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...

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...

I’ve always had a problem using the RSS feed from my Basecamp account. This problem occurs because I exclusively use Google Reader for feeds. Reader is one of the many feed readers that DO NOT support authenticated feeds. This would be a feed that requires some sort of username and/or password. Well now this problem is all but eliminated! A new service called FreeMyFeed allows you to enter your authenticated feed as well as your login information to receive a new feed that will be unprotected. They say that your usernames and passwords are never stored but so does every other site on the...

Yes, it can be done! Contrary to popular belief… Windows can be a great Rails development platform. I know that those Mac guys have you all convinced that it’s too hard and painful to do and you should just go be a switcher. Well today I am going to show you, with a little work, you can be up and running with ease….similar to a Mac. To begin, I wanted to say that the basis for this article orginally came from a post over at Garbage Burrito on how to get a Mac-esque development environment using windows. After being asked a few times at my local Ruby group how I develop on a Windows...