Planning for DevIgnition 2011 is in progress. Look for a probable December 9th landing date.
RubyNation 2012 on the Horizon
Planning activities began today for RubyNation 2012, which will be the 5th year anniversary for the conference. We start planning more than 8 months before the conference, commencing with a planning meeting and kick-off dinner for the organizers.
Up to 16K Page Views
It looks like KeenerTech.com has hit a new mark in monthly page views — more than 16 thousand page views for the month of June, 2011. Many, many thanks to all the visitors!
Confident Code
Avdi Grimm’s Rubynation 2011 talk on “Confident Code” is now available online. Check it out online at Blip.tv!
Boom Goes the Dynamite!
I was educated today by a junior developer: “Boom! Goes the dynamite.” can be used in place of “I made my Rails controller smaller.” So now you know, too.
Interview for the EngineYard Podcast
EngineYard will be interviewing me next week for their Cloud Out Loud podcast. They’re specifically interested in my experiences with Ruby on Rails in the government arena. In the DC area, the presence of Rails within government agencies has been growing dramatically.
Deploying KeenerTech From Git
I just published my first KeenerTech.com update from my shiny, new Git repository. But I still have all of my old history from my original Subversion repository. How cool is that?
(OK, maybe you really have to be a techie to appreciate this.)
Exchanges Connect Case Study
I architected on the Exchanges Connect Online Video Contest for the Department of State. The Case Study for this project is now available on Amazon Web Services.
Rails 3.1 Released
In case you haven’t heard the news, Rails 3.1 was released today. Lots of incremental improvements, including built-in SASS support, JQuery as the default JavaScript library, the “asset pipeline,” etc.
Git Giggle
Many thanks to Jonathan Quigg for pointing me towards Git Giggle, a UI tool that allows you to visually explore how a file in your Git repository has changed over time. Forget “git blame,” this tool is much more informative.