I’m teaching a beginner ruby class. If you’ve ever been interested in learning Ruby this is a hands on class with no experience and no software required. Class is this Wednesday the 15th at 7pm in downtown Austin.
Remember that great presentation you gave at that user group? What about that one at the conference, you know the one everyone loved. What if your presentation wasn’t limited by the number of seats in the room or badges sold at a desk. What if, and this is a bit crazy, you could use some sort of electronic device to record your presentation and share it using a series of connected tubes.
Today a lowly programing peon fails a devious whiteboarding interview torture trap! After candidate leaves, the interviewer asks their colleges, “why are there no good programmers available?”. Well…
All good developers should write tests, and anyone with a high stake in a web app should write acceptance tests. Acceptance tests use a web driver like Capybara to test the full functionality of your web app by interacting directly with view elements the same way a user would (clicking links, filling out forms, etc.)
We’ve all been there, we start a new project with grand hopes and aspirations. But soon enough our project turns into one big ball of mud. In this presentation I talk about some common mistakes in Rails and how to keep your project Sane.
If you want to make a change to Rails, you probably want to test out your change in an existing project. Here is what I needed to do to get an example project running on my fork of Rails:
Rails needs controller level filter logging and Im submitting a patch to Rails core, but first I want some feedback. Let me know if you like it, hate it, or don’t understand it. All comments welcome, especially alternative implementation & style.
Gowalla was acquired by Facebook and I’m left with a decision of what to do next.
Congrats, you did a killer presentation or screencast, now you want to upload it to the interwebs and share with the world, but what service should you use? I’ve used both YouTube and Vimeo and wanted to compare and contrast the two.
