Monthly Archives: May 2007

Automated CRUD Plugins BOF tonight at 8:30pm

We’ll be gathering together all the Rails folks who want better scaffolding, like Dave Thomas said he wanted last year, tonight at the Automated CRUD Plugins BOF – scaffolding and beyond. It’s at 8:30PM over in Room C122. Lance and … Continue reading

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RailsConf 2007 at the halfway point

RailsConf 2007 is going well. I found the RailsConf slides that are available already at http://wiki.oreillynet.com/wiki/railsconf2007/index.cgi?PresentationSlides. I hope that all the speakers get their slides up on the web at some point. A few highlights so far: memcached presentation by … Continue reading

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JRuby 1.0 coming at end of May

Sitting through the Sun keynote at RailsConf. Tim Bray is up and speaking and making it clear that Sun likes Ruby. Which is a good thing, but I guess we haven’t seen so much commercial sponsorship in the Ruby world … Continue reading

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Need to get a Sprint or Verizon wireless broadband card

Any thoughts on which one to get? I’d like to have a more consistent Net connection when I travel. The hotel where I’m staying at, the connection was awesome on tutorial Wednesday, slowing down and hiccupy on Thursday, and stone … Continue reading

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9 Things that DHH likes about Rails 2.0

Breakpoints are back. Wait, actually there’s a real debugger in there?! HTTP Performance has improved. Any JavaScript and CSS that uses the *_include_tag with :cache => true will be bundled and gzipped up, so the browser will make less connections … Continue reading

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DHHNote 2007

DHH is reviewing the State of the Ruby on Rails Union: 1 million downloads of the Rails gem hundreds of plugins (at least 600…I wonder how many generators) 10,000 people in rubyonrails-talk Google group (and several hundred in the IRC … Continue reading

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RailsConf is huge

We’ve got 1600 people attending this years RailsConf (as opposed to around 400 last year.) This sort of reminds me of when Eclipse got popular and the growth between the first and second EclipseCon. Alright so Chad is up on … Continue reading

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Streamlined at RailsConf

My tutorials day turned into a Streamlined day. After going to most of the JRuby presentation, I ducked out to pair program some last minute Streamlined improvements with Justin Gehtland. Matthew Bass was with us too working on Streamlined to … Continue reading

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I’m at RailsConf 2007

I’m at RailsConf 2007 in Portland, OR – its tutorial day. I’ve been really busy with consulting lately so haven’t done much blogging. But I usually am good at blogging while at a conference. :) Sitting in the “Your First … Continue reading

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