Although I’ve helped in many ways over the course of the last year in preparing the Windy City Rails conference, tomorrow I will perform the most important task of the day. I know, I know… you’re probably thinking “you’re not David Hansson, or David Chelimsky“.  Yeah I’m not those guys, but… I’m the guy that’s gonna be giving you your prizes! And what glorious, might I even say fabulous, prizes they are! Throughout the day we will be raffling off various O’Reilly and Addison Wesley books, screencasts from Pragmatic, and a free...

As many of you know… Git is fast becoming the new ‘version control’ system to use.  But with that comes a lot of people attached to previous forms of version control such as Subversion. To help keep people from only listening to the naysayers and learn for themselves… Scott has provided a new page that has all the essential Git information in one easy spot. As far as I can see, Scott has quickly become the ‘go to’ guy when it comes to all things Git.  He’s provided many informative screencasts as well as a fantastic book, and now this!  I suggest that...

I’ve been getting back into Rails lately now that school is over and with the new 2.0 release there has been quite a few changes. The biggest change for me is the whole REST thing. The concept doesn’t seem that hard for me, it’s the dang coding that is getting me hung up. Using the scaffold has let me see what rails generated code would look like, so that’s cool. My problem seems to be in that my controller is nested in a module for the admin section. To get me started I checked out the fantastic Peepcode episode on RESTful Rails and really hit it home with a screencast...