…research was probably too little given the depth of subject matter), and a lot of it is finding images on Flickr. :-)
Maybe 20 hours is a lot, but every minute you put into preparation pays off.
Tailor your content
It's ok to give the same talk at multiple conferences, but make sure you alter the content so it's relevant to your audience.
I gave my cucumber-nagios talk tens of times over an 18 month period, but the talk was different every time.
If I was at a developer …
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Finding Photos on Flickr
A Sinatra app to access GEO Info via GeoCoder
Simple CRUD app with ActiveRecord, SQLite3 and YAML
Using Rack Middleware
You can read through the RubyLearning FAQ .
Some Fun Apps
Here are some of the fun apps created by the previous batch participants and deployed to Heroku:
Stock Exchange Quote Service .
Using Sinatra to access the …
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…magazine, there was the British satire comic publication Punch , a magazine that Flickr user Kip W ( who found the comic above ) says "pretty much did everything first, unless archaeologists should find another humor magazine that did everything before PUNCH, which seems pretty unlikely." Their prediction about what people would do with wireless communications, pictured above, was eerily prescient.
The comic above is from page 164 of A Century of …
…done all this you can hardly claim you have created the system. And yet we tend to do it..
Therefore if you are a Ruby developer and you have produced more than others, it is not because you are taller or smarter. It is probaby because you are standing on the shoulders of many others.
(The sourcecode photo is from Flickr user nyuhuhuu )
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…API will not know what to do with the things it get. It won't know the difference between Flickr photos and Basecamp projects. The assistance of being able to follow a link to go from photo to comments and project to messages is nice, but as explained in the beginning, not exactly earth shattering.
Every single application is still going to need a custom API client. That client needs to know what attributes are available on each resource and what to do with them.
In summary, here's …
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§ How Flickr is using Node and Redis to deliver real-time notifications .
§ 2013 is knocking on our door. Time to update our CSS3 stylseheets .
§ You Don't Know Jack is back! iPhone and iPad.
§ Epic pull request is epic. Hacker tries to sneak in code via pull request, hilarity ensues .
§ In N. Korea they keep things simple. Only one Web standard to worry about :
Whenever leader Kim Jong-un is mentioned, …
You can find the rest of the photos in high res on our Flickr page.
BubbleConf 2013?
As for a possible BubbleConf 2013, that's basically up for you guys to decide! If you think we should do another one, be sure to let us know via the comment section below, Twitter or email ! Be sure to let us know what you'd like to see happen in that year's edition as well. Seeing as this was our very first conference ever, we'd love to hear your thoughts …
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…'s The Page, People Magazine's Style Watch, corporate blogs for Flickr and KROQ, and many more. Automattic operates two thousand servers in twelve, globally distributed, data centers. WordPress.com customer data is instantly replicated between different locations to provide an extremely reliable and fast web experience for hundreds of millions of visitors.
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See more photos on our Flickr stream.
But through all the fun and hard work, we all walked away with a great sense of accomplishment. More than that, we were able to help a worthy cause and teach Family Giving Tree our unique design methods, which will help them create awesome work for years to come.
The caliber of service and the attention to detail is something that we could have never in a million years been able to buy as a nonprofit, and ZURB has truly presented us with …
The Apple TV ships with a Flickr screensaver which allows you to pull images off Flickr matching a search keyword. For instance, mine is set to "puppies," so my screen saver usually shows images of puppies.
However, Flickr search is not perfect. If a Flickr user has uploaded a picture of a happy anime St Bernard having sex with an underage human female, and tagged that picture "puppies," you may be left wondering what the fuck is the deal with the Japanese .
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