Archive for the ‘ruby’ Category

Introduction to Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx: 10 Minute Talk at Austin on Rails

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

I did a quick talk at Austin on Rails last night about my experience using Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx for doing full-text search on CheapTweet. We did a series of short talks last night so this is only a 10 minute overview. Hope some of you will find it helpful. Quick ...

Austin on Rails Talk: Building TweetReach with Sinatra, Tokyo Cabinet and Grackle

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I gave a talk last night (3/24/2009) at Austin on Rails about building a new (yet-to-be-released) application called TweetReach using tools that are somewhat off the beaten path. These included Sinatra, Tokyo Cabinet and my new Twitter API library: Grackle (which I'll talk about in more detail in a future ...

A recent Rubyist goes to the Lone Star Ruby Conference

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

I attended the Lone Star Ruby Conference (LSRC), held here in Austin over the past two days. As this was my first conference on the topic, I thought I would share some observations. First, a vigorous caveat emptor... I'm a former Java guy still relatively new to the Ruby world. ...