omakase) stack, a Thunderbolt stack, a Hashrocket stack, and many
other stacks, and in most cases the "stack" is not a fixed machine but
a fluctuating ecosystem. (I'm not sure if that's the right metaphor
either, but it'll work until I get an idea for a better one.) You
experiment with different gems on different projects, and some of them
you use more often than others.
There's an approved set of choices which represents Official Rails™,
- Giles Bowkett: A Simple Protocol For "You Are Not Your Code"
- Heroku: Rails Security Vulnerability
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial News: Rails security fixes, version upgrade
- New Relic: Making the Move to Rails 3
- Ruby Inside: The Past 2 Weeks in Ruby: 1.9.3-p286, JRuby 1.7RC2, Sidekiq Pro and Much More
- The Pug Automatic: The Rails flash isn't just for messages
…what nothing else in the world can do. We owe a lot to the exceptional genius of our Hashrocket team and the wizardry of the lead developer they provided to us. During my career I've led many projects and never seen a product reach this level of complexity without falling apart due to compromises and shortcuts made along the way. I attribute our success in no small part to the principles and practices that Rails embodies. It is the motivation that I had for choosing Ruby on Rails…
- Ruby Inside: The Mega April 2012 Ruby and Rails News Roundup
- Giles Bowkett: Rails Went Off The Rails: Why I'm Rebuilding Archaeopteryx In CoffeeScript
- Smarticus: About that first test...
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: This week in open source
- Justin Leitgeb: Railblazer: how Stack Builders runs Rails apps under Continuous Integration
- Patrick Lenz: Proper Language Detection on the Web
…talk was great also. I've worked with Travis in the past when I was at Hashrocket and he was at nGen Works. Not only is he a super smart lad but a very talented designer. I had high expectations walking in and wasn't disappointed.
I won't touch on the talks that I didn't like as I don't want to be too negative. The one thing I will say is; don't listen to people telling you to be a ‘celebrity.' Forget trying to be popular. Just do the best job …
- : Tools of the Trade 2009
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: After 35 Robot Years, The New thoughtbot.com Is Here!
- Merbist: MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 and Textorize
- OmniNerd: What Image Editor Do You Use?
- Falling Leaves - Home: Photoshop Scratch Disk Error Tip
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: CSS Frameworks
…13 years of working on the web I have only spent 8 months in employment at Hashrocket. However, when I was approached about the oppurtunity of working with Mark Boulton Design I had an initial gut reaction that it was something that I would love to do.
I have learnt a lot from reading Mark's blog over the years and already had been following some of the team on Twitter. Their knowledge and passion very much spurred me into thinking that it would be an awesome place to work. Exciting …
- Effectif Development: Nesta gets a new design
- jystewart.net | notes, tips and commentary by James Stewart: Friday Links - January 8th 2010
…you leave Brazil for Chile? I moved to Chile to work at Hashrocket in 2009. When I was living in São Paulo I saw Obie's tweet about Hashrocket opening a new office in Chile and looking for brilliant developers to work there. I thought, "I am not a brilliant Ruby developer yet, but I could become one if I work with brilliant people." I sent my resume, interviewed at Hashrocket, and here I am. You are not a native English speaker. Do you have advice for people …
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: Locos x Rails Wrap up
- Signal vs. Noise: Parlez-vous français? Basecamp goes international
- Lessons Learned: Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)
- Merbist: RailsSummit - an amazing adventure
- Kalzumeus Software: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- RubyLearning Blog: Rails Summit Latin America 2009
…works with any superstar programmer whether they are coming from a shop like Hashrocket or not. Shop refuses to work with you? Hire one of their guys for a single-day side gig! In Europe and using Mongo? Throw a couple thousand at my friend Durran to pair with you for a day. You get the idea. Just make sure that the person you hire works full-time as a programmer every day. This scheme wouldn't work with someone like me; I have plenty of depth, but slow velocity since …
- Obie Fernandez: Seeking iOS Expert
- thechrisoshow: A peek at the inner workings of Hashrocket
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: Design Patterns Book Club
- Giles Bowkett: One Reason Pair Programming Is Not For The Elite
- The Curiosity Project: Training Your Technical Staff When You Don't Have a Budget
- Zach Inglis: Rails Rumble Has Started.
…writing good steps, you should read up on cuking it wrong and cuking it right . Also, Hashrocket has an interesting discussion online about how they use Cucumber. Jeff Kreeftmeijer wrote a great introduction on Steak . And finally, the RSpec book is really gives a good insight into how to use Cucumber the right way.
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Sweep unused code into the dustbin with rcov
- Opscode Blog: RailsConf 2009, Full of Awesome!
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ruby Performance Testing Tips and Tricks
- Litany Against Fear: RailsConf 2009 Webrat Rails Testing Evolved
- Be Genius: Selector-Free Cucumber Scenarios
- Ruby, Javascript, Erlang blog: Snakes, Gems & Coffee: GEdit Extensions Project
…up on cuking it wrong and cuking it right . Also, Hashrocket has an interesting discussion online about how they use Cucumber. Jeff Kreeftmeijer wrote a great introduction on Steak . And finally, the RSpec book is really gives a good insight into how to use Cucumber the right way.
Also, Dan North wrote a lengthy article on how to write stories , making a similar point.
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Sweep unused code into the dustbin with rcov
- Trevor Turk: Links for 10-21-10
- Dmitry Belitsky: Desi McAdam Interview
- Diego Carrion: Really easy continuous integration with Signal
- WriteLessCode Blog: Testing Ext JS/Rails components with Cucumber and WebDriver in Netzke
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Ruby Performance Testing Tips and Tricks
February 4-5, Hashrocket, Chicago, led by Desi McAdam - Attendees Meetup Page: http://vurl.me/YMH Volunteers Meetup Page: http://vurl.me/YMF
March 11-12, Enphase Energy, Petaluma, led by Brenda Strech & Ilen Zazueta-Hall ( meetup )
April 7-8, ModCloth, San Francisco, Megan Guering
April, White Pages, Seattle, Elise Worthy
May 6-7, SoMA Central, San Francisco, led by Andrea Ängquist and Raphael Lee
July 15-16, Miso, …
- Ruby Inside: 9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2011
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: JRuby 2010: Year In Review
- Phusion Corporate Blog: Phusion Passenger 3.0.1 released
- Trevor Turk: Links for 12-3-10
- the evolving ultrasaurus: how to get a Rails job
- The Life Of A Radar: Ubuntu, Ruby, RVM, Rails, and You
Hashrocket has actually taken this a step further and broadcast these live .
Videos
It's become commonplace for conferences to record their talks and make them available online for free. Additionally, a number of larger user groups do the same. There are a nearly endless number of videos on a wide variety of topics that are available online. Pick a video (maybe two if they're short), watch it as a group, and then discuss it afterwards.
Here are a few sources I like: …
- Blog on Applicake's ideas, Ruby on Rails and Internet start-ups: Future of Web Design - NYC, Nov 16/17th
- danieltenner.com: Dealing with impossible crises
- Luigi Montanez: Salesforce Tools of the Trade
- Plataformatec Blog: Show your objects baby!
- MySQL Performance Blog: 2010 Percona Training Schedule
- Derek Powazek: They Don't Complain and They Die Quietly