My new home town (not just the place I live, but now HOMEtown) rocks. The unspace crew did a freaking amazing job on RubyFringe. Joey has a huge list of notes on his blog if you want some nitty gritty.
For me personally, here’s the stand outs…
- I have to say Damien Katz’s presentation was [...]

Last night was yet another successful Toronto Ruby on Rails Nite put on by Corina Newby. The Toronto ruby community is rocking, evidenced by the large turnouts and fresh faces we see everytime. I’d guess 40-50 of Toronto’s best and brightest Rails developers filled out the room. The unspace guys put on some much appreciated [...]

A while ago I was looking at all of the events going on in Toronto, mailing lists, *camps wondering how the heck does anyone get to know what’s going on?. Particularly those who are new to the scene ? After talking to a couple of people and realising the need for one central place to [...]

If you’re getting to this page from searching “Rails vs Merb” I suggest you read/view this presentation I did http://work.rowanhick.com/2008/06/11/toronto-rails-night-merb-presentation/
Following on from my presentation last week, I had someone mention I should look at Merb+Datamapper if I’m looking for something awesomely fast. So I decided to put it to the test. This is a *completely* [...]

Tutorial/presentation given to Toronto Rails Project nite on how to optimise Ruby on Rails/Activerecord for high performance sites. Details of :select and :include problem in ActiveRecord and how to work around it.