Practicalmadness

DHH Does Yr Keynotes After an ukelele-and-TextMate-themed intro by Rich and Chad from RubyCentral, the king of arrogant bastards himself — Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson — has taken the stage. The sweet candy center of his talk today will...

This morning I’m working on a little client project that involves passing messages between a Ruby on Rails app and a dead-simple worker process using Amazon’s Simple Queue Service (SQS). Before last week I’d certainly heard of SQS, but I’d...

Well, it's been a crazy couple of months, but over the weekend I finally got serious about writing the long-awaited (by somebody, I hope) revamp of Practicalmadness.com.

See, the Rails community is so on the cutting edge, we’re not even waiting until the first RailsConf is over before announcing the second one. RailsConf 2007 will be held May 17-20 next year at the Oregon Convention Center in...

This isn’t everything that happened on Day 1 — specifically I’m leaving out the part about finding Battlestar Galactica toys at Target — but here’s a rough summary of my experience so far: Thursday Night I went to the ThoughtWorks...

Well, I survived that. My talk on positioning “the new hotness” (i.e., Web 2.0) to laypersons just ended, and I can say this: the warm responses make the week of terror entirely worth it. I went ten minutes over my...

Here's a shocker for you: after almost six years, I am strongly considering dumping Movable Type in favor of Blrb, my own brand-new blogging engine built in Ruby on Rails.

I may need some kind of event announcement thing for the Oscars Party, but I'm no longer convinced that Cmere has a bright future as the "web 2.0 Evite." But a simple little app that e-mails announcements and generates attractive event pages? Hey, why not?