I don’t get distrac… haha, those squirrels are chasing each other! I’ll call the little one Bitey.
However,...