(May 31)
First there was Ship It! to help you get software out the door.
Then came Release It!, an incredible book on the enterprise space.
Now, finally, you can also get Manage It!.
If this keeps up, we're going to need a new combo pack from the guys at Pragmatic Publishing just so you can buy all three at once! :)
Category: Misc
(May 24)
Jason Rudolph read my last entry and wasted no time sending a few Java podcasts my way.
Hey Jared,
You asked about some good Java podcasts.
("Someone send me a Java equivalent or two so I can post it too!")
The Java Posse just plain rocks. I highly recommend it.
Software Engineering Radio has some good episodes too, but it can be hit or miss. It tends to be mostly Java-centric, but they occasionally branch out. I recently enjoyed Episode #52: Obie Fernandez on DSL Development in Ruby.
Thanks for posting about the Rails podcast. I'm downloading some episodes right now!
Cheers,
Jason
Any more coming?
Jared
Category: Misc
(May 23)
Technorati Profile
Category: Misc
(May 22)
While reviewing my travel schedule for the No Fluff symposiums I noticed I was double booked for the weekend of August 3.
Then I realized that the individual talks didn't overlap. I'm giving six talks in Wisconsin on Friday and Saturday at the Northern Wisconsin Software Symposium, and then four more talks on Sunday at the Central Iowa Software Symposium.
When I asked Jay Zimmerman about it, I got this reply:
Yes, you will experience a 1st. Friday/Saturday in Green Bay with a quick flight to Des Moines Saturday night speaking on Sunday and back to RTP Sunday night. What a deal! :-)
So from OSCON in Portland the week of July 23 to the Desert Southwest Software Symposium in Phoenix on July 27 to Ship It! LIVE on July 30 in Reston to the Northern Wisconsin and Central Iowa NFJS's the weekend of August 3.
Sweet!
Category: Misc
(May 20)
Erlang is a very cool functional language. It has a funny introductory video that keeps coming up at RailsConf. Mike Clark blogged on it last year but (apparently) a ton of people haven't seen it yet.
Here's the direct link to the video.
Also, there's a Pragmatic Programmer book on the subject of Erlang called Programming Erlang. It's in beta at the moment, but worth checking out.
Why do people care about Erlang? Because it's a functional language, when you code an algorithm it can scale across cores or machines without you having to write threaded code. In the coming world, with it's tons of multi-core machines, this is going to be a very important language trait.
You can read more about Erlang and get a quick intro on Dave Thomas' blog. Start with his A First Erlang Program post.
Update: I just noticed the Erlang Programming Contest. The physical prize is only a book, but you just can't put a price tag on Eternal Fame and Glory!! ;)
Category: Misc
(May 20)
Just read it.
Chad's Blog
Category: Misc
(May 19)
This site is brand new and there are a still a few glitches here and there. The RSS feed was still directing you to port 3000 instead of port 80. I've fixed that now.
Anyone who visited the Ship It! LIVE page probably found a complete mess of a page. During my testing (which I did on two operating systems with three different browsers!), everything looked great. After I deployed it, it looked great.
But I had done a lot of my HTML work in NVU and the paths to my graphics, JavaScript, and CSS all got mangled. But ~all~ my browsers cached those bits during testing, so it all looked great to me.
So just a word to the wise... clear your cache before deploying a new page or your tests will look great, but it might not translate for your end users. :)
Category: Misc
(May 11)
I decided to switch over my jaredrichardson.net domain to a more official corporate entity late last year, but between client commitments, starting an Agile user group, touring on the No Fluff tour, and just life, it's taken me a while to to get this site rolling. But moving forward, AgileArtisans.com is my new web home. The content on JaredRichardson.net isn't going anywhere... it's got some great search engine placement in several categories, but I'm not planning on much regular activity over there.
This site is a Rails application, and I'm opening sourcing it very soon. I've already got a project on Ruby Forge named MOP CMS but the source isn't there quite yet. It's got some blogging functionality and some content management bits as well. Radiant couldn't quite do what I wanted, neither could Mephisto, so I followed in the grand Rails tradition of writing my own. :)
Out of the box MOP will have a basic blog and several tabs of content, but it'll have a different theme than my web site. Both look really good I think.
The graphic design work on this site was done by Russhe Riemer at Clementine Design. She did a great job. Thanks Russhe! ;)
The open source version will use a template from Open Web Design. I basically copied what Zed did with the Mongrel site. The template I chose was called, appropriately enough, Internet Sharing. It seems to fit somehow. :)
Category: Misc
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