Sue’s memorial was quite good, with laughter and tears. The laughter outlasted the tears, because that’s the way that Sue herself was. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Giant Monsters

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Sax Rohmer #1

The Mountain Goats

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The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #862

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“ Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ”

Ernest Hemingway

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Tip Mammal vertebrae

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I Heard You Looking

Yo La Tengo

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Martha & Snoop

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“ There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. ”

Goethe

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Nothing Grinder

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code_swarm – Python

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Crimson and Clover

Tommy James & the Shondells

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Darcel

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“ … and all the while … he’s talking about parentheses, about how a sentence doesn’t really come to life until it encounters a parenthesis (something that changes the trajectory of the sentence (creating a meaning that she understands (as does he, the one who’s talking (without focusing) on and on) partly because what he’s talking about is how he’s talking) without altering its fundamental progress) which gives it a tension and a complexity that more resembles life, or if not life, music. ”

John Haskell, I am not Jackson Pollock

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Capistrano 2.4.0 is now available. Capistrano is the deployment tool of choice for many Rails programmers, but can be used for much more, allowing you to automate remote tasks using a simple task-oriented framework in Ruby.

Install it via RubyGems:

  gem install capistrano

You can read the entire release announcement on Jamis Buck’s weblog.

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I had www.ignitephoenix.com up for maybe almost a year now, with nothing more than a plea for someone to step up and basically make it happen. Well, Jeff Moriarty and Roger Williams have taken steps to make Ignite Phoenix a reality.

It looks like it will be happening in August, at the offices of Jobbing.com (they host the monthly Phoenix Social Media Club meeting).

The best place to get info on all the details is www.ignite-phoenix.org

Subscribe to the RSS feed, and follow announcements on Twitter via @ignitephoenix.

What’s needed now are talk proposals. The idea is to have two sets of short talks; short, as in under 10 minutes; short, as in pecha kucha short, as in no time to be bored or boring.

Suitable topics can be almost anything. No sales pitches. But see here for details.

In between the talk sets there will be a break for discussion and socializing.

Learn more about Ignite in general, or see details on Ignite Portland, Ignite Paris, Ignite Boston, and Ignite Seattle

Spread the word, and thinking about what you would talk about if you had five minutes and an audience.

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checking my twitter karma. Surprised at how many followers I have, considering I’m not tweeting as much right now. # @davehyndman dumb, dumb, dumb of Rogers. But did you really expect anything better? # @gruber that’s usually because we get shafted by lazy caterers who can’t think beyond pasty pasta primavera # @gruber the chef for my wedding [...]
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Toe Jam – The BPA ft David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal

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“ The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. ”

Peter F. Drucker

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Ugly New Buildings by Dan Witz

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Is there a way to enable/disable Time Machine from the command-line? # @mWare You can force it. I’m looking for enable/disable. http://www.loganrockmore.com/blog/?p=128 # wish I were in SF right now # Our office admin passed yesterday, quite suddenly. :( # RockScroll (via Scott Hanselman) is surprisingly useful. # @dmarsh I realized that some time ago, which is why I switched [...]
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At Tech Ed last week, I showed a prototype of integration between IronRuby and ASP.NET MVC. I was really happy about how straightforward this turned out to be; it’s a strong testament to the robustness of our hosting API that...
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Dealing with some sudden bad news. # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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I’d like to start out by thanking everyone who came up to talk to me at the conference. We had a Dynamic Languages booth at the conference, and it was great to talk to all of the folks who took...
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RailsConf Europe has opened the doors for registration. The conference is returning to Berlin, Germany from September 2nd through 4th. If you register before July 15th, you can save up to 150 euros.

Considering what a blow-out success we had at RailsConf in Portland just a few weeks ago, it’s hard not to be pretty darn excited about setting up in Berlin and extending that good atmosphere across the pond. Berlin was a great spot in September last year as well.

So I’m looking forward to meeting up with more from the European Rails communities. Hopefully the very large Danish delegation will make it down this year as well :).

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Jeremy McAnally has just announced the talks that we’ll be seeing at this year’s Ruby Hoedown, and it’s a really great-looking lineup: Giles Bowkett will be speaking about Archaeopteryx, a Ruby-based system for auto-generating, self-modifying music. I’ve heard nothing but rave reviews of this project, which Giles has previously spoken about at GoRuCo and the MountainWest [...]
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Crazy Train

Ozzy Osbourne

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TRAIN WON’T STOP

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Weird Fishes: Arpeggi by Flight404

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“ Never mistake a clear view for a short distance. ”

Paul Saffo

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I’d like to introduce two new contributors to the Rails blog.

First up is Chu Yeow. Chu has been putting together weekly Living on the Edge blog posts where he covers what’s been going on in Edge Rails. It seemed to me like it should be on the official blog, so expect to see his weekly updates showing up here shortly.

Secondly is Antonio Cangiano. Antonio started doing blog posts entitled This Week in Ruby a few months back which, as you might expect, cover all the significant events of the prior week. Antonio has agreed to move his weekly “Rails” stories over here, so we can all benefit from getting a summary of what’s going on in the neighborhood.

Then I should probably say a word about me, it’s not like I’m on the core team or work at 37 Signals so why am I here? I’m Gregg Pollack, one of the Rails Envy guys, and I’m here to help cover stories and help shape up the RubyOnRails.org website so the real core team can focus on coding.

So if you have any Rails stories that belong on here please email me (Gregg at RailsEnvy). Worst case scenario I’ll cover it on the next Rails Envy Podcast.

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If you’re eager to learn how to use all the new features in Rails 2.1, Carlos Brando just released a free book titled Ruby on Rails 2.1, What’s New?. You can download the PDF in its original Portuguese, or its very recent English translation. This 120 page book covers everything you need to know about Rails 2.1 with many step by step examples.

You might also know Carlos Brando from the Ruby on Rails Podcast Brazil he does with Fabio Akita. If you’re a Rails developer and you speak Portuguese, definitely check out their podcast.

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• Rails框架系列教程一
1. Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 1 of n
2. Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 2 of n
3. Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 3 of n
4. Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 4 of n
5. Beginners Tutorial: Routing in Rails 2.0 (with REST) – Part 5 of n

• Rails框架系列教程二
  
  • Building Relationships Between Rails Models
  • Rails RESTful Resources Tutorial

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