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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.
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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 ...
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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. ...
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