The Columbus Ruby Brigade met at Quick Solutions on 21 June, 2010. Mike Doel who works at VacationView gave a talk on Capybara (a giant rodent that occasionally eats its own poop) and Capybara ("Son of Webrat"). One virtue of Capybara is that it facilitates testing the JavaScript bits on your site which Webrat cannot [...]
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Columbus Ruby Brigade
Here is my linkdump from the May 2010 meeting of the Columbus Ruby Brigade: The erubycon conference will be held Oct 1-3, 2010. Ben Wagaman presented Core of the Core – Reflection. Greg Malcolm showed us ruby-debug (cheat sheet). Kevin Munc presented Method of the Month (methods actually) empty?, nil?, blank?, and present? Matt Forsythe [...]
COhPy Meeting – December 2009
Here is my link dump from last night’s meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group: The scheduled presenter, Brian Costlow, didn’t make it. Something about work being more important than a Python meeting. Priorities? To fill the void, Eric Floehr showed a weather-related web application he has been working on that is built with [...]
CbusPASS – November 2009
Last night I attended the CbusPASS (that’s the Columbus chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server, aka the Columbus SQL Server Users Group) meeting. I’m not using SQL Server much these days so the take home value isn’t immediate for me. I’m interested in databases in general, I have used SQL Server in the [...]
CONDG Meeting – August 2009
I enjoyed the presentation by Bill Sempf at this month’s Central Ohio .NET Developers Group even if it was a little disorganized. I think Mr. Sempf and I share a certain scatterbrain quality though his achievements point to an ability to focus deeply when needed. He’s like smarter more extroverted version of the Bill writing [...]
CONDG Meeting – July 2009
Wow! I have been remiss as a blogger. No posts since April. I logged in and see there are five drafts I haven’t finished. I don’t know if this has anything to do with the fact that I started using Twitter in the meantime. Twitter: It’s like a sputtering of creative sparks, 140 character sparks [...]
COLARC Meeting – April 2009
Software Archeology was the topic of the presentation given by Michael Rozlog of Embarcadero Technologies at this month’s meeting of the Columbus Architecture Group. As a software developer, you sometimes inherit code that you had nothing to do with creating. This can happen for a variety of reasons but the end result is you have [...]
CONDG Meeting – March 2009
I knew this month’s meeting of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group was going to be a break from the norm when I heard Alan Stevens jamming on his guitar as I approached the meeting room. He was belting out the words to REM’s End of the World as we Know It (and I feel [...]
ColARC Meeting – March 2009
I’ve heard the announcements for the meetings of the Columbus Architecture Group few times at the CONDG meetings and decided to check it out. They did a series of short presentations in the lightning talk (also known as blitz babble) format. Brian Disbrow talked about company strategy as it relates to the tensions and trade-offs [...]
CONDG Meeting – February 2009
This month’s meeting of the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group featured a presentation by Jon Kruger on unit testing and test-driven development in JavaScript. Links related to the presentation: QUnit – Jon used QUnit and JQuery in his demo. YUI Test PairProgrammingBot.com Hudson – Continuous Integration. Other links from the meeting: NPlus1.org Central Ohio Day [...]