Grandiose Ideas

Yep. I’ll be there! Loved it last year and looking forward to it this year as well. Hosted by EdgeCase, it’s a conference that presents Ruby and Ruby on Rails as a solution for the enterprise. Held in Columbus, OH, it’s relatively close to home for me, which makes [...]

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I have always considered myself a geek. I’m into the programming, have really enjoyed learning Ruby on Rails, love doing anything on my Mac, get silly over little changes in the iPhone OS, and even though I haven’t used it as much as I want to, I get excited when there is a new [...]

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Below is a short presentation I gave to my team about Nanite and the benefits of using it for background processing. Unfortunately the slide show notes are not available but at least you can get an idea of what I talked about and where I got my information.
The application that I work on, written [...]

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Ok, so I’m not really “required” by anyone to read technical books but I did resolve this year to try to read at least one per month.  My boss is helping me out a bit by suggesting books for me to read and so far I’m happy with what he’s selected.  First up: Pragmatic Version Control [...]

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Through the years I have come to realize that the life of a programmer is far from a glamourous one.  Even though I am thoroughly excited about my chosen profession and can blab for hours to family and friends about how much I really do love Rails or exactly what it is that I do [...]

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