Notes after the jump.
Aside: They brew insanely strong coffee at the Sheraton…
Avanced Ruby Studio, Day 3
May 9th, 2008 — Ruby
Advanced Ruby Studio, Day 2
May 9th, 2008 — Ruby
This morning session rocked my world. The afternoon session was better than yesterday but, for me, dragged a lot toward the end of the day.
I suspect that my less enthusiastic response to this class vice the Rails class has more to do with my significantly greater experience with Ruby the language than Rails the framework.
That said, I am still finding this class worthwhile to fill in the gaps in my understanding of Ruby to date.
Notes after the jump.
Advanced Ruby Studio, Day One
May 8th, 2008 — Ruby
Notes after the jump (as I write them)
Review of the day: Morning session was excellent and intense. This afternoon has been theory. As of 3:45pm, it hasn’t felt so “advanced”.
Advanced Rails Studio Day 3 (Live Blogging)
May 7th, 2008 — Ruby
The day starts with a list of potential topics. The class body votes on the topics that they want to cover. All of my votes went to ‘file uploads’ for work reasons — and fortunately this pushed it over the top! 
And the results in order are:
- AJAX
- File Uploads
- Perf & Scalability
- Deployment
- AR with unsupported DBs
- Debugging
Notes after the jump:
Advanced Rails Studio Day 2 (Live-blogging)
May 6th, 2008 — Ruby
Notes follow after the jump.
Advanced Rails Studio Notes: Day 1
May 5th, 2008 — Ruby
Lovely start to the day. 2 miles from the hotel, my Prius breaks down and won’t start. WTF?! FAIL! Oddly, 30 minutes later (after perusing the sample app that we’re going to discuss during the class), the car starts again with a warning light. During the class, I’m fucking Grand Central Station: my cell phone rang 4 times before lunch. Again, WTF? I’m not a popular guy. Yeesh!
Hehehe… and Twitter went down just before lunch. Sometimes it’s nice to remember that I’m not the only one who is living in interesting times.
Regarding my notes, it’s worth mentioning that I’ve done a bit of Rails 1.2.x development but haven’t touched Rails 2.x until today. That said, as of this morning, I was comfortable with the theory of REST but not the Rails implementation.
Anyhoo, my notes from Day 1 of the class follow after the jump.
