Rubyology

Hey code monkeys! Marc Chung from OpenRain.com gave a funtabulous presentation at this week's AZ on Rails user group meeting on deploying rails applications on Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) and also demonstrated chaining tasks together in the cloud to work on a common goal (like calculating pi) using MPI (Message Passing Interface Standard). This is a MUST hear discussion. Thanks to Derek Neighbors for putting together show notes and thanks to Marc for sharing his experience with all of us :) http://derekneighbors.com/2008/2/20/phoenix-rails-february

Welcome back! Today we cover upcoming conference updates. Ruby 1.9 update. Heroku introduction. Wuby vs. Thin -> Wuby Wins! Enterprise SOA discussion REST vs. SOAP -> REST Wins! Interview with Theo Beack, Deputy CTO BEA - Ruby involved in their virtualization container strategies - more to come. Great Amazon service and twitter links below: http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.amazonwebservices.com%2Fconnect%2Fentry.jspa%3FexternalID%3D1182%26ref%3Dfeatured http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdominiek.com%2Farticles%2F2008%2F2%2F15%2Fhow-to-build-a-twitter-agent My post on posting twitter tweets with 10 lines of Ruby code: http://blog.kineticweb.com/articles/2008/02/16/capistrano-twitter-task-take-2

Check out my presentation at the Phoenix Rails User Group meeting on S5 and P8. Both are interesting technologies for presentations.

If this isn't entertaining I don't know what is! David Koontz, President of Rising Tide Software (http://www.risingtidesoftware.com), gave a speech in front of 50 Java professionals at the Phoenix Java User Group (http://www.phxjug.org/) and convinced them all to switch to JRuby! I tell you, Sun should hire this guy. He knows his stuff (both java and ruby) - and he has charisma!

Thanks for tuning in and being patient while our site was offline. SteelPixel, our hosting provider, was expectantly acquired by Rails Playground. It took us a little while to transition our sites to the new host. BTW, RailsPlyground.com's support rocks!

I gave a presentation at this week's Arizona Rails User Group meeting in front of my peers on Wuby. Wuby is my new Ruby Framework which is basically a self contained Ruby Web Server with a persistently hashed data store. 3 milliseconds response time baby!

Preston Lee from OpenRain.com gave a presentation last night at the AZ Rails User Group meeting hosted at Integrum. His presentation covered imaging tools used in their Mugr.com facial recognition system that they are developing. Some of the tools included: attachment fu, kropper, and rmagic. Preston's slide can be found at http://www.prestonlee.com/archives/149 Check it out!

Josh Knowles concluded the Desert Code Camp series with a final hour on Advanced Rails covering AJAX and Active Resource. This presentation, in my opinion, was the best of the conference. Check it out!

Josh Knowles (Rails Expert Freelancer - joshknowles.com) gave a 2 part presentation on Ruby on Rails at the Desert Code Camp last week. The audience pulled in approx. 100 code monkeys. His slides from Code Camp can be found at http://joshknowles.com/2007/9/18/desert-code-camp

So all you code monkeys went out and bought iPhones right? I know a few smart code monkeys that found ways to get the bossman to purchase one for them. Either way, now you have one so whacha gonna do with it? This first half of this episode features Josh Knowles (Rails Freelancer - joshknowles.com) explaining how to develop web applications that look and feel like Apple's own apps. The second half features Ian Baird (Cocoa Programmer Supreme and Founder of Skorpiostech.com) talking about how to develop and port Cocoa apps to your iPhone. Hack the planet!

This is my second podcast from this weekend's Desert Code Camp in Tempe, Arizona. David Koontz, founder of RisingTideSoftware.com, gave an outstanding presentation on JRuby and even demo'd his GUI framework for Ruby called MonkeyBars. Check it out!

Desert Code Camp (Tempe, Arizona) - Josh Knowles (JoshKnowles.com) gave a speech on agile software development. Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of the project. Agile methods also emphasize working software as the primary measure of progress. Combined with the preference for face-to-face communication, agile methods produce very little written documentation relative to other methods. Josh is a freelancer and an opinionated Rails developer.

Hi fellow code monkeys :) Today's episode covers Amazons Simple Storage Services (S3) and other important updates.

Driving while podcasting - sounds illegal but it seems like the only way I'm going to get a new episode online. I've been busy working on a new project and shared my experience with deploying my latest Ruby on Rails application on Media Temple's grid infrastructure. Here's the blog posts that I mentioned in the cast with tips and tricks for deploying on mt with svn and capistrano. http://blog.vixiom.com/2007/02/18/mt-ror-a-z-the-complete-guide-to-getting-rails-running-on-media-temple/ http://www.capify.org/upgrade/gotchas http://blog.postpostmodern.com/2006/11/29/a-recipe-for-capistrano-rails-deployment-on-media-temples-grid-server/ http://myles.eftos.id.au/blog/2006/10/27/setting-up-a-rails-app-on-a-media-temple-grid-server/

I had the opportunity of attending the Arizona on Rails user group this week hosted by Integrum. This episode is a presentation on Active Scaffold by Aaron Martin and Justin Walsh of Mega.Net.

This episode features a presentation by Jade Meskill, founder of Integrum Technologies (http://integrumtech.com) at the AZ on Rails User Group meeting from 6/19/07. Jade gave us a good walk through on Why's Camping framework.

I attended the AZ on Rails User Group meeting last night hosted by Integrum (http://integrumtech.com/). This episode includes 1 of the 2 presentations delivered last night. This one is on Merb, a Ruby framework, and was presented by Josh Knowles of Integrum. His personal blog can be found at http://joshknowles.com/

Okay - your site is successful. 1 hit, 100 hits, 1000 hits... How do you scale Ruby on Rails to meet your customers' demands? It's easier than you might think!

This week's podcast covers those little letter images known as captchas on registration pages as well as re-using existing Rails code on new applications. Okay, we also cover some Ruby news and new gems.

BYOWS - Build Your Own Web Server! In addition to touching on Microsoft's new SilverScreen multimedia framework and Joyent's SlingShot Rails deployment application, we cover some interesting Ruby web server code found in an older discounted Ruby 1.6.6 book. It's still applicable today and supports threading!