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Hi, I'm Ruby on Rails...

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
From the awesome gang of Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer....

#rails-contrib and rubyonrails-stacks

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
RailsConf gave birth to a number of new outlets for sub-communities within the Rails family: #rails-contrib is a new IRC channel on freenode for contributors...

Taking expirations out of caching

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
It’s been said that the two last hard problems in programming are naming things and expiring caches. The first is going to be hard to sidestep entirely...

Cranking up the machinery

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
So I finally had a few spare moments to work on the Loud Thinking machine again. Instead of going with one of the million packages out there, I decided...

While we're hoping that the backups are good

~5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
Loud Thinking is down for the count while the server that held it up for the past six years is in ICU. Hopefully it'll make it through and allow the archives...

Digesting RailsConf 2007

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
Going from five to sixteen hundred people is a big risk for a conference. There's so much to loose: The atmosphere, the coherence of content, and the interestingness...

Why there's no Rails Inc

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
IDC predicts the market for open-source software will reach some six billion dollars in 2011. No wonder the VCs are getting anxious to play on that roulette...

Multi-core hysteria and the thread confusion

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
New CPUs are growing in cores and not in GHz. That's a tough problem for applications that have been traditionally single-threaded, like games. They have...

Bratwurst on Rails at RailsConf Europe

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Riding Rails.
The Berlin Ruby User Group is throwing a pre-RailsConf party under the banner of Bratwurst on Rails. The Ruby User Group Berlin is one of the biggest...

Registraion open for RailsConf Europe 2007

almost 5 years ago by David Heinemeier Hansson on Loud Thinking.
I've actually never been to Berlin before, so I'm excited to get the chance to not only see one of the great cities of Europe, but at the same time share...