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EuroOSCON Brussels Walkabout

over 5 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
James Duncan Davidson called for a EuroOSCON Brussels Walkabout in lieu of what they did for OSCON earlier this year. If you are a geek with a camera...

Attending EuroOSCON 2006

almost 6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
Following up with last years convention in Amsterdam, I’ll also be attending this year’s O’Reilly EuroOSCON in Brussels taking place from September...

Look ma! I'm on Amazon!

almost 6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
So yeah, this is (partially) where I’ve been hiding (and will hide for a few more weeks). And no, the cover isn’t final yet. ...

Revisiting Time#strftime localization

almost 6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
Preface: Please read my earlier article about this topic for background information. The folks behind Ruby-GetText have been busy bees in the last few...

Freelancing Rails? Send in your application!

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
I have two Rails projects coming up which I’m not able to handle on my own as I’m on a tight schedule. Who am I looking for? Programming...

Introducing acts_as_searchable

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
As promised in the last article about scaling, I am hereby introducing my first publicly released Rails plugin. Preface Implementing fulltext searching...

The adventures of scaling, Stage 4

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
What is this series about? While a couple of high-traffic sites are being powered by Rails and while the Rails book has a handful of instructions to...

The adventures of scaling, Stage 3

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
What is this series about? While a couple of high-traffic sites are being powered by Rails and while the Rails book has a handful of instructions to...

The adventures of scaling, Stage 2

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
What is this series about? While a couple of high-traffic sites are being powered by Rails and while the Rails book has a handful of instructions to...

Q&A: The adventures of scaling, Stage 1

~6 years ago by scoop on poocs.net - Home.
My initial article about the scaling journey we went through with eins.de generated quite some buzz in the Rails niche of the web. A lot more than I had...