Kevin Barnes has a great article about the philosophical differences in modern day languages. Good read.

Code Craft - Freedom languages - JournalHome.com

Use Streamlined with Rails!
It takes the whole concept of views and cranks it up a notch.
If you don’t trust me (and why would you…) then watch the screencast.

Wanna use link_to, but dynamically change one of the options (like class)?
Here’s a cool tip for changing it based on the current controller / action:

Highlight link for current action

My company, Apollo Group Inc, does rock. Besides the killer heath insurance, my bosses have agreed to send me to RubyConf 2006 in Denver! WooHoo! I was scheduled to go to Denver later that week for a WebLogic training anyways. I pleaded to get the plane tickets moved a few days early so I’m able to hit RubyConf.

Yeah - pretty nerdy, but I’m ok with that.

One of the best ways to describe the whole http “REST” concept:
How I explained REST to my wife…

Nice - this is the kind of thing that almost brings me to tears when it comes to sweet dynamic languages.

Take the red pill: http://www.nobugs.org/developer/ruby/method_finder.html

One of the best things about my current position is all the time I’m getting to spend with Ruby and Rails. After having written 3 different web frameworks myself for internal projects, Rails is *so* freaking cool.

I just saw this on diggdot.us: Rails 1.1 updates!

One of the many things that I’m excited to play with is RJS. The default AJAX stuff was nice, but no easy to customize without having to drill into the javascript. With RJS, life just keeps getting better.

Thanks David.

I’m back - the blog is back up and now I’m coming to you live from Arizona.

My new job is with the Apollo Group (#38 in Computerworld’s Top 100 IT workplaces in the USA) doing release automation, systems admin and other sundry things.

One of the most exciting things I’ll be doing in diving head first into Ruby and Rails. I’m working on porting all our deployment scripts to Ruby (Capistrano?) and build a nice web interface using Rails. Peachy!

… the WRT54G. I’m starting work on a Rails site for the WRT54G admin web-interface. It’ll be fun, AJAX-y and Web 2.0 it all it’s goodness. Why not?

It turns out the hardest part is getting rails and all it’s dependancies on the box!

I started with: http://handhelds.org/feeds/ruby/

After loading the ruby-large package, I’ll try to get GEM going.

[Hmm.. do people use CPAN when working with perl compiled for ARM? Should I screw GEMs and package up the rails code itself? Find out on the next episode!]

Instead of MySQL, I’ll throw in SQLite for the backend, thought it looks like I’ll have to compile the ruby-sqlite bindings for ARM myself if they are written in C (and I don’t have GEMs available.)

I had the great opportunity to meet with Jared Smith, Asterisk Guru and author. He was up doing some VOIP consulting for my company. What a cool guy! I had him up to talk to the LUG a few months ago and was impressed with his knowledge and it was good to see him again. He recently switched to ful-time consulting and gets to have all kinds of fun going to uber-geek conventions and the like. I truly am jealous. The good thing is he gave me a copy of his book and even signed it for me.

He spoke of his fun at The O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. He hob-nobbed with some alpha geeks. We spoke about scripting language integration and I mentioned my Ruby affection. He told me about a talk given at the conference about some sweet ruby Asterisk intergration (ala RAGI) and some real cool news about Rails / Asterisk intergration. Dang fine!

After some Googling it turns out my hero for this week is Joe Heitzeburg. His talks is entitled “Ruby on Rails with Asterisk.”

Sweet article here.