OSC wins 3rd Place at RuportDay
Okay, so its not the SuperBowl, but I won 3rd place during the 2006 Ruport Day! Ruport Day was an attempt to pull together a bunch of folks and…
Mandatory Upgrade of Rails 1.1.5!
Saw a post on Riding Rails about an extremely dangerous security hole in Rails. Read the full warning from DHH here. For me to update the software for this…
Eric Pugh To Present At VPTC 2007 Trends Seminar
Eric Pugh will be a guest panelist at the September 2006 VPTC meeting. He will be covering trends in technology that we can expect to see in 2007. More…
Why Open Source Works
Last night I experienced again why open source works. I was beating my head getting sorting to work in Ruport (Ruby Reporting Package), and instead of opening a support…
Reflections on OSCON
It appears to me that, after having talked to countless people at OSCON, there is still a significant disconnect between IT and the rest of the business. I say…
Scrum War Stories Recap
As I promised at the close of our BoF: Scrum War Stories, I would write up a couple of the notes I made during our discussions. They arent in…
Battle of the Scaffolds Aug 9th
Join Eric Pugh of OpenSource Connections August 9th at RubyJam as he pits two competing scaffolds designed for quickly ripping out a CRUD interface: AjaxScaffold and Streamlined. Learn the…
Decompressing from OSCON
Im sitting at TopPot in Seattle slowly digesting all the things that we did and learned at OSCON! Ive got a stack of contacts to follow up with, and…
OSCON 1st day exhibit thoughts
The biggest thing that surprised me was the preponderance of Perl developers at the convention. For a “dying language,” Perl seems to be pretty alive and well. I also…
We made it to OSCON!
After 8 hours of travel, we arrived into PDX last night at 10:50 PM. Headed down to the luggage claim and saw our pop up booth packed in a…
Running with scissors: overriding latest_revision SVN check in Capistrano
Ruby as a language sometimes feels like you are running with scissors. Its great to get from A to B quickly with your scissors, but there is a chance…
Trying to explain what “Open Source” is?
Here are a couple articles related to both open source software, as well as the culture surrounding the open source world. Open Source in the Public Interest An Overview…