Surge Conference 2010
Surge Conference was held in Baltimore, MD in September 2010, put on by OmniTI. Some attendees compared it to the Velocity conference which also covers web performance, scalability, and operations.
Process Monitoring with Bluepill
On our current project my colleague chose Bluepill for process monitoring. Bluepill has been working well so I wanted to recommend it and share some notes.
Email Service Providers for Rails
Sending email (transactional and marketing) is part of most every web application. At work our project is nearing its first public release and we are talking about emails the application may be sending. The emails we know the application will...
Node Knockout
This past weekend I participated in Node Knockout with three teammates: Paul Armstrong, Zach Johnson, and Nate Kadlac. Nate and I have worked together on Train Brain, I met Paul through work at a previous employer, and Zach through Paul,...
Tools For Software Projects
In the last couple of years I have worked as an employee and as a freelancer doing software development with Ruby on Rails and Cocoa for the iPhone. The projects have been new projects started from scratch with small budgets....
Node Frameworks: Geddy and Express
In preparation for the Node Knockout competition, I decided to look at two frameworks Geddy and Express.
Moving A Rails App to Heroku
This website runs on an open source blogging application I developed called Rehash. The application has always been deployed on a virtual private server but I wanted to try moving it to Heroku.
Bmore on Rails
Tonight I attended my first meeting of the monthly Bmore on Rails User Group. We recently relocated from Minneapolis to Baltimore. In addition to the monthly technical talk, there are social events nights, and hack nights.
RailsConf 2010
I attended RailsConf in Baltimore, MD this year. It was especially exciting as we had just relocated to Baltimore 2 days earlier after a long drive from Minneapolis. Apart from the great sessions, I was able to meet some great...
RubyConf 2009
Attending RubyConf was a lot of fun because I was able to combine a personal vacation ahead of the trip, then meet my coworker at the start of the conference.