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Ruby Namespace Conflicts

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Declare new Classes Inside Modules to Avoid Conflicts In the ruby language you cannot have a Module with the same name as a Class. The reason is that...

The Large application.rb File.

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Where? A common phenomenon starting to appear in some larger Rails applications is a bloated application.rb file. Why does this happen? Most of the time...

Luke Bailey and His Ukulele / Tony Macaluso and The Procrastinators

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Tony Macaluso is getting quite a following here in Orlando. We’re playing tomorrow night, Friday 7/28 9:00 PM at Underground Bluz located at <...

Rails Conference 2006 - Day 4

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Flashdotted As the conference winded down, the great information was coming fast and furious. But my mind was a bit overwhelmed. I took in a talk about...

The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Raakt I was excited to see that Peter Krantz heard the call from the Rails Core team for education about accessibility issues and created Raakt(Ruby Accessibility...

Rails Conference 2006 - Day 2

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
More Women than Dells Today was mind expanding. Above all else, I got to know some fantastic people. Before the opening keynote I had breakfast with...

Rails Conference 2006 - Day 3

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Working Software Over Comprehensive Documentation After throwing back a few drinks with some software icons the night before, I managed to make it to the...

Rails Conference 2006 - Day 1

almost 6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
I’m registered now at Rails Conference. The first day was awesome, though I got in late. I forgot what a great speaker Dave Thomas is. Someone...

Tony Macaluso and Friends

~6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Tony Macaluso and Friends are playing at Stardust Coffee and Film this Saturday , May 13th at 9:30 PM. All Star Central Florida Lineup Tony’s friends...

Agile Fever

~6 years ago by Mike Blake on Martinicity.
Chad Fowler is the author of an exciting new book Rails Recipes and the organizer of Rails Conference 2006. I’m geeking out today because Chad has...