Today marked my last day at Follett Software. Come monday morning I will be a new employee of Tukaiz, a print and interactive solutions company. I’ve been recruited for a newish team that develops with Ruby on Rails, so that’s pretty cool. It was a very hard decision to make because I have a family to take care of now. This was truely the first really hard decision I’ve had to make as an adult. Had I still been single, I would have said “you’re gonna pay me to do something I enjoy?…. where do you want me to sign?”, but it’s a lot more than that now. I hate to say it but I actually accepted the new position and then turned it down and then finally accepted again. I’m sure the company probably is thinking that I’m some sort of loon at this point. Guess they’ll find out on monday ;-)
UPDATE: New version of Mobtropolis video now available!
Alrighty, I recently finished the video presentation from last months Ruby Meetup. After playing around with many different video services, I have decided to upload to Viddler.
Also, as you can see the video quality is not the best. Do any of you have some words of wisdom on compression settings or anything like that to make my life a bit easier? O yeah, and if anyone knows how to do that split screen action like Rails Envy has recently done… I’d like to know about that too.
And now… here is Wil Chung speaking about his social experiment, Mobtropolis.
Well everyone… you knew it was going to happen. The third edition of Agile Web Development with Rails is now out as a beta book. Anyone interested out there… go get it! Especially you beginners, you know who you are! I’ll hopefully have some time soon to do a proper review, so look for that.
Just wanted to let everyone know and of course if you’re a member of ChicagoRuby… don’t forget to use your discount code for some extra discount!
I received this email from RunMyProcess today and I thought it was a little odd
Hello
RunMyProcess is happy to announce a new feature that will increase its possibilities of connection to web applications.
RunMyProcess is now able to emulate the behaviour of a Web Browser.
Therefore, for example, although Basecamp does not provide API to create/update/delete Project/Company/People (operations which you can only perform through your Web Browser), RunMyProcess will emulate a human behaviour to perform such actions: with a specific login service, you will connect to Basecamp server and then perform any operation as if you were connected through your navigator.
We are pretty sure, you will have other needs of such a functionality to retrieve data or perform action on any Web site.
Don’t hesitate to call us for any information
Best regards
RunMyProcess Team
http://www.runmyprocess.com
I understand this is just an ‘example’, but has anyone told them that Basecamp has an API?
Today marked my last day at Follett Software. Come monday morning I will be a new employee of Tukaiz, a print and interactive solutions company. I’ve been recruited for a newish team that develops with Ruby on Rails, so that’s pretty cool. It was a very hard decision to make because I have a family to take care of now. This was truely the first really hard decision I’ve had to make as an adult. Had I still been single, I would have said “you’re gonna pay me to do something I enjoy?…. where do you want me to sign?”, but it’s a lot more than that now. I hate to say it but I actually accepted the new position and then turned it down and then finally accepted again. I’m sure the company probably is thinking that I’m some sort of loon at this point. Guess they’ll find out on monday ;-)
Well everyone… you knew it was going to happen. The third edition of 
