…running in Google App Engine to the Opscode Platform so that you can manage your configuration in a consistent way, across metal, IaaS, and PaaS resources, with Open Source tools.
Session Date : Thursday, July 29, 2010
Session Time : 11:00 pm, Pacific Daylight Time ( San Francisco, GMT -07:00)
SFAC Gallery is calling all San Franciscan insomniac photographers.
(tags: photography sanfrancisco callforsubmission )
Mother Vine: Saving North Carolina's Mother Vine
"A North Carolina brush crew's weedkiller almost ends the 400-year run of the nation's oldest cultivated grapevine."
(tags: gardening )
Post from: Derek Powazek
Get Satisfaction — San Francisco, California
ExactTarget + CoTweet — San Francisco, California
On-Site.com — Lafayette, Colorado
SingleFeed — San Francisco, California
Context Optional, Inc — San Francisco, California
Sr. Ruby on Rails Programmer (or perl/python/ django/catalyst)
Insight — Birmingham, Alabama…
…make your Ruby on Rails applications rock solid" at Engine Yard's San Francisco office on the 24th and 31st of July. Visit www.dbisyourfriend.com for course and registration details.
Bob opens a database transaction and selects everything from the books table. Tom comes along and adds a new book, then Bob, in his same transaction, repeats his same query for all the books. Does Bob see the new book that Tom added?
The answer is that you get to choose! It's …
Hello all,The Engine Yard blog is back in action after taking a break following JRuby 1.5, Rubinius 1.0, the introduction of xCloud, RailsConf and (very soon) Rails 3.Our latest post is from a special guest and Engine Yard partner Xavier Shay. He'll be running a pair of training sessions on ‘using your database to make your Ruby on Rails applications rock solid' at Engine Yard's San Francisco office on the 24th and 31st of July. Visit www.dbisyourfriend.com for course and registration details.
…Sep. 17-18: Golden Gate Ruby Conference - San Francisco, CA
Sep. 17-19: Ruby DCamp - Northern Virginia
Sep. 25: SunnyConf - Phoenix, AZ
September: RailsCamp New England - Vermont (dates and location TBD)
Oct. 1-3: JRubyConf - Columbus, OH (replaces erubycon this year)
Oct. 6-9: Mountain.rb - Boulder, CO
Credit goes to the organizers of this past weekend's excellent Ruby Midwest for compiling …
All people are not equal on the Internet: twenty-something technologists in San Fransisco create hundreds of times more links per year than retired teachers in Florida. All else being equal, it makes sense to create more of your linkbait targeted at heavy linking groups. They've been labeled the Linkerati by SEOMoz, and I recommend the entire series of posts on them highly.
Software developers have some unique, effective ways to create linkbait. For example:
Open Source…
…US. We have run successful camps in Austin, Boston and San Francisco. The Austin and San Francisco camps drew over 100 people each. In hindsight, we should have called it Devopscamp. Damon Edwards has been instrumental in starting a west coat initiative including the most recent DevopsDays USA run at LinkedIn . Since then, other splinter groups have started in Atlanta, NY, Boston and LA. In fact, I just attended the first SOCAL Devops meetup last …
…Scottish Ruby Conference I still feel like travelling. For quite a long time I've wanted to go to San Francisco and check out the Ruby scene there and I also have a couple of people who I'd love to catch up with in other parts of the country. So I'm going to be doing an "American tour".
I'm thinking of flying in on the 15th September, staying for 2 weeks and leaving on the 29th or 30th. So far I've planned as far as attending GoGaRuCo (probably not speaking, …
This San Francisco Business Times story on AnswerLab shows Founders Dan Clifford and Amy Buckner.
How successful is the business?
We've been very happy with the success of the business. AnswerLab is approaching its 6th anniversary. Each year, we've been profitable and have grown our year-over-year revenues. Our top-line revenues have already been made public since we were on the most recent Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing privately held companies. In …