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 [...]
Updated LinkedIn Blog Post
If yellowpages.com or a whole bunch of other sites or the Friends for Sale facebook app wasn’t enough to convince you, that yes, you are on the right track with Rails (no pun intended).
Another solid Rails app has been mentioned in mainstream media http://blogs.zdnet.com/enterprisealley/?p=188 blogs about a Facebook app done [...]
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 [...]
Read moreA 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 [...]
Read moreIf you’re in Toronto and been living under a rock you probably haven’t realised that every month, there are a number of events specifically for Ruby/Rails developers.
There’s the ever popular and well attended Rails Pub Nite - great for networking and an excuse to have a pint or two. If this sounds like your [...]
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.
Read more(At least on Leopard with Ruby 1.8.6)
Ruby will try to reload rmagick if you get the case of rmagick different from the original require. And when that happens it all goes up the whop.
We were using attachment_fu’s image magick processor, then doing a require ‘rmagick’ seperately which resulted in tonnes of errors like this [...]
From a blanket spam email I (and probably a good portion of the rails community just received)
“I have a direct client who is seeking a strong Programmer who posses experience with Rudy on Rails. If you are qualified and interested, please send me your most current resume in a word.doc format to..”
Yes, Rudy was actually [...]
More work on XChain. In some spare hours on the weekend I implemented the basic structure of price catalogues for products. I can’t tell you how long this took when previously doing it in PHP a few years back! (or even worse ASP a few years further back still). I’m sold on BDD, it was [...]
Read moreUPDATE Jul 2008 - The API for BackgroundRB has changed and docs improved significantly since this blog post. Read the latest API calls over here http://backgroundrb.rubyforge.org/rails/. Don’t reference the Rails code below if using latest BackgroundRB
As soon as you start doing anything with photos sooner or later someone says “It would be really nice to [...]
Rowan is a Product Development Manager, specialising in architecting, developing and putting web applications into production - in particular Ruby on Rails based apps. He lives in Toronto, Canada but speaks in a funny accent as he's originally from New Zealand. He's been working in the software and web business for over a decade. This blog covers Web Application development and deployment in the real world, dealing with topics from business fundamentals to Ruby on Rails, Merb, PHP, Flex, MySQL, Apache and more.
