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The (understandable) arrogance of the Rails team
Back in March, I had the pleasure of attending a No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Danvers, MA. I really enjoyed it and learned a ton about the hot technologies these days. One of the people I went to see was Dave Thomas. His list of accomplishments is extraordinary. In addition to being the author […]
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This week’s activities
This week I'm spending time working through David Black's Ruby for Rails book (hereinafter referred to as R4R) and helping Will Provost with his courseware. I'm working through the labs and demos in his Intro Java course, now that they've been ported to Java 5. I'm okay with the enhanced for loop, and with variable […]
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Red Sox update
The Sox kept coming back last night agains the D-Rays. Of course, Mike Timlin gave up two runs in the top of the 8th to tie the game (and, better for him, the runs were charged to Matt Clement), but Youkilis and Papi came through in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-4. […]
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Hello world!
I always planned to run my own blog. I was going to use Typo, under Ruby on Rails, to do so. I even downloaded typo and plan to continue to investigate it, but a few things intervened. 1. I want to upgrade to Rails 1.1 (I think 1.1.2 is the current version) and typo still […]