Tag: Ruby on Rails
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Sometimes it all works out
I’ve had a couple of airline adventures this week. My class in Philadelphia ended early last Friday, so I went to the airport expecting to spend hours in the US Airways club. Not a bad thing, incidentally, since I had a lot of work to do. As it turned out, though, I was able to…
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Philadelphia, PA
It's Philly this week. I've got an interesting group who work for the same company last week's students work for. Maybe I can come up with some kind of inter-city competition — a game, a puzzle, or something. I'll have to think about that. This week is all about making the OO transition, but this…
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Sox win, and a new version of AWDR
So the Sox pulled out a win against the Yankees, thanks to a seeing eye single by Mark Loretta and a three-run homer by Big Papi. That guy simply rules. I don't think I've seen a hero this lionized in Boston since Larry Bird, though I will admit that Tom Brady can do pretty much…
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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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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…