October 24, 2009 at 7:00PM • 22 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 24, 2008.
Jacqui Maher talks about the technical challenges involved in writing Rails apps for a medical team in Malawi. Pat Allan encourages Rails developers to volunteer their time and skills.
Developers from Intridea discuss hacking Rails internals, UI design, and mid-end development.
From RailsConf 2008 in Berlin.
Also mentioned:
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October 23, 2009 at 8:23AM
Links for this episode:
- "EECI 2009":http://eeci2009.com this Thursday and Friday in Leiden, The Netherlands. Ryan will be speaking on Thursday at 17:35 on "10 Ways to Supercharge Your EE Development." Ryan will also be covering the conference at EE Insider and here at the EE Podcast.
- "Second wave of EE 2.0 Beta Phase 2 invites":http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/132348/ have been sent out. If you're in, you're in. If you're not, oh noes!
- "Getting to No":http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getting-to-no/ by Greg Hoy talks about what to consider when picking new clients. "I've learned that the hardest part isn't closing the deal, but figuring out which deals are actually worth closing."
- "Hop Inject":http://www.hopstudios.com/software/hop_inject lets you insert something (ads, text) between paragraphs of your entry.
- "Modulo Operator plugin":http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/132133 let's you calculate the modulo value. A common operation in PHP, this plugin makes it easy with just EE template tags.
- "Restricted Area":http://utilitees.silenz.org/index.php/docs/item/restricted-area-documentation/ A module that allows you to wall off parts of your site to certain member groups.
Tech Talk: Hosting!
- "EE Server Wizard":http://expressionengine.com/docs/requirements.html. Checks if your server meets ExpressionEngine's minimum requirements. Download and use this before installing EE on a new hosting account.
- Virtual servers: "Slicehost":https://manage.slicehost.com/customers/new?referrer=407677ccb59f6391b629d0570a181ba6, "Linode":http://linode.com
- Dedicated servers: "The Planet":http://theplanet.com, "Rackspace":http://rackspace.com
- Shared hosting: "EngineHosting":http://www.enginehosting.com/
Hosted by Lea Alcantara & Ryan Irelan.
October 22, 2009 at 4:32PM
Episode #97 Lieutenant Commander Boson reporting for duty. Get the ring tone.
Show Notes
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RPM 2 Now supports Java and Ruby 1.9.
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Nginx HTTP push module – Turn nginx into a long-polling message queuing
HTTP push server.
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Ryan Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.
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Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.
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Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.
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Sunspot exposes all of Solr's most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no boolean queries and no string programming.
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Inploy is another way of doing deployments with different opinions than Capistrano.
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Aaron Patterson posts on the Tender Lovemaking blog about using Texticle to do full text searching using Postgres
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Gabriel Horner put up a tutorial on using Boson to create commands for watching GitHub repos on your shell.
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DevIL is a fast and lightweight image library that supports the loading and saving of images in almost any graphics format. It also provides some basic image manipulation functionality.
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Avdi posts on the Devver blog part 3 of starting sub-processes in Ruby.
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This is timesaver for middle/large Rails application which used PostgreSQL as database. Create/drop Views, Functions, Triggers, Foreign keys in your migrations using ruby syntax.
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Using the new handsoap gem, Jeff wraps all the nastiness of the VE and Mappoint web SDK SOAP into two very easy to use gems.
http://github.com/jmhodges/mappoint
http://github.com/jmhodges/virtualearth
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October 21, 2009 at 12:00PM • 1 hour 8 minutes
Puromac 154: Nuevas Macs, mouse y otros
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October 19, 2009 at 12:30AM • 37 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 19, 2005.
Amy Hoy talks about learning Rails, website usability and her upcoming book.
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October 18, 2009 at 6:00AM • 32 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 18, 2006.
The founders of BillMonk talk about building a community site with Rails, email as an API, and dynamically generated graphics.
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October 17, 2009 at 3:15PM • 16 minutes
This episode was originally published on October 17, 2005.
Obie and Matt reflect on the whirlwind of long beards, huge slides, and curly brackets known as RubyConf.
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October 16, 2009 at 3:39PM
Episode #096. Dan Benjamin (Playgrounder, Hivelogic) is back this week. We each had some background noise and an awkward moment. But it's funny.
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Show Notes
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Following the move to Rackspace, Github has decided to stop building gems and instead recommends people move to Jeweler or Gemcutter. Old gems will be served for a year.
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Nick Quaranto walks through how Gem Bundler is going to work on the Litany Against Fear blog. Gem Bundler is going to be the default gem dependency resolver in Rails 3.
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David Palm has posted a tutorial for working with daemon-kit by Kenneth Kalmer. He walks through created a simple daemon with three worker processes and explains what daemon kit is doing each step of the way.
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The High Scalability blog has an article up covering Ravelry, a Rails site serving 10 million requests per day from Rails.
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Ilya Grigorik posts a walk through of using AMQP for messaging and its benefits.
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The CodeRack competition is a competition to develop the most useful and top quality Rack middlewares.
http://coderack.org/
http://www.rubyinside.com/21-rack-middlewares-2649.html
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Fred Wilson (AVC) posts about a new hosted Mongo DB service.
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Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as “what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!” A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.
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Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.
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Justin Leitgeib walks through the architecture for his iPhone app SubwayDelay and outlines how he uses Sinatra and Tokyo Cabinet.
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Travis Dunn takes a look at one way of doing Web Hooks in your Rails app.
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Nathan Bibler's post about what's new in edge rails.
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