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Notes from Ruby Fools 2008

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Although Ruby Fools 2008 was a great conference, I’ve only found the time write articles about two key notes, the ones of Dave Thomas and Matz. But I...

Ruby Fools: Matz’s keynote

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
It’s not often that Japanese Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby programming language, visits Europe, and his visits to Denmark are...

Ruby Fools: Dave Thomas’ keynote

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
The Ruby Fools 2008 conference is the first large-scale conference in Denmark dedicated to purely to Ruby. The opening keynote was done by Dave Thomas,...

Scoped Access - stay DRY

almost 4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
One of my first hobby projects in Ruby on Rails, and for sure the longest living, is called Dinnerlyzer. It is a small, simple, pink (!) application that...

Impressions from BarCamp Copenhagen

~4 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
It’s the day after the second BarCamp in Copenhagen ever, and the first one that I’ve been lucky enough to participate in. Heck, I even presented at...

RailsConf Europe 2008 write-up

over 3 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
© 2008 Jacob Lauemøller We had meeting in Copenhagen Ruby Brigade the other night with a theme of “Present something interesting from this year’s...

Keeping git repositories on Dreamhost using SSH

over 3 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
“is bemused/awed by how fast svn became a legacy technology in ruby community/developers” Dr. Nic recently said on Twitter. It is true. Greatly aided...

Getting started with JRuby on Rails on OS X

over 3 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I’ve been an independent web developer for over a month now, and I am enjoying every moment it! If the first step in the liberation of programmers is...

Removing Rails validations with metaprogramming

~3 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
I recently found myself facing a metaprogramming challenge. I solved it by combining two terrible ugly hacks, and as such I won’t say I found a solution...

Christmas greetings from a happy boy

~3 years ago by Casper Fabricius on Fingerprints of Casper Fabricius.
Dear friends and clients, business associates and regular blog readers. Thank you for helping me out, thank you for doing business with me, and thank you...