Dave Thomas Video From Lone Star Ruby Conference 2009
Functional Programming Workshop 2009 Videos
I know this site is all about Ruby, but this is just too awesome.
http://www.vimeo.com/album/128851
Scaling Success Story
My buddy at work sent me this link.
http://highscalability.com/how-ravelry-scales-10-million-requests-using-rails
See, it’s not all that bad.
My Excuses…
Here is a list of reasons why you haven’t seen much contents me lately.
1- Projects. I have a family to feed.
2- Summer!
3- Snow Leopard – yup, it broke may apps.
4- Load balancer. It’s always trendy to blame everything on load balancer, such an easy target…;)
5- Scala – I bet you’d never hear that from me.
I’ll create more content really soon, I promise. I’m working on creating a screencast on scalable REST service architecture using Rack/Sinatra and will create a series on how to architect scalable system. In case you don’t know, I created a system running on every continent except Antarctica.
RubyConf Sold Out in 1 Day!
Guess I’m not going to RubyConf…:(
Rails 2.3.4
Please upgrade your Rails 2.3.x to the latest Rails 2.3.4 released this morning. It’s a security update. In other words, DO IT NOW!
Interesting Phrases I Learned…
I’ve learned, and still learning lots of interesting phrases ever since I dove into Ruby and Rails. I just wanted to say that just about every phrases are from Rails crowd.
1. “fuck you, read the code” or “read the fucking code”
2. “google it before asking”
3. “just use a plugin, it’s DRY”
4. “oh, we don’t document because we’re agile”
5. “fuck” – apparently a requirement for Rails developers
I now get all Zed Shaw’s jokes.
How to become successful Rubyist
Dmitry Belitsky asked famous Rubyists same set of questions on “How to become successful Rubyist”. I really enjoyed the answers, but just one “fuck you”. I’d LOVE to work on open source projects and will in the future, but really, how many grown-ups with a job and a family has the time? I once had a beautiful English garden in my backyard…
