RailsConf 2008 is over and I’ve had some time to rest and recollect my thoughts on the sessions. Below is a quick summary of the main ideas I picked up in each session. Friday 5/30/2008 (Day 1) Joel Spolsky keynote – The UI should help the user. Entrepreneurs on Rails – Work will always come …
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Refactoring and Open Source – RailsConf 2008 – Day 1
I went to two tutorial tracks yesterday, Refactoring Your Rails Application and Refactotum: Contributing to Open Source. Refactoring Your Rails Application Refactoring Your Rails Application was good presentation by Zach Dennis and Drew Colthorp. It was great to see how some advanced Rails developers do some advanced refactorings but I got lost as they rushed …
RailsConf 2008
RailsConf 2008 officially starts tomorrow and I’m all ready to go. If you want to look for me, look for the Rails developer who doesn’t have a Mac (I have an older Dell). Thursday Schedule 7:30am – 8:00am Continental Breakfast 8:30am – 12:00pm Refactoring Your Rails Application 1:30pm – 5:00pm Refactotum: Contributing to Open Source …
Redmine Customer Plugin
I’m happy to announce that I’m finally Open Sourcing my Redmine Customer plugin. This is the plugin that I use to track my customer information for each project in Redmine. Features For this first release, I implemented the most basic features. Store Customer data Associate a Customer for each project Permissions to control user access …
Progress Review – April 2008
In my last review, I thought I was overbooked for only the first half of April. By the end of the month, I ended up being overbooked the entire month. Good news is I worked on a a couple of really cool projects. Bad news is I didn’t make any progress on my goals. April …