Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007 on Pownce

Published on 07 September 2007 by James in Conferences, Ruby

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If you want to follow my notes from the Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007, you can subscribe to my Pownce page. For those at the conference, I’m seated against the wall stage left, near the middle set of double doors. Feel free to stop and chat!
[tags]LSRC2007, Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007[/tags]

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Attending the Lone Star Ruby Conference 2007

Published on 05 September 2007 by James in Conferences, Ruby

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I’ll be at the Lone Star Ruby Conference on Fri Sept 7th and Sat Sept 8th, so if you will be there, drop me a comment or note and let me know so that we can meet up.
[tags]Lone Star Ruby Conference, LSRC[/tags]

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Startups on Rails

Published on 04 September 2007 by James in Entrepreneurship, Startup Development

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I met my good friend Ryan Heneise over lunch Monday, during which we were discussing what sort of FUD we get from startups regarding Ruby on Rails. Rather than go through the volumes of past debates about why Rails is better or worse than XYZ, I’ve decided simply to document why I recommend Ruby and [...]

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As an architect and developer, you may think that all of my time helping startups get from idea to revenue is spent writing and managing the code, but I find that it first should be spent keeping them focused.
Common things that cause startups to get off track

Realizing that the money they are spending must [...]

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I have been learning about audio level compression (sometimes called DRC) to understand why some music has little dynamic range (highs and lows seem soft or muffled). Keep in mind that I’m not talking about mp3 data compression, but rather the audio range of the music. It is amazing, once you start paying close attention, [...]

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New contender for the earliest .com

Published on 29 August 2007 by James in Fun

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Serving you since 1977:

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This week, I’m dreaming of a nice application mailer that integrates with Ruby on Rails. Specifically, I want something like Campaign Monitor, but without the metered costs so that I can be a little more free to send emails to my users. Most of the applications I have built recently require that I send emails [...]

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I use Trac to manage my tasks, tickets, and wiki for my various projects. Here are my top 3 dream enhancements that I would use today:

Campfire Notifications – instead of using email notifications for ticket changes, allow me to provide Campfire credentials and post notifications there rather than over email. Combined with Marshmallow, Campfire totally [...]

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I use GMail for my personal email account, as well as for managing several domains, including my latest application Church Director. There are times when I’d like to see a few things different for GMail. Here is my short list:

Mac attachment handling – I get forwarded emails from users of OS X’s mail program. Often, [...]

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Things have been quite busy on my Rails project this week, so I only have 2 projects for you:

A better Windows XP version of iTunes – I use iTunes mostly as a podcatcher and iPod synchronization tool. I’ve bookmarked a couple of substitutes (with no time to evaluate them yet), but I’d love to find [...]

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