Posts tagged toronto:

My RubyFringe highlights

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 [...]

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RubyFringe a new brand of awesomeness

Opening night and day 1 are over. Just about to go pick Krispy and head down for day two. Truly, my mate mates down at Unspace have done an AWESOME job. The vibe is amazing. A lot of “best conference ever” comments going round.

Yes.. those are laptops waving in the air, and yes [...]

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Toronto Rails Night - Merb Presentation

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 [...]

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TorontoRB.ca

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 [...]

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Toronto Ruby / Rails madness

If 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 [...]

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How to Avoid Hanging Yourself with Rails

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.

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About

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.

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