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CBQ
I’ve updated my course material for the class I’m teaching at the Big Nerd Ranch next week. We’re teaching Ruby and Ruby on Rails in a 7-day, intensive course for those new to programming and those who want an in-depth exposure to Ruby before diving into Rails.
I wanted to share this diagram I made for the new Rails 2.3.2 architecture—a mix between Marketing material and Architecture diagram that I’m calling a “Marketecture” diagram:
In addition to talking about Rails’ semi-new focus on RESTful controllers, there’s even a section on Test-Driven Development with Rails with the new TestCase libraries.
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CBQ
Derek and Andre learned a thing or two about sponsoring and presenting Scout at the Golden Gate Ruby Conference this weekend.
Being a product owner ourselves (and developers on many web-based products for lots of companies), we know that the marketing and sales side of a product is half the battle.
Read Lessons from our First Tech Conference and vote +1 in the comments if you think Derek could stunt double for the ShamWow guy.
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ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Yesterday, NPR’s Marketplace aired a segment featuring their “Eye on the Bailout”—a Ruby on Rails application to track the $1.1 trillion taxpayer-funded bailout. Behind this Rails app is a one smart development and investigative team. The app is fully RESTful (allowing developers to pull and syndicate bailout related data in several formats), and it also pulls in feeds from several different news sources.
Highgroove was all too eager to help, but the real credit goes out to the amazing development team, led by Dan Nguyen and Scott Klein.
Read the segment on Marketplace.
Link: Eye on the Bailout
