http://productive.dk Ruby on Rails Consulting and Application Development Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:42:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This week I launched a new site for The Scrum Training Institute at "scrumtraininginstitute.com":http://scrumtraininginstitute.com. If you're getting started with Scrum or Agile these are the experts you want to learn from! Currently their team consists of Jeff Sutherland (co-creator of Scrum), Jens Østergaard (a fellow dane), Gabrielle Benefield and Pete ... http://productive.dk/2008/09/18/scrum-training-institute-on-rails.html If you are running the just released Rails 2.1.0 and have disabled ActiveRecord, you will likely run into problems launching script/server. The culprit is the new config/initializers/new_rails_defaults.rb, which should test to see if ActiveRecord is loaded. The "bug report is here":http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/303-configs-initializers-new_rails_defaults-rb-should-check-for-disabled-frameworks#ticket-303-2 and the patch "AR can be disabled, new_rails_defaults.rb should check" has ... http://productive.dk/2008/06/03/rails-210-without-a-database.html I don't usually work on "plain old websites", but I had an itch to try out "Radiant CMS":http://radiantcms.org, and so I decided to take a small gig building a showcase site for a real estate developer (or property developer, depending on which side of the pond you're on). So far Radiant ... http://productive.dk/2008/02/06/my-latest-radiant-project-is-now-live.html "Pragmatic Dave on Passion, Skill and 'Having A Blast'":http://www.infoq.com/interviews/dave-thomas-agile-passion: bq. ... you should be investigating your tools set and you should be trying different techniques and different ways of doing things. And maybe then, more and more it looks back into practices. And that's not just to make you better at ... http://productive.dk/2008/01/29/java-programmer-equals-maintenance.html David "just announced":http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2008/1/20/railsconf-europe-08-get-your-proposals-in "RailsConf Europe '08":http://www.railsconfeurope.com/: bq. The conference is returning to Berlin and the conference will happen between the 2nd and 4th of September. Registration will open in May 2008. Hope to see you there. http://productive.dk/2008/01/21/railsconf-2008-europe-announced.html You can now "submit your proposal":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/cfp/6 for "RailsConf 2008":http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/ taking place May 29-June 1, in Portland. With that off my chest, I can move on to the real purpose for this post: The photo, taken at RailsConf 2007 and featured on the frontpage of the RailsConf 2008 site, has yours truly ... http://productive.dk/2007/10/30/railsconf-2008-submit-your-proposals.html *Exploits of a Mom* Now why didn't I think of that? Naming your kids Magnus and Frida suddenly seems very unoriginal. From "xkcd":http://xkcd.com. http://productive.dk/2007/10/11/sanitize-your-database-inputs.html Just got in. Looking forward to lots of fun in the coming days. I'll be tumbling my notes at "railsconf07.productive.dk":http://railsconf07.productive.dk/. *If you need a freelancer for your (next) project, come find me and lets talk*. If you don't need a freelancer, come have a chat anyway ;) http://productive.dk/2007/09/17/at-railsconf-europe-in-berlin.html Or as "Joel Spolsky puts it":http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/08/18.html: bq. I've been using Vista on my home laptop since it shipped, and can say with some conviction that nobody should be using it as their primary operating system -- it simply has no redeeming merits to overcome the compatibility headaches it causes. Whenever anyone ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/20/its-official-vista-blows.html As described in the "Calling TextMate from Other Applications":http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/using_textmate_from_terminal chapter in the "TextMate Manual":http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ bq. There is one command which does not support giving arguments in the EDITOR variable, it is crontab (which is sort of obsoleted by launchd). If you need to use it, you can create a symbolic link ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/17/making-textmate-and-sqlplus-play-nice.html Apple released a bunch of new and updated products today: * "New iMacs":http://www.apple.com/imac/. I would buy one today if I had the slightest use for it. It looks absolutely gorgeous. * "Updated Mac minis":http://www.apple.com/macmini/. Yay! We can still get cheap Mac servers. * "New wired and wireless keyboards":http://www.apple.com/keyboard/. I love the wireless without ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/07/apple-updates-today.html As you and my two other visitors (including Googlebot) might have noticed, I changed the look of the site. The old "Blix":http://www.kingcosmonaut.de/blix/ theme I've been using for the past two years was beginning to look a little dated, and I also seemed to bump into blogs using it more and ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/06/new-theme.html p. Seems good ol' "Synacor(Synacor, Inc.)":http://www.synacor.com/ finally "decided to go public(Synacor Files for IPO: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance)":http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070802/synacor_ipo.html: bq. NEW YORK (AP) -- Synacor Inc., an Internet platform provider, filed for an initial public offering of its shares of common stock. The Buffalo, N.Y.-based company plans to use the proceeds from ... http://productive.dk/2007/08/04/synacor-files-for-ipo.html "InfoQ":http://www.infoq.com has an interesting article on "whether specific technology knowledge matter when recruiting":http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/08/buzzword-driven-recruiting. The short answer: No -- although most companies don't realize this. Make sure you check out "the Flickr photo of a Ruby job ad":http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=516427456&size=l, it got quite a few laughs at RailsConf. http://productive.dk/2007/08/02/buzzword-driven-recruiting.html "Atlantic Dominion Solutions":http://www.techcfl.com has posted a "JRuby on Rails screencast":http://www.techcfl.com/blog/?p=150. It is based on their excellent first JRuby tutorial, "Get JRuby onto the Rails on Mac OS X":http://www.techcfl.com/blog/?p=109. bq. Someone told me that watching a video is more fun that reading something. So much for the library I have sitting here ... http://productive.dk/2007/07/21/jruby-on-rails-screencast.html