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Merbivore!

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Merb 0.4 was released earlier today, and the men of Montreal were thus elated. For those that are unfamiliar with it, Merb is a Ruby MVC web framework not...

Reflections on *Camp

over 2 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Last weekend I attended the first-ever New Hampshire PodCamp, organized chiefly by my friend Leslie Poston along with a crew of enthusiastic volunteer co-organizers...

Clone Pastie in 15 Minutes with Sinatra & DataMapper

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Hey there, put on your tutorial hat. Today we’re going to learn how to write a dirt simple pastie clone using Sinatra and Datamapper. For those of...

I Am Not A Freeloader

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So have you heard the new Radiohead album yet? What did you think? And more importantly, what did you pay for it? ComScore estimates that 2 out of 5 of...

Blog Updates

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So I finally got around to migrating the blog site over to Mephisto. I’ve only been planning on doing that for like 9 months. Horray for progress...

Links For 10.30.07

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Not-so-random things you need to know about: New Ruby Logo Unveiled NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 Released Datamapper ORM (add Merb, stir, & bake at 300 for...

JQueryCamp Is Tomorrow!

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
For anyone who’s registered (and presumably in or around the greater Boston area), don’t forget that JQueryCamp is tomorrow! I’ll be there...

Startupping Contests

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
So Ty and I submitted our startup project’s pitch to the Amazon Startup Challenge last night. Wish us luck! The idea (currently implemented as a working...

718-123-2083

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Someone rings my cell phone at 7AM this morning and asks “is this Nicholas”? I answer “yes”, because well, that’s my name...

Git Your Learn On

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Any post about Git pretty much mandates the use of some lame pun in the title, and this blog entry is no exception. For those of you who are as-of-yet unfamiliar...