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Weekly Links #1

January 11, 2009

I manage my bookmarks using a Delicious Bookmarklet, and I’ll post some of the best on my blog each week. Hiring for an Agile Team: Possible Questions FontExplorer® X – The new professional font management software TextMate Blog » Working With History in Bash Using MVC to Unit Test WPF Applications Mole v4.2 For Visual [...]

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No RailsConf this year

February 19, 2007

Last year I had the opportunity to attend the first RailsConf and had a great time. This year it’s back with a much bigger venue and support from O’Reilly. Alas the timing is not so good as I’ll be helping the folks at Savoy prepare for HMS Pinafore, but I’ll be able to tune into [...]

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Running Rails with FastCGI on IIS

February 19, 2007

With a little help from Mike Volodarksy’s tutorial I’m up and running with RubyOnRails using a native FastCGI implementation. This is a big deal because it’ll mean that Microsoft will provide a supported way of running Rails applications. In addition, PHP applications will be able to run with greater performance and reliability thanks to the [...]

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RailsConf Review

July 2, 2006

It’s just over a week since I returned from the First International Rails Conference in Chicago and I’ve had some time to reflect on my experiences and put a few photos online. This was the first open source conference I have attended and it was a truly enlightening experience. I had the pleasure of meeting [...]

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Waiting for DHH and O’Reilly hosting the next RailsConf!

June 24, 2006

It’s been a great second day of presentations at RailsConf and I’m waiting with Mike Bailey and Jim Freeze for a speech from David Heinemeier Hansson. Chad Fowler has just announced that O’Reilly are hosting the next RailsConf. So book some time off for May 17-20, 2007 in Portland, Oregon!

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RailsConf – Day One

June 23, 2006

On Wednesday night I arrived in Chicago, IL for the first ever Ruby on Rails conference. My Southwest flight from Philly was delayed for two hours so I didn’t get to my hotel till 2.30am on Thursday. After less sleep than I had planned for, I went along to the Rails Guidebook. This was a [...]

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