“We cannot remind ourselves too often that it is not our believing in things that makes them true. We believe them because they are true.” — Handel H. Brown
Author: Matthew
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Jason Rudolph talks Grails at the JUG next week
Jason Rudolph, local Groovy/Grails aficianado and Raleigh.rb regular, will be presenting at the RTP Java Users Group next Monday evening.
Scott Davis “got Groovy” with the JUG in April. Now Jason will show us how Groovy’s deliciousness has been brought to bear on the world of web application frameworks. Grails is another mutation of Rails for the Java platform, promising rapid deployment, joyful coding, and as little XML as possible.
Pizza arrives at 6:30 PM and the talk starts at 7. Post a comment here if you’re planning on attending and your first soda is on me. 😉
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Automating file uploads with SSH and Ruby
Are you fairly new to Ruby programming? Do you want to learn more about how Ruby can be used as the “glue” to script various libraries into harmonious cooperation? Look no further…
InfoQ recently published an article I wrote last year about how to automate file uploads to a web server with Ruby’s Net::SSH and Net::SFTP libraries. It’s a fairly lengthy tutorial with plenty of code samples.
Looking back, the script I created could pretty easily be reproduced in Capistrano today. But isn’t it sometimes more fun (not to mention educational) to write something from scratch? I sure think so.
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Ken Auer at the Agile RTP meeting tonight
Ken Auer (of RoleModel Software and XP fame) will be speaking at the Agile RTP meeting here in Raleigh tonight. I used to work at RMS and am interested in hearing Ken’s take on agile methods once again. The year I spent at his studio was some of the best personal growth time I’ve ever experienced. If you’re in the area, swing by Frankie’s at Brier Creek tonight to join us!
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Lone Star Ruby Conf now accepting proposals
For those of you interested in a trip to sunny Austin, the Lone Star Ruby Conf is now accepting speaker proposals. LSRC is a regional conference similar to the Ruby Hoedown that’s coming to Raleigh in August. It’s great to see these regional conferences taking off.
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Getting started with Streamlined (part 1)
If you were one of the unfortunate souls who missed RailsConf this year, I’m sorry for you. If you happened to be at RailsConf but missed Justin Gehtland’s excellent Streamlined tutorial then you are truly of all people most pitiable.
On a more serious note, the tutorial was very good and has sparked a lot of interesting ideas for further enhancing Streamlined beyond its already hefty feature set. For those who don’t know, Streamlined is a Rails plugin that brings the declarative goodness of ActiveRecord to the UI. It enhances your views with full-featured scaffolds that include relationship management, quick adding of associated models, and much more.
If you haven’t played with Streamlined before, why not give it a try? With several fresh screencasts over at the blog, a bundle of new documentation, a new sample project, and version 1.0 on the horizon… there’s no time like the present.
Getting started with Streamlined is easy…
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Speaking at NCHE again this year
For the homeschoolers who read my blog, I’ll be speaking at the North Carolinians for Home Education (NCHE) state conference in Winston-Salem again this year. I’m giving my distance education talk on Saturday, May 26th, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM in South Main 3. A few of the points I’ll cover include:
- Why distance education is a good alternative to traditional college for homeschool graduates
- How I earned my own four-year degree through distance education
- Which colleges currently offer distance education and how to choose wisely from among them
- An overview of the different methods that can be used to earn credit through distance education (portfolio review, CLEP, etc.)
There will be a few surprises too! I hope to see you there.
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Slides from my RailsConf talk
For those who may have missed my talk at RailsConf, you can download the slides to get a better idea of what the talk was all about.
I had a blast, by the way! The audience seemed to enjoy it, and I was pleasantly surprised at the number of questions people had about Teascript and the process of building it. About a dozen people came up to me afterwards saying that they had an idea they were mulling over, and my talk had inspired them to get started on it.
I’ll probably be writing a couple of follow up articles that go into more detail on how homesteading worked for me. I didn’t have enough time to cover everything I wanted to at the presentation due to the enthusiastic response from the audience. To those who attended, thanks for being there and making the talk a success!
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RailsConf ’07 wrap up
Portland is rapidly fading into the distance as I fly back towards Raleigh. I’ve enjoyed the past six days immensely. The Ruby/Rails community continues to surprise me with its passion, dedication, and downright uber-geekiness. The highlight of the conference for me was the time spent between talks and during meals, sharing ideas and experiences with other developers. I’m totally worn out now, but I’m already looking forward to next year’s Conf.
Not everything was peachy keen, though. There are several things that bothered me about the Conf this year…
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Let the Conf begin
I just arrived in Portland a few hours ago for RailsConf ’07. I’m looking forward to attending the tutorial sessions tomorrow, not to mention watching presentations by fellow Rails geeks on Friday and Saturday. My own talk on homesteading and Teascript will be given on Saturday at 10:45 AM for those who are interested. Hope to see you there!