Zilia Iskoujina is a PhD student from the UK who’s doing research on Knowledge management and innovation in virtual organisations. As part of that, a questionaire for people working in...
A million yen ($8,300) is the first price for a new application competition called Award on Rails that starts tomorrow. The competition is sponsored by DRECOM and will run from...
I am such a chicken. I very much wanted the next release of Capistrano to be the official “Capistrano 2.0” release. But as I watched the changelog grow, I started...
The Berlin Ruby User Group is throwing a pre-RailsConf party under the banner of Bratwurst on Rails. The Ruby User Group Berlin is one of the biggest in Germany and...
Alright, we’re nearing the finish line! Capistrano 2.0 Preview Release #3 is now available. Capistrano is a utility for automating the execution of tasks on one or more remote machines....
The hackfest is back! In sleek new form, the ’fest runs monthly, starting now. Without further ado: it’s on. Two weeks to go. Sprint! Thanks to Working With Rails for...
Registration for RailsConf Europe 2007 has opened up. It’s all going down in Berlin, Germany from September 17th through 19th. There’s a ton of great speakers lined up, so we’ll...
RailsConf gave birth to a number of new outlets for sub-communities within the Rails family: </p><p> #rails-contrib is a new IRC channel on freenode for contributors to Rails. The Rails...
It’s been said that the two last hard problems in programming are naming things and expiring caches. The first is going to be hard to sidestep entirely, but what if...