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Travel Plans

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’ve got my itinerary planned out for Railsconf. I’ll also be hitting up a couple other west coast cities before landing in Portland. First...

Notes from MIT Startup Bootcamp

over 2 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Yesterday (October 12th) I attended MIT’s Startup Bootcamp. As someone who is seriously thinking about taking some time off from his consulting lifestyle...

I'm Back

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
I’m back on the east coast after a 1.5 week west coast mini-tour, culminating with Railsconf information overload and a couple of great parties. I...

Radiant Scoped Multi Update

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Blog updates have been pretty infrequent lately. As have my OSS contributions. Sorry! I haven’t had an awful lot of spare. Between client work and...

Clone Pastie with Sinatra & DataMapper 0.9

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Waaaay back in November I wrote a DataMapper and Sinatra tutorial. DM was still pretty immature at the time, and it quickly became outdated. I promised...

Passenger <3 Sinatra

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
A couple people have asked me how I’m hosting the Sinatra-based pastie service we wrote in yesterday’s revised tutorial. The previous version...

Sidebar Login Box Recipe (restful_auth)

over 4 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
One of the nice features of Rick Olson’s excellent restful_authentication plugin is the store_location facility. If you set up a :login_required before...

NH Merb

over 3 years ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
This Tuesday (July 15th), NH Ruby morphs into NH Merb for the night! Guest speaker Jeremy Durham is coming up from Boston to give a talk about his journey...

Rails Rumble 2010

over 1 year ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
This is the fourth year I’ve helped organize the Rails Rumble innovation competition and the entries this year are definitely the best I’ve...

Announcing RubyDoc.info

over 1 year ago by Nick Plante aka nap on zerosum dirt(nap) - Home.
Last year we launched a little web service called rdoc.info for hosting public docs for Ruby libraries. It wasn’t a completely new idea, but there...