http://techblog.daveastels.com This sucks, wouldn't it be cool if...? Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:30:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For my Google peeps. My buddy @stesla is giving a Google tech talk tomorrow at 11:30 in Paramiribo (techtalk 42) on BDD in Go including an introduction to the BDD framework her wrote: gospecify . We'll be there for lunch afterward as well. http://techblog.daveastels.com/2010/01/18/go-behave/ Nancy hit the ground running, whereas I ground to a halt. Ruby worked fine. Rails worked fine. Mysql worked fine. Rails wouldn't talk to Mysql, though. After much head scratching, cursing, and frantic searching for liquor... I hit upon the crux of the problem. While I was ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/08/22/rumble-off-to-a-rocky-start/ All my blogging energies have gone into the EngineYard blog for the last while. This is a just a note to say that Nancy & I are once again taking part in the rails rumble. This time focussing on getting shit done. Pure & simple. No detailed ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/08/22/rumblin/ Well, WWDC is over. I made it this year... and glad of it. What a week (well, 4 days for me)! Lost of new toys & tech. Lots of cool ideas for my after hours fiddling. iPhone 3Gs, iPhone OS 3.0, Snow Leopard, new Mac Book Pros. It's ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/06/13/wwdc-2009/ I'm pleased, tickled, elated, excited, and just plain happy to announce that I've decided to join the kick-ass folks at Engine Yard. Their focus is on-demand deployment and management of Ruby on Rails applications on Amazon EC2. They're movers & shakers in the Ruby & Rails worlds (Engine ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/05/27/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish-masala/ I was working on a post on the idea of us being professional, and that that even means. Mike Hill (@geepawhill) beat me to it. Go read his post. While you're there, check out his other posts... it's all good. http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/05/27/what-he-said/ In his RailsConf keynote Bob Martin channeled Ward Cunningham to say that Smalltalk died because "It was too easy to make a mess". Whether Smalltalk is dead is the subject of much debate. Technically it's not. There is ongoing development on the language and tools (notable by Cincom). ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/05/12/on-smalltalk/ As I've mentioned on Twitter & Facebook, I'm back to doing Ruby & Rails fulltime. Joining Google took me out of the Rails community & largely out of the Ruby community. At least until very recently when I joined a Rails project (yes, at Google.. who'da thought). As noted on my ... http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/05/10/im-back/ Hot of the virtual presses: http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/01/29/the-rspec-book-is-out-in-beta/ Well, RSpec is doing well. A couple things of note recently: part of the install on hivelogic's rails install instructions clear majority favorite on a recent twtpoll: with merb being rolled into Rails, there's speculation that RSpec will be supported by Rails out of the box... that'd be cool http://techblog.daveastels.com/2009/01/09/rspec-is-a-hit-whod-o-thought/