I’m amazed by how often DHH can keep coming up with newer, simpler, and more elegant approaches to web development that really make you think. In his recent blog entry/keynote he discusses using HTTP’s PUT and DELETE methods to more elegantly model CRUD operations (slides of his presentation are here) and this is a good 3rd party summary of his keynote:
So rather than the old school approach of:
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I attended the June 12th, 2006 San Francisco Ruby Meetup at CNet which was my first. There was quite a turnout, I’d guess maybe 80-90 people. The presentations focused more on process and lessons rather than in-depth technical sessions. Here are my notes: (more…)
In my previous post I wrote about setting MySQL to a stricter sql-mode to make it behave like most other databases, however, I recently ran into a case where I couldn’t set the global sql-mode without breaking some legacy applications. I imagine this is also often the case when you host on a shared server where a global configuration change would be out of the question.
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I’ve been using Subversion for just about everything I work on including keeping my documents synchronized across multiple computers, backups, source control, etc… I got the idea a while back from Martin Fowler’s Bliki who uses it for a similar purpose. All you need to host your own Subversion repository is a shell account on a machine that you can SSH into. Sure, you could create a repository on your local machine (more…)
I live in San Francisco and work as a consultant to Common Sense Media and Greatschools.
I stopped working full-time back in October of 2007 so we could take 8 months off and sail down to Mexico. And no, I'm not a dot com millionaire that's retired, I still need to work for a living.
Our boat is in Mexico right now and we'll be going down for another 6 months starting in February of 2009. When we get back in August of 2009 I'll start looking for another full-time CTO job.
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