By Sarah | December 30, 2009
So, I needed to change markdown to textile and google didn’t yield any handy scripts, so I sharpened my vim fu with Rubular, my favorite regular expression tester and came up with a few substitutions that took care of everything but lists and code blocks.
In vi, type ESC to go into command mode, then :%s/one/two/g [...]
By Sarah | December 28, 2009
I’ve gotten a number of requests for follow-on training in San Francisco for Rails and the Ruby language, so here are some classes coming up in January.
Ruby on Rails class
Another Ruby on Rails training at Marakana is coming up January 19-22 — the deadline for early bird discount is Dec 29. I was pleased to [...]
By Sarah | December 27, 2009
Cisco CTO, Padmasree Warrior, gave a thoughtful keynote speech for the Women of Vision event. I watched part 1 in May. Reminded by Anita Borg Institute’s Year in Review, I enjoyed watching part 2 and part 3.
She titled her talk: “fear stays silent while passion speaks,” which struck me as an important way [...]
By Sarah | December 26, 2009
It was inspiring to meet Matz, the creator of the Ruby language, and other Japanese Rubyists at last month’s RubyConf. Matz kindly recorded various phrases about Ruby in Japanese. Since then I’ve been working on learning katakana as an easy intro (perhaps) to the Japanese language.
For those who are unfamiliar with Japanese, katakana [...]
By Sarah | December 20, 2009
There’s a nice Railscast introduction to rake for Rails, which goes into a number of other important details that aren’t covered in this post. Below is a little tutorial of creating a Rails rake task and getting it to run remotely on heroku.
Introduction to Rake
In lib/tasks, create a file called greet.rake
task :greet do
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By Sarah | December 13, 2009
I attended the EngineYard Road Show a couple of weeks ago. I had low expectations for a mid-week corporate-sponsored event, but I found it to be unexpectedly good. I took a few notes on some of the presentations, which I’ve collected below:
Why Performance Matters
Tom Mornini of EngineYard told us about a Google search [...]
By Sarah | December 10, 2009
I really enjoyed the Bay Area Ignite talks last night both giving mine and hearing the others. Preparing for a 5 minute talk was brutal, but giving it was really kind of fun. The format is 20 slides auto-rotated at 15 seconds per slide accompanied by a 5 minute talk.
Here are my slides:
Sarah [...]