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Member since: 2001-06-15 10:41:45
Last Login: 2008-12-02 00:40:17
Homepage: http://www.hashref.com
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About me
Everlasting student. Interested in X for all X.
Feel free to contact me at `echo -n ska@unfuers.pbz | tr a-z n-za-m`.
Certification
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Pictures of the conference are starting to appear in Flickr. Svet Ivantchev has uploaded a picture of the moment when I received the award.
Conferencia Rails 2008
Back from Conferencia Rails 2008. Had a great time, met a lot of online friends and learnt stuff.
I gave the opening keynoye. This keynote was challenging for me because I am used to give tech talks but here I had to talk about something on-topic for an audience where you could find core contributors, curious people, business people, and even politicians.
There were some technical issues and I had to export my carefully animated Keynote presentation to a flat PDF file. But in the end it went quite well, the feedback from people has been awesome.
In this conference there were two tracks, one for tech talks, and one for exit stories. There has been more testing-related talks than in any past edition of the conference if I remember correctly, I like that trend.
Obie Fernandez gave the closing keynote. He explained how they work at Hashrocket. He went through their premises and how they implement them. The result is an innovative and first-rate Rails company with high standards, they are no doubt a model to follow.
This year the conference gave a couple of awards. Tog received the "Proyecto del Año" award, and I was honoured to get the "Personaje Rails del Año" award.
Working on my keynote for the Conferencia Rails 2008, to be held in Madrid this week.
~1350 Rails core contributors
As part of the work I am doing for my opening keynote for the forthcoming Conferencia Rails 2008 I've written a script to approximate the number of people that has contibuted to Rails so far.
This is not a trivial count because when the Rails repo was under Subversion there were just some conventions to give credit to people in changelogs or commit messages. In addition people were given credit by their name, nickname, email, whatever. There were typos... it was all manual. Now under Git this is more systematic.
So the script tries to extract names from those places, and uses a hand-maintained mapping that normalizes names which has received a great deal of input from the Rails community.
After some days the figure has stabilized around 1350 people, which I think is really impressive and says a lot about the agility of Rails as an open-source project. This is the current listing.
shlomif, that'd be a warning due to an otherwise confusing response. That one is fine, and perhaps it would be better to get back a different page. When an email is involved for example I say it was sent and that people check their spam folder. No prob.
When I edit a task in Things there's no silly message saying "task successfully edited". The task view changes, it is there, it is obvious. You as a developer believe web apps have different user-interfaces, and in this particular aspect of the user interface I don't agree they have to be that different.
I don't mean you should write no warnings, I say you should choose which ones make sense. I feel people abuse and there's inertia to put "Product was successfully modified" gratuitiously.
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