PragDave

Rails Studio Pasadena

From the “bad news, good news” department…

The Rails Studio in Denver has sold out, but Mike and Nicole have just announced a third studio. This one’s on the west coast, in (hopefully) sunny Pasadena on January 26-28. This time we’re being hosted by Earthlink, and we really appreciate their support of the local developer community.

If you’re interested, I suggest signing up fairly early—we seem to fill up fairly fast.

Announcing the Ajax Studio

Love and marriage, horse and carriage, Rails and Ajax.

OK, so they don’t rhyme, but they still go together. So it’s only natural that following on from the Rails Studio, Mike and Nicole would branch out and announce the Ajax Studio. The first one will be held in Reston on February 9-11.

Who’s giving it? It was an easy choice. I’m very possessive about the “Pragmatic” label, so I’ll only be happy when Pragmatic Studios were given by people I know and trust. The Ajax training will be given by two of the best: Stu Halloway and Justin Gehtland. Not only are they experts in the field, they also happen to be two of the best speakers and trainers I know. So, if you’d like to add some Ajax magic to your web applications (ASP.NET, Java, and Rails), you might want to check this out.

(ps. Mike tells me the Denver Rails Studio has only a couple of seats left, so if you’re thinking of going, now’d be a good time to call.)

Chad Fowlers Speaks!

SysCon interviewed Chad Fowler about My Job Went to India. Lots of cool music talk too.

Second Ruby on Rails Studio

I’ve been biting my lip about this, so it’s a relief to be able to announce the second Pragmatic Ruby on Rails Studio. It’ll be in Denver on January 19—21. We’re planning some changes to kick the New year off with a bang, so if you’re in the area and fancy three intense but fun days learning about Rails, check us out.

A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words

‘nuff said...

The Key To Understanding

I’m applying copy edits to Chris Pine’s Learn to Program book, and I came across the following in the section on class objects. It struck me as good advice regardless of the context:

If this makes sense to you right now, then stop thinking about it! You might screw it up! ;) Otherwise…don’t sweat it too much. Move on; let your subconscious do the work later.

Build MySQL/Ruby/Rails on Tiger

Courtesy of James Duncan Davidson comes these intructions on getting lighttpd, Rails, and MySQL running on Tiger.

Magical Thinking

I'm reading Augusten Burroughs' wonderful “Magical Thinking” on the plane to Boston. It opens with a definition which I couldn’t help but mutate:

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