July's DCRUG will be a doubleheader - Patrick Hall with be speaking about Unicode, and Keith Bennett will discuss Unix command line productivity tips. Unicode ...
Correction - the July DCRUG will be held on July 10th. -- Chris Selmer Partner, Director of Client Solutions Intridea, Inc. www.intridea.com [Non-text portions...
Guys, A few of us from DCRUG have been holding a loosely planned hackfest for the past few weekends. Presentations are a good way to get initial exposure to a...
July's DCRUG will be a doubleheader - Patrick Hall with be speaking about Unicode, and Keith Bennett will discuss Unix command line productivity tips. ...
I apologize if this isn't the right place to post this. My company is seeking a full-time Ruby/Rails developer for a government contract in Herndon, VA. The...
All, A few words from Chad Fowler, at the beginning of RailsConf, set my head spinning. Chad said, "I don't do well in classroom environments". Ironically,...
I've posted the following on my blog. If people are interested, I can make it more robust. It is fairly brittle now - ie, no exception handling. And no...
Not sure, I had been trying to get Engineyard to give us a speaker, for next week, not this one, but that fell through unfortunately. At this point, RubyNation...
While the convention over configuration pattern that Rails exemplifies gets much attention, Rails' incredible extensibility through Ruby is often-times ...
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Evan David Light ... BarCamps are, in fact, a discussion and not set of presentations. From the BarCamp.org website: "BarCamp...
Oh no, I am sorry. RubyNation is sold out right now. The RubyNation web site will get updated with that post tomorrow. Engineyard plans to give away two...
I need to hire a new full-time Sr QA person for our Rails team doing web and mobile app manual/automated testing. I'm sad to say that we are loosing our...
If you attended RubyNation, be sure to stop by http://rubynation.nowgetsocial.com to submit feedback on the different sessions and presenters. And, if you're a...
While the convention over configuration pattern that Rails exemplifies gets much attention, Rails' incredible extensibility through Ruby is often-times ...
Thanks Navjeet. These are exciting times for us. --luc ... From: Navjeet <navjeetc@...> Subject: [novarubygroup] NOVARUG guy mentioned on tech crunch To:...
Hello, all, I have a few Rails apps in production, running on Rails 1.2.3. I've been holding off on upgrading until they were fairly stable, but now it seems ...
Ever considered creating a branch in your SVN repository? That will afford you the ability to "sandbox" your upgrade while maintaining the branch which is on...
Michael, This isn't trivial, but it probably isn't as bad as you are fearing (as long as you have good test coverage) There are several things that will help...
David, Thank you for your advice. I really appreciate it. Happily, my test coverage is pretty good, so at least I can count on that. I can't wait to rewrite...
David et al, I will take the back slot, unless someone else is already filling or the topic too far out, and it with something along a similar vain. I'd like...
I understand the need for encouraging and bringing in new people and bring them up to speed, but, at the same time, there may be a need for a more deeper dive...
Offering regularly scheduled "Intro to Ruby" classes might be a good way to bring in new people and offer old timers a chance to teach.?? In parallel there...
The Java user group used to be split into "core" and "enterprise", and we eventually collapsed those two concepts into just having two monthly meetings... The...
I think a mix of both in the same group is good. For those running a RUG it is hard to keep the topics coming and organized as is. The two groups would tend...