Archive for the 'Rails' Category

acts_as_rickroll

In the spirit of the day I’ve released acts_as_rickroll. Instead of pranking you, I’m releasing a tool for Rails developers to prank other people. If you want to try this out, download the acts_as_rickroll plugin and expand it in your vendor/plugins directory.
This plugin overrides the redirect_to method of ActionController so that if you […]

Interviewing and Hiring programmers

I’ve seen and read a lot of discussions about hiring programmers. Most people claim to want great programmers, but few people know how to even marginally separate the good from the bad. “Great” is a loaded term, and it means different things to different people. What I want to focus on is […]

Inaugural User Group Meeting

We kicked off the first Layton Ruby Brigade meeting last Tuesday. I was a bit nervous that nobody would show up other than Ceaser, but I was planning to have it either way. We ended up getting nine people to come, although three of them were from the Utah Valley contingent. Kevin […]

New Ruby User Group

We (Ceaser Larry and I) are starting a new segment of the Utah Ruby User Group called the Layton.rb. Ironically our first meeting will be held in Clinton, but we expect to find a place in Layton to host the meeting ongoing. The meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of every […]