Interesting Things
- If you're on Rails 2.3+ you can use NestedScenarios instead of FixtureScenarios and FixtureScenarioBuilder and your life will be better.
Ask for Help
The Pre Dev Camp in San Francisco is looking for a home this weekend. If you have a location you can donate that can hold about 150 people with laptops, has power and wifi, please contact the organizer, Luke Kilpatri at (650) 745-5302 or luke@lukek.ca
"Does anyone have experience, good or bad, with RJB (the Ruby to Java bridge)?" General consensus was murmur murmur murmur no.
Ask for Help
"Does anyone have Nginx URL rewriting fu?"
The pretty documentation is actually quite hard to work with. Does anyone else have a good reference?
Interesting Things
- Pivotal in the New York Times: Regarding Palm Pre development and our own Tweed:
Some developers who were granted early access to Palm's new operating system said it was worth the wait. "We find it's the easiest one to develop for," said Christian Sepulveda, vice president for business development at Pivotal Labs. "It allows for a richer experience, like having a pop-up menu and background processing, which is helpful."
Mr. Sepulveda's company developed four of the first programs available for download through Palm’s app store, including an item for Twitter called Tweed.
- The next SF Ruby Meetup will be held here at Pivotal Labs. Sign up) and attend!
- BART strike warning! In the Bay Area we take our commute options seriously. Here are your options if BART goes on strike