30 July 2010

The Ruby Reflector

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San Francisco

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On Opscode Blog 3 days ago.
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…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)

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By Derek Powazek of Derek Powazek 4 days ago.
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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 )

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links for 2010-07-26

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By Peter Cooper of Ruby Inside 6 days ago.
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Get SatisfactionSan Francisco, California

Sr. Ruby Engineer- CoTweet

ExactTarget + CoTweet — San Francisco, California

Ruby On Rails Developer

On-Site.com — Lafayette, Colorado

Front End Developer

SingleFeed — San Francisco, California

Rails Developer

Context Optional, IncSan Francisco, California

Sr. Ruby on Rails Programmer (or perl/python/ django/catalyst)

Insight — Birmingham, Alabama

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…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 …

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By xaviershay of Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog 9 days ago.
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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.

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On Luigi Montanez 11 days ago.
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…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 …

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By Patrick of MicroISV on a Shoestring 12 days ago.
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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

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On Opscode Blog 14 days ago.
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…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 …

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By Radar of The Life Of A Radar 14 days ago.
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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, …

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By Matt of Signal vs. Noise 16 days ago.
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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 …

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