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RMU's Secret Sauce: Game Mechanics
July 12 2010
Less than a month ago, I wrapped up the entrance exam for the Ruby Mendicant University online training program. Around that same time, I created a mailing list and IRC channel for accepted students so that they could keep track of announcements and get to know each other. What… read moreRMU's Secret Sauce: Game Mechanics
July 12 2010
Less than a month ago, I wrapped up the entrance exam for the Ruby Mendicant University online training program. Around that same time, I created a mailing list and IRC channel for accepted students so that they could keep track of announcements and get to know each other. What… read moreJuly 10 2010
Written by Andrés Freyría, one of the inaugural RMU participants. You can find the original source documents for these articles at: http://github.com/rmu/insider. These have been some interesting weeks. For starters, we had our first official meeting! The topic was a group review of the different RMU entrance exam submissions. It… read moreStartups: Learn the Difference Between Cowboys and Professionals
July 08 2010
After reading Trotter Cashion's recent post, Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs, I realized that I've been sitting on a good idea for an article for a long time. Trotter is an old friend of mine from back in NYC.rb's early days, and I have a lot of… read moreStartups: Learn the Difference Between Cowboys and Professionals
July 08 2010
After reading Trotter Cashion's recent post, Startups: Don’t Hire Frontend or Backend Webdevs, I realized that I've been sitting on a good idea for an article for a long time. Trotter is an old friend of mine from back in NYC.rb's early days, and I have a lot of… read moreJune 28 2010
Notice this issue, and its tags. It is listed as a blocking defect that needs to be resolved before Prawn 1.0. Here is an example of a helpful comment against this issue: And here is how I responded to it: Permalink | Leave a comment » read moreJune 21 2010
Written by Andrés Freyría, one of the inaugural RMU participants. Andrés has volunteered to do periodic updates about the inner workings of RMU from the student perspective. Ruby Mendicant University has not officially started. And yet, it has. So, for the benefit of those who have recently joined, and for those… read moreJune 21 2010
Written by Andrés Freyría, one of the inaugural RMU participants. Andrés has volunteered to do periodic updates about the inner workings of RMU from the student perspective. Ruby Mendicant University has not officially started. And yet, it has. So, for the benefit of those who have recently joined, and for those… read moreJune 18 2010
There is so much going on with Ruby Mendicant University that it's hard to keep up with it all. But since I feel a key responsibility of mine is to keep folks informed of our progress, I'll do a quick brain dump on some of the interesting happenings so… read moreRuby Mendicant University and the Community
June 17 2010
So far, by all measures, Ruby Mendicant University is on a fast track to success: With the funding drive for initial content creation fulfilled in just 10 days time, and 63 participants already passing the entrance exam with a few days to spare, I'm not worried about the level… read moreQ&A about Ruby Mendicant University
June 09 2010
What follows is a conversation I had with a developer and entrepreneur named Johnny who sparked the initial ideas for Ruby Mendicant University. He was originally looking for personal mentorship, something I've historically done for free as a volunteer effort but these days have to charge for or downright… read moreQ&A about Ruby Mendicant University
June 09 2010
What follows is a conversation I had with a developer and entrepreneur named Johnny who sparked the initial ideas for Ruby Mendicant University. He was originally looking for personal mentorship, something I've historically done for free as a volunteer effort but these days have to charge for or downright… read moreBohConf: The Best Ruby Conference Ever
June 08 2010
I have to admit, I have avoided RailsConf over the years because it didn't seem to be my kind of thing. While I work day to day in Rails, most of my coding is on backend and infrastructure work, so I'm able to get by with only a working… read moreJune 07 2010
An Unexpected Journey When I bought this neat looking lamp from Walmart, I had no idea that it'd help me discover the worst website on the entire internet. But sure enough, my simple search for attractive, low cost lighting ended in horrors that are simply too chilling to go away… read moreJune 07 2010
An Unexpected Journey When I bought this neat looking lamp from Walmart, I had no idea that it'd help me discover the worst website on the entire internet. But sure enough, my simple search for attractive, low cost lighting ended in horrors that are simply too chilling to go away… read moreThoughts on Entrance Exam Selections
June 05 2010
Within two days time, the requests for copies of the RMU entrance exam have skyrocketed to 143 people. This probably isn't close to the number of people who will submit a completed exam, but it's still a bit overwhelming. The challenge now is to come up with a… read moreJune 04 2010
After years of segmenting my writing into various silos, I'm going to attempt to bring all the strands back together again. At first, it seems that posting to topic specific sites has a huge benefit to the reader. If they like one post, there is a good chance that… read moreRuby Mendicant University: What You Need To Know
June 04 2010
Born less than 24 hours ago, my Ruby Mendicant University idea is already more than a third about half of the way to having its initial costs covered. In less than 12 hours, we've had 35 59 people request a copy of the entrance exam. So now that the… read moreJune 04 2010
After years of segmenting my writing into various silos, I'm going to attempt to bring all the strands back together again. At first, it seems that posting to topic specific sites has a huge benefit to the reader. If they like one post, there is a good chance that… read moreApril 23 2010
The Devil's Got A Gun To My Headand he really wants me deadbut just forget it.Burning lanterns cast out the shadowsLight dances in dark cornersThe firefly with clipped wings still fluttersYou can put me in a jarfill it with milk and honeymake me sweet and fat and fullBut the… read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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