Everyone’s talking about their 2009 goals now, I guess the New Year tends to do that to people. Not to feel left out, I’m posting my 2009 goals. As a freelancer and a software developer, a lot of them are about building new software applications and learning technology. One thing I learned in 2008, was …
Tag: rails
RailsConf 2008 Summary
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 …
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 …
Interesting Links #4
I’ve been scrambling this past week trying to close out a few projects before I start on some new ones. Here are a few links that came across my wanderings: Generating the code for an older version of Rails – A customer asked me how to generate a stock Rails application from an older release. …