30 July 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 29 days ago.
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Five years ago I left the world of contracting and reentered the world of the full time employee, and I enjoyed every minute of it (well, almost). Now fast forward five years and I find myself once again at a crossroads. Do I continue on as an FTE or do I become a contractor, and play the field, so to speak? Looks like I'm going to go with the hired gun route for a little while, but that's not really the point of this post.

During the past week or so I've spoken with many great …

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 1 month ago.
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When I was 11 I made my very first recording. It was 1987 and the technology choices for recording were, how to put this, almost non-existant. So I did what any smart 11 year old would do, I improvised! Let me walk you through the history of my recording career. Don't worry, I'll make it brief.

The Boom Box.

I had a two cassette boom box, it was a beast of a machine. It was a ‘portable' machine, meaning that it took 8 D batteries and a burly man named Attila to carry it. …

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Mark Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.

The Art of the Library

Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.

TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby

Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.

Sunspot

Sunspot exposes all of Solr's most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no …

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By Jason of Rails Envy » Home 10 months ago.
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Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as "what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!" A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.

Cap-recipes

Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.

iPhone …

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 5 months ago.
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Quite often I get asked why don't I blog more? Why don't I tweet more? Why don't I _fill in the blank_ more. The answer is I'm a busy man. I'm the CTO for a pre-funding startup, www.shortbord.com , the father of two adorable little boys, the lead singer of a Boston-based band, www.myspace.com/colawarvets , and that's just the big stuff! I have to prioritize what I can spend my time on, and unfortunately some of my open source projects are the first to get the ax.

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 6 months ago.
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I've always been a big proponent of Ruby 1.9, I make no bones about it. My question is why wouldn't you be? It's faster, more powerful, easier to use, and makes things a lot clearer and cleaner than 1.8. So why then are pretty much all of us still running our applications on 1.8.x? Great question, and as far as I can tell there is really only 1 answer.

That answer? Because no one else is. It's stupid really, but it's the truth. We're all afraid to run our applications …

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 6 months ago.
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Moving @ shortbord into our new offices today! Pretty darn excited. I feel like we're growing up. #

Ended up staying home to watch the kids instead of helping to move @ shortbord into our new offices. #

Trying to watch ET with the boys. It's proving more difficult than you think. #

Stupid ass groundhog. What does he know! #

Today is a Willie Nelson day in the development wing of the new @ shortbord offices. #

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 6 months ago.
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Lately I feel my music has been quite heavily influenced by the musical stylings of Mr. Alan Thicke. #

I love working at @ shortbord #

Just finished reviewing @ hal_fulton proposal for the Ruby Way 3rd edition. Can't wait to read the actual book! #

Worst nights sleep in ages. Leo was up all night and Dylan wanted to sleep with us leaving me with 6" of bed! #

Excited about Apples big announcement today. iPhone OS

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 6 months ago.
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RT @ billjanovitz: How did Scott Brown become the change candidate? Nothing could be further from the truth. # masen http://bit.ly/7wKSs2 #

RT: Bill Janovitz She ran a bad campaign. But this guy would simply be a travesty. http://bit.ly/7LyOP9 #

Boston Globe: Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying - http://bit.ly/7LyOP9 #

This state is one of the best in the nation, & that's due to people …

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By Mark Bates of Meta Bates 6 months ago.
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If Hoth had a frozen moon than that moon would be warmer than my office right now. #

I absolutely love it when the cleaners come! #

Wow. I can't believe how much work I got done today. I love a good productive day. It lifts the spirits. #

Had a dream last night that I was at @ cheever house and played strip poker with Ellen Page and Bruce Springsteen. Don't worry, I won. #

I have to say I do really enjoy using named_scopes …

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