I attended Open Source Bridge was last week, and have to say it was the best conference I’ve been to (I’ve only been to half a dozen). The variety of content kept the conference interesting and it was nice for me to finally meet others in the Portland tech community. I took a bunch of …
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On Safari – A web app to check SafariBooksOnline.com
Earlier today I launched my very first Sinatra app, OnSafari. OnSafari is a tool to check if a book is available on Safari Books. I’m been a member of Safari Books for several years now and I’m constantly wondering if a book I’m looking at at a bookstore is on Safari or not. OnSafari will …
A Positive Change for the Rails Community – RailsBridge.org
As any community grows, it will encounter challenges. Depending on how the members respond, the community will grow, shrink, or even be wiped out completely. Last week the Ruby on Rails community was presented with a challenge during a regional conference. Without getting into the details, the community mishandled the challenge and hurt many members …
Redmineblog.com – The Official Redmine blog
I’m happy to announce the launch of one of my Redmine side projects, the RedmineBlog.com. It will be the official blog for Redmine and will be another place the community can meet and topics discussed. From the About page: We will be writing about various components of Redmine and it’s community including: Community news Detailed …
Redmine Budget plugin v0.2.0 released (finally)
I’ve just uploaded a new release of the Redmine Budget plugin. The Budget plugin is a plugin for Redmine to manage the set of deliverables for each project, automatically calculating key performance indicators. This is a long awaited release that will fix many of the outstanding bugs and incompatibilities that have cropped up. Download The …