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Just in case anyone is interested, I''ve just published an article on the SOA Ranch that walks you through, step by step, how to consume a web service from within a Rails application. The article is available at: http://www.soaranch.com/articles/2006/8/3/soa-on-rails-part-2-consuming-a-rails-web-service-from-a-rails-application.html This part shows how to consume a Rails-provided web

Congrats David!!! Very cool. Erik Begin forwarded message: > From: "O''Reilly Media" <ormadmin at oreilly.com> > Date: March 30, 2007 6:22:36 PM EDT > To: erik at ehatchersolutions.com > Subject: New Short Cut: Ferret > > ***New from the O''Reilly Store*** > > Ferret > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527853 > > By David

The call for participation for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention has been posted. It''s included below, and you can find it online here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/ The conference is July 24-28, and the deadline for submissions is February 13. Early submissions help! In 2005, Ruby built huge momentum at OSCON; all of the Ruby tutorials

Hello Rubyists! We on the OSCON presentation committee wanted to remind you all that the deadline for proposals for this year''s O''Reilly Open Source Convention is Midnight (PST) Feb 13. So you have the rest of this week and the weekend to get those talk proposals in! The talk proposal form is here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/create/e_sess/ You can read more

An article I wrote that provides a basic introduction to R has been published on Oreillynet.com. The article is titled "Analyzing Statistics with GNU/R". Here is the link: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/11/17/r_for_statistics.html Please feel free to post comments or interesting basic R scripts at the end of the article. Kevin Farnham

Most of you have probably read the interview with Zed Shaw: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html I posted a companion interview with Luis Lavena this morning, you can read it in English at: http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/interview_with_luis_lavena_2.html It''s also available in German:

Hi all, Sorry if I should be posting this elsewhere--I couldn''t find an Instiki specific mailing list, but the Instiki site is down. I wanted to mention that my friend Tim Lauer and I are going to be doing a short "high order bit" talk at the O''Reilly Emerging Technologies conference, describing a particular use of Instiki which we came up with:

Though it''s pretty straightforward stuff, I figured maybe some Merb users would be interested in this article: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2008/01/14/shoes-meets-merb-interfacing-a-gtk2-front-end-and-a-rails-web-service.html Brad and I built a tiny merb pastebin app that serves up YAML, which is used by a little Shoes GUI. Anyway... enjoy... and please let me know if

My proposal for a BOF session at ETech was accepted! Any Rails-folk in attendance on Tuesday are encouraged to come to Elizabeth Ballroom A between 8:30-930pm. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2006/view/e_sess/9113 The goal for the session is to discuss how we can empower ourselves to return to our local peer communities and advocate Rails as the web development technology people

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If this was already posted here, my apologies. As a long time Perl hack (cough, cough) and now RoR convert, I''m thrilled to see other groups getting involved for the exposure. Aren''t you? Let''s fill up the comments and show we''re alive! http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/ Ok, well I haven''t posted anything yet but hey my coffee cup fell dry ;o) -r

FYI On the ISN vulnerability I found a really good article on Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN) vulnerability and according to this article all Linux Kernels after 1996 are not affected by this vulnerability. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/security_sources_article-2968.html I found another article that stated : Operating systems that have been reported to be safe from practical attacks

Hello, I''m wondering if there is any plan to leverage SQL92 INFORMATION_SCHEMA in ActiveRecord? In a nutshell, INFORMATION_SCHEMA provides the meta information necessary to automatically discover all the associations between objects (primary and foreign keys, has_many, has_one and belongs_to, etc). Most relational databases do support this SQL92 standard one way or another*:

Hi, I am developing a ruby on rails application for getting all users tweets from twitter after twitter login from my application I am able to get user_id,email,provider,name etc from twitter login but I want to use Twitter Api to get all the tweets of the user who is doing twitter sign in from my application I followed this post "*

Hey folks, Unfortunately I''m not at RailsConf but if there are enough people interested in PDF generation in Ruby / Rails, please consider using the BoF sessions or some other time to get together and share thoughts about how PDF generation in Ruby can be better, and then have someone post notes from your discussions to the Prawn mailing list[0]. There are already a bunch of folks

Hey there, Just wanted to drop a line and let people know that I'll be heading to San Francisco for O'Reilly's Etel. If you are interested in attending, there are some free passes floating around. If anyone is interested in getting together for a beer, let me know! Info on the conference can be found here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etel2006/ I'm looking forward to an

I have not yet seen this article posted to this list, so I thought many of us would be interested in having a look at this project sponsored by O'Reilly: http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2007/01/help_create_the_asterisk_cookb.html It seems they are looking for both problems and solutions, and I'm sure we'll have plenty :) l. -- Loway Research - Home of QueueMetrics

Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails (Part 1) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/04/19/understanding-activerecord-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-heart-of-rails-part-1.html?page=1 Rails is advertised as a model-view-controller web framework. In this two-part article, we''ll be focusing on the M in MVC. Specifically, we''ll be talking about

I believe you can assign processors in vmware, and xen as well. So you could probably do something funky like that to try to reduce load. The only thing that probably becomes difficult is trying to manage physical hardware between virtual machines. John -----Original Message----- From: Jim Van Meggelen [mailto:jim.vanmeggelen@coretel.ca] Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 7:47 PM To:

This seems like a piece members of this list would find interesting... === There is growing concern over the interaction of VoIP systems with the legacy PSTN, and the transmission of caller identity data--most notably, Caller ID on the PSTN. It is not always possible, or obvious how, to handle Caller ID data when moving to or from VoIP and the PSTN networks. There are even business models