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This is the personal blog of Jason Seifer. I'm a web developer, podcaster, and beer geek. You can find me elsewhere on the web at Twitter, Flickr, Fotolog, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Last.fm, YouTube, Vimeo, and Twisted Mind.
Live blogging BizConf Day 2
Day 1 of BizConf was phenomenal and I'm going to try and keep up the live blogging for day 2. I missed the lightning talks last night but heard great things from everyone who went. I've got my camera charged up today so I'll try and get some...
Read More Liveblogging Bizconf
I'm lucky to attend BizConf so I thought I'd blog about my experience here. I can't promise to get every presentation here but I'll try my best. This post will be updated as things happen.
Impressions so far: amazing conference. I've never been to a conference where so many...
Read More Using the Rails logger outside of models and controllers
You can use the Rails logger outside of Rails models in at least version 2.3.X and up of Rails. You might be used to doing the following in your models or controllers:
logger.info "Some debugging info I want to see in my development log."
If you make a regular...
Read More Getting RSpec and TextMate to play nice
Elijah Miller has a great blog post on getting TextMate and RSpec to play nicely together. This is pretty useful for just running specific spec files. Also, did you know you can get TextMate to automatically recognize spec files by naming them with the .spec extension and RSpec...
Read More Microsoft deems Ruby on Rails a competitor
Numerous commercial software vendors offer competing software applications for connectivity (both Internet and intranet), security, hosting, and e-business servers. System Center competes with server management and server virtualization platform providers, such as BMC, CA, Inc., Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and VMWare in the management of information technology infrastructures. Forefront...
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