Breaking the silence – this was posted by “tprentis” on IBM forum for DB2 on Rails Toolkit I’m a recent convert to Ruby on Rails. My organization has several (over 50) iSeries machines on our WAN. As MIS manager, I plan to start pushing RoR development in the near future but really need that DB2 iSeries connector running. Please...
I arrived at Amman’s (Queen Alia’s airport) at 8:00 PM. George & Karim were waiting there with a sign carrying, not my name, but rather “Ruby on Rails” – all in red . As they haven’t seen me in person, they figured out that a RoR sign will get them a real smile or a nice wave and it...
I’m off to Amman, Jordan, to meet the team behind iToot. We’ll be mostly talking RoR, the web, and whatever we’ll come up with. I first came to know itoot from their posting on jobs.rubynow where they announced a need for a RoRailer. We started corresponding back in April, but things didn’t materialize except in the last couple of...
After boarding the Royal Jordanian (RJ) plane heading for Amman, and while waiting for the take-off we were asked by the stewardess to hand in all what we have of, not knives, not nail clippers, not sprays, not cork screws, not shoes, but rather hand in all of our Guavas! Some people have boarded the plane with some guava...
Following the wonderful post at svn for the “most beautiful thing”, I felt the urge to wander in the opposite direction. What’s the Ugliest thing you’ve seen lately ? Feel free to have multiple replies. Technorati Tags: ugly, opinions, poll, svn, beautifulpowered by performancing firefox Trip to and back from work. Sometimes I HAVE to close my eyes, that’s...
Remember the idea I once had? (as if I have dedicated reads 🙂 .. Well, it’s resurfaced again. As I was reviewing itoot, I wanted to know what itoot bloggers are really talking about. So, another Mashup? pretty close. My idea was to aggregate the feeds, parse them, pass their contents to an auto-tagging service/API, then put the result...
While talking to a good friend last night, we came up with a new DD acronym. Introducing the SDD or “Stability Driven Development” 🙂 . Although, it was meant to funnily describe how some people regard their careers in the context of their responsibilities, the same idea can be used to come up with really genuine DD names: BDD:...
Finally, a progress in the DB2 – Rails front. the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails has just been released. Although, we’re on a DB2 iSeries, the work required for a DB2/400 – Rails combination is doable and there’s a good chance I can sell Rails to the people here.
This link shows how things would look like for my home city if sea level rises ONLY 1 m. Although, most of the city will not be affected, yet, it seems that It has turned into an island, which would definitely make it uninhabitable. What is our geovernment doing??? What is the world doing??? Hellooooo. The mashup was prepared...
Yesterday I presented Ruby on Rails for the first “real” time to a group of developers and interested minds. I think it went well. It was an introduction that covered a step-by-step for developing a simple issue tracking application (we traded off many of the application features to exploring the capabilities of Ruby and Ruby on Rails). The intelligent...