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Hi Folks, We''re excited to announce that Dave Thomas and I will be teaching an Advanced Rails Studio: a hands-on, master-level workshop where you''ll learn the cutting-edge techniques used by the experts to build killer Rails apps with confidence and efficiency. We?re still finalizing exactly when and where we?ll hold this Studio. But if you?re seriously interested in

Hi folks, The Pragmatic Studio is happy to announce the next Rails Studio will be in Reston, VA on April 15-17. If you''re just getting into Rails, or need to get your team members up to speed quickly, this course is for you. In this hands-on workshop, you''ll learn directly from two experienced Rails developers and authors: Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler. You''ll come away

Pragmatic Studio''s Advanced Ruby training is coming up next month (early registration ends soon!), and folks often ask what to expect in our advanced classes. You might also be wondering how Rails developers will benefit from attending this public class. So I asked Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler (the instructors) to share a few of their thoughts on the Advanced Ruby class in this short

Folks: For your cooking pleasure, I''m happy to announce that Chef Fowler has added eight new recipes to his book: * DRY Up Your Database Config * Adding Behavior to Your ActiveRecord Associations * Keep An Eye On Your Session Expiry * Make your URLs Meaningful (and pretty) * Syndicate Your Site With RSS * Handling Bounced Email * Dynamic Database Configuration * Quickly Inspect Your

Hi All, Pragmatic Dave Thomas tells me that Rails Recipes (http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_rr) is now shipping! He and Andy apparently have over a ton of books to deliver. If you''ve ordered a paper book, it''s soon on the way. If you''ve been waiting, now''s the time. Amazon is also has the book in stock

ENTERPRISE RUBY STUDIO Announcing a new offering from Pragmatic Studio: An Enterprise Ruby Studio to be held September 11-13 in Boston, MA. Learn how to use the power and expressiveness of Ruby, and how to use it as your enterprise "glue." ------------------------------------- Use Ruby for Enterprise Software Development ------------------------------------- Enterprise

The second beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s killer book or writing real-world Rails, is now available. It features seven new recipes: * In Place Editing * Making Your Own JavaScript Helper * Many To Many With Attributes On The Relationship * Dealing With Time Zones * Living On The Edge * Making Your Own Rails Plugins (contributed by Rick Olson, aka technoweenie) * Polymorphic

Folks: The fourth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book or writing real- world Rails, is now available. It features nine new recipes (and fixes the PDF bookmark problem): - Secret URLs - Integration Testing - Cheap And Easy Theme Support - Lightning Fast JavaScript Auto Completes - Use Active Record Outside Of Rails - Sharing Models Between Applications - Keeping Track Of Who Did

If you live in the Mountain West (Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, and Utah), or don''t mind a bit of travel, You should look into the 2007 MountainWest RubyConf in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 16th and 17th. We''ve got a great line up of speakers, including the JRuby team, Ara T Howard, and a keynote by Chad Fowler. Registration is just $50, hotels are affordable, and pre/post

Hi Folks, Apologies in advance for the blatant advertisement. Just thought you might be interested in our new regional Ruby/Rails conference series. The first will take place on November 16-18 in Denver, CO. http://therailsedge.com -------------------- What''s It About? -------------------- You all know that Rails and Ruby are on the move. Every month brings new tools, new

Folks: The fifth beta of Rails Recipes, Chad Fowler''s book on writing real-world Rails, is now available. The book now has its full quota for 70 recipes. Here''s the complete list. Part I--User Interface Recipes In-Place Form Editing Making Your Own JavaScript Helper Live Preview Live Search Creating a Drag-and-Drop Sortable List (extract) Update

Hi, I've been doing some development for Pocket PC 2003 applications and have happened to chance upon Speex. To date, I've been having some issues in linking libspeex.lib with my application in MS Visual Studio 2005. Upon building my program, I will always receive the error: fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'd:\Recorder\libspeex.lib' Recorder A brief description

In two weeks, Dave Thomas will be in Pasadena doing a three-day Rails workshop. I''m about to sign up for it. I figure three intense days with Dave and a few dozen other Rails developers will produce huge learning leaps for me. Then it occurred to me that it might be useful to ask the list if anyone has attended one of these workshops before and, if so, how valuable you found

I noticed a pointer to this in some RSS feed today. "Agile Web Development with Rails", release date July 4, 2005. http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html Once you''ve got an ISBN and a title, you''re halfway there. :-) How soon can we pre-order?

I''m working my way through the Pragmatic Programmer book on RoR. Following their examples, I have the following code in a controller: begin @product = Product.find(params[:id]) rescue flash[:notice] = "Invalid product" logger.error("Attempt to access invalid product #{params[:id]}") redirect_to :action => :index else @cart = find_cart

Gentle Web Development Folk: Just in time for RailsConf, I''m happy to announce Jeremy Sydik''s book, "The Accessible Web", is now available in beta. This is particularly sweet as Jeremy and I first discussed this book in the hallways of last year''s conference. This book is all about making your website accessible web sites-- sites that can easily be used

I''m delighted to announce that Chad Fowler''s new book, Rails Recipes, is now available as a Beta Book. This is a great title for folks who know Rails, and for folks who want to get the most out of Rails. It contains detailed recipes for doing real-world things with Rails, all illustrated with working code. Some examples are drawn from Rails 1.1, the rest from Rails 1.0.

Hi, I have an RHEL4 machine running dovecot-1.0.3 + postfix-2.3.2 + postfixadmin + mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1 + amavisd-new-2.5.2-1. The machine only has a gig of memory in it, I am trying to keep it running until I get new hardware to replace it in a couple of weeks. For the most part it works as advertised but every once in a while it stops talking to the auth server. I think I have tracked this

I'm running a USB sound card (SB0270) as well as built-in audio to interface with my RXTX6.3 softrock radio, and I've been trying to get the Amateur Radio program "Rocky" to run. Rocky installs once you copy it to the C: drive and use the Explorer to start the installer, and it comes up, but you cannot select a sound card and after starting Rocky in Wine (.44), you cannot shut

Hopefully this isn''t completely inappropriate, but lately I''ve been curious about what books people have found most helpful in their development as programmers. If one of the icons like Dave Thomas, DHH, Mike Clark, Andy Hunt et al could weigh in that''d be awesome :) Here are some of my favorites: Refactoring, Martin Fowler Mastering Regular Expressions, Friedl