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by bscofield 15y ago
Or you could just use RailsInstaller - http://railsinstaller.org/
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Announcing Heroku for Logo... powered by Heroku(blog.heroku.com)
121 points by bscofield 16y ago|11 comments
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by bscofield 16y ago
Please check http://status.heroku.com/ for details - we've seen two issues this morning, so updates will be posted there (and to @herokustatus)
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by bscofield 16y ago
Not seeing the benefit of this over SpeakerRate ( http://speakerrate.com ), which has been around for a year and change.
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Yep, TechStars just open sourced the Seed Accelerator model(techstars.org)
5 points by bscofield 16y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 16y ago
Or you can approach it from the philosophy side; one of the profs in my grad program was a joint appointment in philosophy (logic) and computer science.
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by bscofield 16y ago
The Terra Plana Vivo Barefoot are your best bet - take a look at http://www.terraplana.com/vivobarefoot.php
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by bscofield 16y ago
In my experience, practice is by far the best salve for nerves. If you can give your talk cold, without slides, while being attacked by bees, a couple of thousand people won't bother you in the slightest. Luckily, you're speaking in the bes
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Share your TSA experience(thetsachoice.com)
2 points by bscofield 16y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 16y ago
Join us at Heroku's offices[1] in San Francisco for the first-ever Heroku Users Group meetup - followed by a drink-up jointly hosted with Basho. 1: http://bit.ly/a1s88R
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Heroku Users Group meetup, 11/3 @ 7pm(blog.heroku.com)
10 points by bscofield 16y ago|1 comments
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Tuesday's Heroku outage post-mortem(blog.heroku.com)
69 points by bscofield 16y ago|41 comments
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by bscofield 16y ago
Did anyone think they were? I still say it's more harmful to dredge this up from 17 months ago, as opposed to any of the discussions that've been held since then.
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by bscofield 16y ago
This article is well over a year old -- what do we gain by revisiting it now? There was a huge debate and discussion at the time, and the vast majority of the community has moved on.
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by bscofield 16y ago
I was working on a framework like this, too -- I spoke about it at RubyConf in 2008, and the last version of the code (from 2009) is at http://github.com/bscofield/athena I put it on hold a while back, though I'm thinking about bringing i
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by bscofield 17y ago
Simple? It's not like you're sit around eating snacks and thinking about a topic for 10,000 hours - that's 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, which is hard work .
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Developer Resolutions for 2010(viget.com)
2 points by bscofield 17y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 17y ago
Really? The skills tested here seem utterly trivial... It was fun for a few minutes, but nowhere near challenging enough to make me sit up and take notice (of course, YMMV)
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by bscofield 17y ago
I'll be in the Atlanta area around Thanksgiving if you wanted one not-regular-attendee person - I might be able to sneak away from the in-laws for a meetup.
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Some misconceptions about NoSQL(viget.com)
32 points by bscofield 17y ago|24 comments
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by bscofield 17y ago
Aw, man - I thought I'd coined "polyglot persistence." Darn InfoQ article from July (referenced in this article)!
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Database taxonomy(viget.com)
11 points by bscofield 17y ago|1 comments
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by bscofield 17y ago
One of the complaints that people have about the NoSQL label is that it attempts collect a huge variety of databases that don't fit the traditional label under one name. The problem with that is illustrated in this article, which does a gre
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by bscofield 17y ago
Nice! I just added a project like this to my "weekend apps" list a couple of days ago.
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by bscofield 17y ago
I've used Twitter to poll peers, learn new things, coordinate meetups, find out breaking news, discover useful resources, and more. All of those are valuable to me. In the end, it's what's valuable to you. If you can't (or don't want to) fi
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by bscofield 17y ago
Doesn't that just mean you're following the wrong people? It's not like Twitter forces you to listen to (or continue to listen to) people when you're not getting value from them.
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Polyglot Persistence(benscofield.com)
1 points by bscofield 17y ago|0 comments
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by bscofield 17y ago
LaunchBox Digital is a DC-area incubator along the lines of YC and TechStars - you could try connecting with them to see if they know of any startups looking for devs. If that fails, I could also connect you with my CEO (I work for Viget La
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Git: A Designer's Perspective(viget.com)
42 points by bscofield 17y ago|5 comments
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by bscofield 17y ago
I did - Mind Control: Psychology for the Web: http://bit.ly/HUyl9 Difficult Domains: Alternative Databases for the Web: http://bit.ly/9sK0a (Hmm, guess adding "for the Web" wasn't required after all :)

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