Nobody Listens Anyway

I spent two years in Japan. While there I met all kinds of interesting people. I remember one individual in particular because he was a chess grand master. He was also very good at Shogi. In fact he had written Shogi the video game for Nintendo.
I like chess and [...]

We missed the first talk this morning (sorry Devlin we suck). I slept till 9:30, but mainly because we were up till 4am. Dave South gave me some great info on using TestSpec. RSpec seems to be the hot thing right now, but I like how TestSpec is lightweight:
Install the gem:
sudo gem [...]

Right Scale has a great gem:
gem install right_aws
RightScale RightAws::Sqs
RightScale RightAws::Ec2
They will automatically retry errors for you.
gem install kato
Kato - EC2 Pool Manager

require ‘rubygems’
requrie ‘right_aws’
RightAws::RightAWSParser.xml_lib = ‘libxml’
SQS = RightAws::Sqs.new(access_id, access_key) #get an SQS object
queue = SQS.queue(”name_of_queue”) #create a or get a reference to an existing queue
queue.psuh “put message in the queue” #8k max
queue.size # get an [...]

I am in the Ruby-fs API presentation now. Funding for the library came from USFamilyTree.com.
It is REST based.
Data model is:
Person
Person has many Assertions
Assertion has one Contributor, Citation(not yet implemented), Note
Each person has a lot of data associated with them so you don’t want to be parsing xml data on the [...]

Jamis Buck blogged about the code review of Ozmozr he and Marcel did at the Mountain West Ruby Conference. The presentation was our favorite because of the insight it gave into our code and I think we came away as better programmers for it. Here is the link to the presentation on Conference [...]