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Productivity Talk abstract and resources

Thanks to everyone who came out to Raleigh.rb last night for my talk. You can hear the talk (mp3 ~25 mb) thanks to Matthew Bass. The sound quality is decent considering it was just recording right into his macbook.
I’ve posted more details from the talk, the abstract, and references (books, tools, etc) at […]

I Can Has Productivity?

I’ll be speaking at Raleigh.rb tomorrow on Productivity, Ruby, and how to get more stuff done. Spend more time programming and less time reading about programming (or reading PerezHilton, if thats your poison).
If you are in the area you should come out and say hi. Productivity is serious business.

Zed and Geoffrey, laying it down, httperf style

I’ve been waiting for this screencast for awhile. Our team at SeekingAlpha has been doing a ton of work with load testing, performance, and optimization, in both Rails and PHP (ugh). I’ve used httperf a bit but still don’t feel like I really “get it”. Its great to see Zed and Geoffrey […]

Ruby on Rails for Java Programmers - PDF finally uploaded

About seven months I did a presentation for the various Wisconsin Java User Groups introducing Ruby and Rails to Java programmers. It was a nice, friendly presentation comparing code between Ruby and Java, and I had some fun discussions with some of the attendees looking to sneak Ruby into their Java shops.
When I posted […]

Mac vs PC - the Holy War

Will Shipley’s hilarious presentation [pdf] has a slide that really boils down the mac vs pc debate to its essence:
Mac people use their computers
Windows people put up with their computers
So what do Linux people do then?

Packing up for the Ajax Experience

Well, almost everything is packed for the flight out to SF for the Ajax Experience tomorrow. I’ve got MarsEdit freshly installed, so hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with the sessions and do some decent summaries for ajaxian. I see that San Francisco is supposed to have a high around 70 with […]

Presenting at Waterfall 2006

Waterfall 2006 looks like its shaping up to be a great conference. I can’t wait for Dion’s talk, and I’ll also be joining him for a couple new Ajax talks:
Ajax: Why Its Impossible to Test, and Why You Shouldn’t Even Try
Ajax Effects: […]

Presenting tonight at Fox Valley Jug, and dealing with anxiety

Nice timing to see a post over on Presentation Zen about dealing with presentaton anxiety. Tonight I’m doing the refactoring session ad the Fox Valley JUG, just outside Green Bay. Also perfect timing was the onset of a cold and horrible […]

JRuby session at Javaone 2006

Its pretty exciting to see a JRuby talk accepted at JavaOne 2006. At least someone at Sun gets it about alternative dynamic languages on the JVM. This is at least one good reason to stick around after the Ajax Experience for JavaOne.
This part of the abstract is particularily compelling:
We plan for JRuby to […]

First No Fluff Just Stuff session of 2006 posted

The first NFJS show has been posted for 2006 for Milwaukee on Feb 24-26th. The full session listing has quite things that I either missed last year or are just new:

Programming Java Concurrency - as I mentioned earlier, concurrency is something I would really like to expand my knowledge on in 2006.
Unit Testing Best […]