Installing ImageMagick on Snow Leopard
Need to install ImageMagick on Snow Leopard? Checkout this and run it!
HTML5 Introduction Screencast
Watch it here => http://bit.ly/aOKryY
What Is Vagrant?
Well, I was asking the same question, so here’s the screencast.
Vagrant – Getting Started from Mitchell Hashimoto on Vimeo.
SproutCore Screencasts
Do you think jQuery is the only JavaScript framework? I’m thinking about using SproutCore on my next project. If you want to find out more, check out the screencasts at http://screencasts.sproutcore.com.
Click here for the introduction presentation video.
CoffeeScript
I thought it was a crazy talk when I first heard that JavaScript will be the next Assembly Language. Well, I learned today that we’re one step closer with CoffeeScript.
The documentation is so good that I won’t even go into details here. Just click on the linky and find out for yourself. Basically it compiles into clean JavaScript.
Please don’t compare this to SASS and HAML crap!
2010 Gotham Ruby Conference Video (GoRuCo)
Wow, even more awesome contents.
MongoNYC Video Now Online!
I was there, but if you missed it, you can watch the video of MongoNYC at http://mongodb.blip.tv now.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
*** Update ***
Forget curl, just download and install wget => “If you’re using a Mac and don’t have wget installed, then replace wget with curl -O”
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Now that the videos are fixed, I was watching Jim Weirich’s keynote at this year’s Red Dirt Ruby Conference. He mentioned the book “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” and what he was doing with it. So I got really interested.
Before I go any further, I don’t have a “computer science” background. When I started computing, there weren’t much and I did things without knowing the name. Take TDD for example. I always thought that people programmed that way and as far as I’ve seen, all the “old” people did it that way. What offends me the most is some asshole comes along and puts a label on it and I’m suppose to know what that is.
Ok, back to the subject at hand. You can purchase this book for $68 or view it online for free at HERE. You can also get the video of the course that uses this as the text from MIT’s Opencourceware by running following script I wrote for you. Here’s the link to MIT 6001.
First run the script below.
Then run the following script to clean up the file name.
The primary reason why I go through the beginner’s stuff is that whenever I go into an interview, I get asked basic computer science questions because people interviewing me never worked on any real applications and the only thing they know is what they learned from school.
In any case, this surely is an interesting exercise and I’m enjoying it.
RailsConf 2010 DHH Keynote Video
Tech Founders NYC
I became a CTO by getting in very early stage of a company. The more the company grew, better my situation got and for eight years, I enjoyed the greatest ride of my life. Now that I’m looking for the second “hit”, I thought it was really interesting the Francis Hwang of NYC.RB fame organized this.
From the website at http://techfounders.heroku.com
We are a group of technical founders and programmers who are interested in joining or helping launch startups. We invite early-stage tech entrepreneurs to pitch to the toughest audience around — computer programmers.
We choose entrepreneurs who are looking for an early-stage technical partner and whose ideas sound interesting to us, and we let them try to convince a room full of programmers to take a chance on their company.
Considering the fact that Rails is the darling of startups, you should really give this event a look if you’re in NYC area and looking to get into a company from the ground floor.
