http://www.irubyist.com Rubyist - a term adopted to describe an individual that programs using Ruby Thu, 01 May 2008 10:50:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I just registered the TwitPrune.com domain, based on a suggestion from Rands on Twitter - "TwitPrune: Info on followers which helps me prune folks such as who hasn't updated in forever." Should be a nice little project to play with some weekend. http://www.irubyist.com/2008/04/29/registered-twitprune/   Update: More on Wubud from TechCrunch (here). Irish entrepreneur Paul Walsh is giving away a MacBook Air in order to promote his new venture wubud. So what do you have to do to win? Well very little, you don't have to sell your soul or link to his homepage from a ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/04/29/want-a-free-macbook-air/ If you're anything like me and were at EuRuKo 2008 in Prague, then I'm sure you met a ton of great people from all over Europe. Only thing is I can't remember half of the names and blogs that I wanted to. I do remember one person asking me was ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/04/02/euruko-2008-attendees-linkedin-group/ I have a few invites for each of these websites so if you want one, follow up with a comment saying which of the services you'd like an invite for and I'll send one your way if I have any left. I'll be honest and say I'm finding SocialThing pretty ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/03/20/socialthing-and-jaiku-invites/ I heard about the Euruko 2008 conference a few weeks ago on the RubyIreland mailing list (thanks Chris!) and looked into going over to my first Ruby Conference. Well it's only a couple of weeks away now and I'm all booked up, flights, accomodation and the ridiculously cheap conference ticket ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/03/19/euruko-2008-see-you-there/ The iPhone is a great piece of equipment - it's not as feature rich as my N95 - but it looks great and has a really sweet user interface. Add in the the iTunes functionality and you've got yourself the real iPod killer. Unless of course you happen to be ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/03/04/o2-ireland-suck/ Popular related post: Want a Free MacBook Air?? Ever wanted to have an oracle of all human knowledge at your fingertips? Well now you can thanks to a young Irish developer, Patrick Collison. Patrick hacked together an offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone over Christmas. I haven't used it as ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/01/23/wikipedia-on-the-iphone/ As you may have guessed from my previous posts, I'm coming near the deployment phase of a project in work that I'm heading up. On monday we'll be having a training session with the users in our pilot release group. The system is looking pretty good so far but there's ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/01/18/working-weekend/ Update: I've set up my own personal slice since this post - running Rails, Nginx, Mongrel and MySQL on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon - so if you're to be signing up for Slicehost I'd be grateful if you'd consider using this Slicehost Referal Link. I took this afternoon to kit out my ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/01/17/up-and-running-on-slicehost/ Over the past week, I have been checking out my hosting options for a new Rails application that I'll be putting into production soon. First I looked at the different hosting options available. From my research there seems to be two main options here - Shared hosting with Apache and ... http://www.irubyist.com/2008/01/15/rails-hosting/