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If you buy the MEAP (Manning''s version of Beta Books), you can now get the first four chapters of David Black book (that''s nearly 25%!). So far, I''ve been really pleased with it. I just grabbed chapter four, and I''ll be reading it soon. Get more information (or buy a copy) at: http://manning.com/books/black -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8993 If you''ve got feedback, requests for coverage, etc. please let me know. I''ll try to respond in an upcoming column. -- thanks, -pate ------------------------- http://on-ruby.blogspot.com

This is a general invite to any/all Railers in the Seattle area who want to get together for beer/food. Nothing formal, just a "get to know ya" gathering. Details: Thursday, Oct 13 (next week), 7pm Bellevue Red Robin - *http://tinyurl.com/d678c* -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D''Andrew "Dave" Thompson http://dathompson.blogspot.com

Hi all, my family and I are taking a quick sprint through Europe from Aug 3-11. I''d be interested in meeting local Rubyists while we''re there. My schedule is going to look like this: 3-6 London 7 Berlin 8-9 Heidelberg 10-11 Frankfurt Feel free to drop me an email if you''re interested in meeting for a lunch or something. -- thanks, -pate

Hello, I''m seeking a book on rails deployment (I think a general deployment on nix book can helps too) I need in depth information about Apache, FastCGI, (LightTPD maybe). I was thinking always I know what a web server is! but when I think more deeply about it (after reading Capistrano doc) it seems I need more info about app, web and db servers. stuff like how to config the app server

Here is the list of Ruby related projects accepted for GSoC. It includes two very similar projects (seemingly the same project, really, but I''m not saying anything ;) ) using RSpec to build a spec suite for implementations of the Ruby language: http://code.google.com/soc/ruby/about.html I''m, personally, very excited about the implications of this. Thanks to all of you who use,

We want Ogg! :) Details... *Want to win a trip to South By Southwest 2010? Or maybe a Flip Mino video camera? Read on...* *Open Video in 60 Seconds* <http://contest.openvideoalliance.org/> The Open Video Alliance is holding a video contest<http://contest.openvideoalliance.org/>. To enter, just make a video spot explaining open video in 60 seconds or less. Then upload it anywhere and

Check this out! Finalist IT Group is about to participate in the Development Tools 2006 contest on 23 en 24 February with two teams. One of those teams is a /Ruby-on-Rails team/. Development Tools 2006 (formerly known as RAD Race), is not just a contest for developing applications as fast as you can. It''s also a serious showcase, evaluation and analysis of the development tools that

> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com > [mailto:asterisk-users-admin@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Burr > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:31 PM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] CONTEST: Top Posters win 80G Hard Drive > > > We have a new contest starting today! > > The first three

We often find ourselves reading through all sorts of contests on the Internet that never seem to echo our own personal skill set or interests. Perhaps you've even fantasized about a type of contest with the types of prizes and goodies that YOU'D actually enjoy. Maybe you've wished there were something along the lines of a asterisk phone system diagram contest? With prizes ranging from

A short entry, but good words about Rails. http://ablog.apress.com/?p=842 -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

I just launched the website for Rails Day 2006, the second annual 24 hour Ruby on Rails development contest. Teams of one to three people have 24 hours to develop a Rails application from scratch. When the contest is over, entries are judged, and cool prizes are awarded. http://www.railsday2006.com/ Sponsoring Rails Day is a great way to promote your company to the geek demographic. If

Hi there, The results have just been in and the Ruby-on-Rails team from Finalist IT Group reached an incredible _second_ place! We''re actually so surprised, that I personally expect the start of RoR projects here soon. We''ve already announced some RoR courses. And that while we''re mainly a Java-only shop! You can read a report from one of the participating

Hello all, I work for a company located in Madison, WI and we''re looking at replacing a pre-Struts J2EE ecommerce app with Rails. ''ve been using Rails with pleasure for the last year on several supporting applications, and I have everyone else convinced that it''s at least worth investigating. The developer team has a few experienced Java developers who are

Dear all, I just saw for the first time the 'Matlab Programming Contest' at http://www.mathworks.com/contest/overview.html Is there something comparable for R? Is someone interested in organizing such a thing? Of course, one can try to solve the Matlab Problems Sets in R, but I think it could be fun to have something like this also for R. Thanks and have a nice weekend everyone,

Christian Gross, the author of AJAX and Best Practices, runs a blog at http://www.devspace.com/ and has started a poll asking which language he should port his AJAX patterns to next. (They are currently available for Java and .Net). If anyone''s interested in seeing Ruby up next, you might head over to the blog and cast your vote. -- thanks, -pate -------------------------

I've searched the archives and find a lot of references to corrupted indexes but can't seem to find any solutions. It seems like folks either have the problem or they don't. We recently migrated from a RedHat Linux server to an OpenBSD 3.7 server (both using dovecot). Imap was working flawlessly on the RedHat box but now gives numerous index errors. I then upgraded to

Hi I''m having a really hard time trying to get a specific form in RoR to work. I''m trying to build a really simple page which lets the user make a pizza by setting check boxes. The choose their toppings, click submit and the form does a callback and shows them how much it will cost to have a pizza with those toppings on. At the moment I have the following: View: <%=

*Want to win a trip to South By Southwest 2010? Or maybe a Flip Mino video camera? Read on...* *Open Video in 60 Seconds* <http://contest.openvideoalliance.org/> The Open Video Alliance is holding a video contest<http://contest.openvideoalliance.org/>. To enter, just make a video spot explaining open video in 60 seconds or less. Then upload it anywhere and tell us the URL. Our

Hi, I've been using Xapian for a while. But there is a scene I don't know whether supported already. Suppose: 1. Raw query: how to make pizza 2. Parsed query: how AND to AND make AND pizza 3. Documents: d1: how to make pizza at home d2: 3 ways to make pizza d3: make pizza in 4 easy steps Question: 1. During searching process, how to retrieve d2, d3 (although they don't