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alberto
2009-04-18 01:00
The guys from Phusion have developed a passenger module for nginx. The development of was sponsored by EngineYard.
This is great news!
Read more about the release here
alberto
2009-03-13 01:00
alberto
2009-03-12 01:00
Last Friday i attended the Future of Web Applications conference which was held at the Liberty Hall Centre in Dublin, Ireland.
It had been 4 years since i had left Ireland after living there for 1 year working at MLE. I had a great time walking around the city recalling nice memories and catching up with some old friends.
Here comes a selection of what i liked most. The other talks were also quite good but i’m just...
alberto
2009-03-08 13:00
Last November David and me attended "Conferencia Rails" in Madrid. Overall it was a nice conference. Some highlights:
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The keynote by Xavier Noria....
alberto
2009-03-08 01:00
It has been ages since our last post.
In the meantime we have moved the blog from wordpress to mephisto. Although the migration was initially successful at some point the blog stopped working and passenger was displaying an error:
no such file to load -- RedCloth-3.0.4/lib/redcloth (MissingSourceFile)
I think the error was triggered when we installed a new version of rails on the server. The solution was to freeze rails and to change the...
alberto
2008-10-04 01:00
1. Each controller action only calls one model method other than an initial find or new. (Make custom .new or .update methods in the model with all necessary). …
2. Only one or two instance variables are shared between each controller and view. …
3. All model and variable names are both immediately obvious (to a new developer) and as short as possible without using abbreviations. …
4. All custom “finds” accessed from more than one place in the code use named_scope...
alberto
2008-09-06 01:00
I came back yesterday from Berlin where i attended RailsConf Europe 2008. Unfortunately i can not clone my self so i was not able to attend all the talks but here are some of my impressions and small summaries.
Neal Ford and Patrick Farley from Thoughtworks held a great tutorial on meta-programming in Ruby, explaining a lot of different techniques.
The guys from Intridea gave a very good talk on unobtrusive Javascript using Low Pro. They did a few goo examples during their talk...
alberto
2008-07-12 01:00
07/12/2008 The yearly KDE and GNOME 2009 conferences will be held in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, probably in July. Read more
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