Posted by kev
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:04:00 GMT
They’re all up at once. Wow.
Mine felt good, but it’s long. Rather long. 50 minutes fairly non-stop, ~600 megs long. Find some time before watching.
Episode 036: The Return of Kevin Clark
Kevin Clark takes a break from Powerset to give a full-throttle talk
on using Merb as a JSON-RPC service, god, gem2rpm, and heckle.
Episode 035: ActiveRecord Backup & MimetypeFu
Matt Aimonetti demonstrates his newest plugins: ActiveRecord Backup
and MimetypeFu.
Episode 034: Intro to JRuby
Brian Chapados shows how to install and work with the latest JRuby
release.
Episode 033: Life on Edge
If you’re a Rails junkie, you’ll want to develop on Edge Rails. Matt
Clark explains how to get started and shares some of the challenges
of working on Edge.
Episode 032: Capistrano
Rob Kaufman takes on Capistrano 2. What is it? How does it work?
What’s changed since version 1?
Episode 031: Seaside
Roger Whitney explores Seaside, the web application framework based
on Smalltalk.
Episode 030: Tuneshelf
Dominic Damian talks about his experiences building Tuneshelf, a web
application that allows music fans to keep track of their favorite
music albums.
Episode 029: Big Stinking Piles (of data)
What do you do when third-party data vendors don’t speak REST? Rob
Kaufman discuss real-world techniques for importing and exporting
data. (This talk was also given at RailsConf 2007.)
Episode 028: Simple Sidebar Plugin
Ryan Felton shows how to use Simple Sidebar plugin to DRY up sidebar
content in applications.
Episode 027: Headliner and Styler
Patrick Crowley talks about his newest plugins: Headliner and Styler.
Episode 026: ActsAsSolr
Rob Kaufman shows how easy it is to integrate Solr powered search
into your Rails application using the ActsAsSolr plugin.
Episode 025: Ajax CSS Star Rating with ActsAsRateable
Ryan Felton shows off how to build an Ajax-powered, CSS star rater
using the ActsAsRateable plugin and Komodo Media’s CSS Star Rating
Redux technique.
Episode 024: Using Ruby + Amazon SQS to build backdoors
Brian Chapados talks about using Ruby and Amazon’s Simple Que Service
web service to build backdoors into systems.
Posted in Ruby, sd.rb | 2 comments
Posted by kev
Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:48:00 GMT
The talk on REST basics I mentioned last month has hit the SD.rb podcast. I cover REST concepts and basics and Chris Abad has one immediately following on using web services (for free).
And if you haven’t seen Chronic, the lean, mean, completely awesome natural language date/time parser from sd.rber Tom Werner, do take a look at his presentation. It’s really a beautiful thing.
Update: You can grab the slides for my presentation here. I should have repeated the questions as they came in for the podcast viewers, but since I didn’t they were roughly:
- If browsers don’t support the other HTTP verbs, how does Rails pass the other methods like DELETE and PUT?
- Are there other HTTP verbs besides the CRUDy ones?
Posted in Ruby, sd.rb, sightings | 3 comments
Posted by kev
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:20:00 GMT
A few of the sd.rbers are planning to take the train to Denver next month. The trip will take about a day and a half. I’m planning to go. The view should be great and it’ll give me some time to work on my presentation if needed.
The train does go through LA, so if you’re in the Southern California area this may be right up your alley.
More information can be found at Patrick Crowley’s blog. So go check out the RubyConf Express!
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Posted by kev
Fri, 08 Sep 2006 19:52:00 GMT
Today Chris Abad of the sd.rb podcast uploaded four new episodes:
In Episode 004: Numbers Tom Preston-Werner (of [Gravatar], Chronic) gives the first part of a series I hope he’ll continue called “Ruby is Awesome”. This talk focuses on interesting things about how Ruby handled numbers. Though this sounds really basic, he showed things that I had never come across and kept my attention. If you’re newish to Ruby this is definitely worth your attention. Go take a look.
Episode 005: ARTS Plugin is my presentation on using ARTS to build test driven RJS. This is from the second meeting of sd.rb so the first part is full of Rails basics. If you’re interested in seeing ARTS in action (used to build an ajaxified blog) you probably want to skip to about 1/3 of the way in.
Episode 006: Dynamic Domains features Chris Abad talking about his new application [Outlandish] and how they implemented dynamic domains.
Finally, in Episode 007: Rails Authentication I talk very briefly about how to use the acts_as_authenticated and restful_authentication plugins. At some point I begin rambling about how REST works, but that part is best left for when the podcast of last night’s REST presentations go up. I’ll point you there when it happens.
Posted in Rails, Ruby, sd.rb, sightings | 3 comments
Posted by kev
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:13:00 GMT
If you’re in San Diego (or even Southern California) we’d love you to drop by the sd.rb meeting tonight. Chris Abad and I will be talking about RESTful stuff in Rails and Tom Preston-Werner will be debuting his new natural time parsing library, Chronic.
We have our meetings at the UCSD CSE buildng (room 1202). If you want to drop me an email at kevin dot clark at gmail dot com I’ll give you my cell in case you get lost.
I hear OC Ruby may be making a field trip. See their list if you want to get in on that.
Addtionally, several OC Rubyists and SD Rubyists are planning to meet up at Rock Bottom just off campus around 6:15 for dinner. Come hang out.
If you can’t make it the sd.rb podcast is always an option and I’m told you should be getting several updates from the last meeting in the next couple days. Keep a look out.
Posted in sd.rb, sightings
Posted by kev
Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:35:00 GMT
Where do you stand on the Rails spectrum? Are you a Ruby wiz who’s released plugins, libraries, and patches to core? More likely you’re closer to the other end of the spectrum: tinkering, interested, but haven’t shipped an app.
Well, for all the tinkerers out there you’ve got some new motivation. Patrick Crowley of sd.rb is starting a project he’s calling Summer of Rails. It’s sort of a Rails Day meets Summer of Code meets “get your butt in gear and ship something already”. It’s an excuse for everyone who’s been interested in Rails but just hasn’t done it.
So, get on it! Write your app, badge it as a Summer of Code project and stop procrastinating. As new projects start coming in they’ll be getting the spotlight at the Summer of Rails site so others can bask in your new found magnificence.
Just do it!
Posted in Rails, sd.rb, sightings | 1 comment
Posted by kev
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:50:00 GMT
If you’re in the San Diego area this evening you should stop by the sd.rb meeting.
On the agenda:
- Tom Werner, Part 1 of the “Ruby is Awesome” Series
- Joe Chesak, Search with Rails
- Kevin Clark, Test Driven RJS with ARTS
You can find more information on the mailing list.
Posted in Ruby, sd.rb, sightings
Posted by kev
Mon, 08 May 2006 20:05:00 GMT
Chris Van Pelt of sd.rb has released Ajax Spy a great debugging tool for RJS templates.
It only requires adding two files to your project and a bit of javascript_include_tag lovin in your layout. Go check it out.
Posted in Web Dev, Rails, Ruby, sd.rb
Posted by kev
Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:05:00 GMT
Yesterday the first real sd.rb meeting was held on campus at UCSD. Final count put us a 30 people, so we’re off to a great start.
If you’re in the San Diego area, and you’d like to join in, we’re having talks on the first Thursday of each month and a hack session on the third Wednesday, so we’ll meet again on the 19th to code.
Additionaly, Anthony Moralez is gathering Riverside.rb. I’ll have more information for you Riverside kids (where to make contact) soon.
Update: via Anthony
I don’t have a web site up, but the list is at
https://www.cs.ucr.edu/mailman/listinfo/rug and my brief blog entry
announcing it is at
http://anthonysseblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/forming-riversiderb.html
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Posted by kev
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:17:00 GMT
Following my Rails for Designers article, I’ve gotten several people in the San Diego area who would like to start the San Diego Ruby (and Rails!) Users Group back up. Mingle has graciously agreed to host, and we’re working out times right now. I’ll be getting access to the old mailing list soon. If you’re interested in getting information about the group, please send me an email at kevin dot clark at gmail dot com and I’ll keep you informed.
Update: I’ve got a mailing list up.
Update #2: If you want to get caught up, check out the archives here.
One more: If you want to weigh in on when the meeting should be (Wednesday or Thursday nights), mosey on over the the SDRUG Availability Poll.
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