Scottish Ruby Conference
I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation …
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Using iText to generate PDFs in Rails; JRuby vs. Ruby Java Bridge
So I need to generate a PDF, using data coming out of a Rails-based app. I started looking at Prawn and Prawnto, but I need to prepend the PDF with some boilerplate material, ideally another PDF. In other words, I'd like to programmatically generate …
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Blog.new
As of about 15 minutes ago, the blog engine here is a brand new rewrite of what was before. The new system may not look much different on the surface, but it's all new underneath — and hopefully a lot easier to make gradual improvements, going …
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RubyEnRails Tidbits
I'm way too attention-deprived to "live blog" at a conference, so here's some of my notes transcribed from paper to the interwebs…
Zed Shaw's opener
- Stop doing math demos as benchmarks – math's not the problem, IO is (talk to the database …
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Busy weekend!
So… Leopard came out on Friday. We stood in line for an hour or so at Utrecht’s A Mac. The “big unveiling” included T-shirts …
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Obscure Rails bug: respond_to format.any
I found an odd bug in Rails today. Odd, in the sense that it's not so much broken, as working in a way that's different than one would expect.
In a controller, one uses respond_to to present the appropriate response, as determined by the requested mimetype …
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RailsConfEurope, part 2
Better late than never, more of my thoughts on RailsConfEurope:
Cyndi Mitchell (ThoughtWorks) Keynote
The ThoughtWorks keynote was, by far, the most interesting use of the paid keynote slots. Cyndi Mitchell's talk was a little narrative about business …
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RailsConfEurope, part 1
RailsConfEurope was not only my first Rails conference (although I did go to 37signals "Building of Basecamp" workshop) but, actually, my first professional conference event ever. Here are some highlights, in roughly chronological order:
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RailsConf Europe
For what it's worth... I'll be attending RailsConf Europe in Berlin September 18 & 19. It'll be nice to be back in Berlin, it's been almost 10 years.
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Of Blogs, Rails and APIs
This blog (the one you’re reading now) is a custom Ruby on Rails application, built because I either have an insatiable desire to learn new things or a chronic case of Not Invented Here syndrome – take your pick. I recently added support …
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