Kudos to my brother and the rest of the guys at Monopost for cleaning up the bad audio as best they can.
Ruote in 20 minutes from Kenneth Kalmer on Vimeo.
The original post of the presentation is over here.
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Getting the Ruby 1.9 ball rolling
Labnotes » I switched to Ruby 1.9 (and you should too) http://bit.ly/ue1XI
— Ruby Update (@rupdate) August 14, 2009
After I read this post on Labnotes I decided to “take the plunge” into the world of Ruby 1.9 properly. I mean, I was at RubyKaigi...
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Looking beyond daemon-kit 0.2
I wrote daemon-kit to solve two big issues with writing daemon processes in Ruby:
- Everyone is re-inventing the daemons gem
- Individual daemons share a lot common code, apart from the daemonizing bits
As for #1, daemon-kit at first wrapped the...
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DaemonKit Lightning Talk RubyKaigi 2009
Undoubtedly my worst time on stage ever! Ubuntu gave me issues with the projector, so I actually had to leave the stage to go to another conference hall to get the setup working again and run back up to the main hall… Once there, I was a mumbling...
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Getting “copy friendly” with jQuery
When I’m not busy writing backends for large service provisioning platforms, I get to spend some time in the user-facing interfaces of these platforms. We’ve prided ourselves so far on maintaining cross browser compatibility (excluding IE6), and to...
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Driving Business Processes in Ruby
Decisions decisions, as Ruby developers we face them every day. Some are easier to make than others, they have the ability to shape or break a project (even a business). We’ve faced the decisions of ActiveRecord or DataMapper, jQuery or Prototype,...
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Cleaning up your act, with a little handsoap
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daemon-kit Progress Report
Since I last announced Capistrano support for daemon-kit, a few other things have happened that is steadily moving the project forward. Here is a synopsis of them all:
No more daemons
Sounds contradictory, but I’ve stripped out the daemons gem as...
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Capistrano for your daemons
Nothing like some possitive feedback to keep you looking after your own projects, and the feedback on daemon-kit has been great so far. My TODO list is growing every day with more features that I need, and others need as well. I mostly add features...
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Safety nets for your Ruby daemons
Daemon-kit has been getting a lot of TLC from me lately, and it’s not going to stop anytime soon. As I wander deeper and deeper into AMQP territory, I need to extend daemon-kit to cope with all kinds of new scenarios. One of those being unhandled exceptions...