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Speaking Twice At ABLEconf: Saturday, September 20th, 2008
I’ll be giving two sessions this Saturday, September 20th, 2008 at ABLEconf: Arizona Business and Liberty Experience hosted at the University of Advancing Technology. The first will be a ~50 minute getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type session aimed at developers similar to the one I’m giving this Wednesday for Joe Developer. The second will be a plug-heavy talk over how…
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Speaking At Joe Developer: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
This Wednesday evening, OpenRain will be hosting and providing food for Phoenix’s East-valley Joe Developer group. I’ll be giving a getting-started-with-ruby-on-rails type demo, after which I’m sure there’ll be good conversation and fun. Attendance and food are free. Food will be hot at 6PM. [Venue] [Google Group]
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Journeta Podcast Now Available (Rubyology #70)
Chris Matthieu of Rubyology has posted the audio from my PRUG talk last week on building Ruby P2P apps with Journeta. Chris did an excellent editing job and the final product turned out very well! [iTunes] [Web] Running Time: ~1:04
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Financial Primer For Self-Funded Startups, Part 1
You’ve considered starting your own business–ExampleTech–and have pondered the initial investment, opportunity costs and personal risks. Here’s a brief financial primer on what you need to understand before taking the big leap, and key issues you’ll need to grok for after ExampleTech begins operations. My big leap is OpenRain, for which I manage financial planning and performance amongst a…
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Presenting Journeta At RubyConf 2008
I’m happy to report that my session proposal on the Journeta P2P library has been accepted by the RubyConf 2008 selection committee; I’ll be presenting sometime between November 6th-8th in Orlando, Florida. Awesomely also, fellow hardcore OpenRain‘r Marc Chung has been accepted to speak on Ruby2Ruby. This ups the pressure for OpenRain and the community to release…
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Presenting At September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group
I’ll be presenting at the September 2008 Phoenix Ruby Users Group on Monday, September 8th, covering development of Ruby peer-to-peer applications using OpenRain‘s latest gem release, Journeta. Topics will include Ruby’s threading model, basic networking review, Journeta usage, and live demos. 6:30PM, here. [Location Details] [PRUG Google Group] See you there!
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Ruby Search Bookmarklet For Ru8y.com
Marc Chung put up a quick Ruby documentation search site recently: http://ru8y.org. Here a quick little bookmarklet for your Ruby searching needs. (Drag it to your toolbar.) Ru8y Search
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Handling Self Doubt
I’m an engineer. Always have been. I cronically worry about small flaws which could spiral into unsalvagable disaster, and spend a great deal of time focusing on risk mitigation. I can thus completely identify with Riyad’s “cronic almost-achievement” issue because I felt like a raging victim of self-imposed mediocrity up until several years ago. I…
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Identifying Senior Software Engineers: Six Critical Differences
For HR and legal purposes, most development companies classify Software Engineers into ranks from I to IV (or V). The higher the rank, the higher the responsibilities, expectations, independence and pay grade. To cut it as an interviewer and manager, you’ll need to classify people accurately with a minimum amount of direct personal exposure: a…
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