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GData on Rails on Google AppEngine

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

There’s a great article by Jeff Scudder on Retrieving Authenticated Google Data Feeds with Google App Engine on the Google App Engine Articles site. Jeff’s tutorial utilizes the GDdata (Google Data) Python client library. The aim of this article is to replicate Jeff’s Tutorial using GData on Rails on Google App Engine running on JRuby on Rails.

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JSON with Ruby on Rails on Google AppEngine

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Getting Started

Here’s a list of what you’ll need to get started with the demo:

  • a Google AppEngine account
  • Ruby 1.8.6
  • Rails 2.3.5
  • Ruby on Rails AppEngine Gem

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Lessons Learned: Planning for a Successful Talk

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

On March 20th, I had the privilege of being a speaker at Unconferenz. I also ended up hosting a couple of other talks throughout the day as well. I presented on the topic of Designing iPhone/iPad Apps and 3rd Party SDKs. The slides are available here.

I learned quite a few lessons as a speaker about giving a better talk.

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On 37 Signals’ REWORK

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

The folks over at 37 Signals recently released their new book called Rework. It’s a business book on how they run their company and business.

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Where I Am and Where I Want to Be

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I recently introduced my new venture called Fresh Blocks. A self-owned business of mine for web design and iPhone Apps. I’ve also recently become interested in documenting an actual process of things. Partly due to both John O’Nolan‘s monthly business reviews and also Aaron Irizarry‘s recent videocast series about Making the Transition.

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