http://chris.commonboard.org Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:17:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Book "Deploying Rails Applications" gives an good overview and tutorials on the infrastructure needed for a successfull web project. The central tool is the domain specific language for deployment capistrano which is inspired by rake, written in Ruby by Jamis Buck and integrated with the Ruby on Rails framework. I ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/09/04/deploying-web-applications-with-capistrano/ Enjoy running around on O'Reilly Radar as "the last guy" in this browser game... Like in real life: Make the crowd follow you && avoid the monsters && Have a lot of fun! http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/09/02/last-guy-running-on-oreilly-radar/ The Song "Code Monkey" hit the geek charts in 2006, has a nice wikipedia entry and really rocks. The New York Time article Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog has all the details. Even writer & performer Jonathan Coulton seems to like that one of the many fan videos. Enjoy this ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/19/code-monkey-or-sex-drugs-and-updating-your-blog/ Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Minix OS) & Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) will do Keynotes at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2008 http://www.froscon.de 23.- 24.08.2008 in Bonn, Germany. Talks of the remarkable conference schedule will be streamed by linux-magazin.de. phpVikinger Derick Rethans will talk on 7 (or more) PHP Myths defused. Press Announcement http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/14/froscon-2008-open-source-conference/ This Linux Netbook looks amazing! Models "Ideapads S9" and "S10" cost about 320-360 EUR in .de From Oktober in shops 1GB RAM memory 160 GByte-Harddisk or 4 GByte SSD (Solid State Drive) Display is 1024 wide Express Card Slot Linux (Distro to be announced) or WinXP Full News text in Linux Magazine Germany This is the product picture you ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/05/beauty-linux-netbook-by-lenovo/ I found a nice text called The Researcher's Bible by Alan Bundy (not Al Bundy for sure). He wrote this document about reading & writing skills, finding a decent topic, common pitfalls. This is a shorter one How to write an Informatics Paper. Alan Bundy seems to know what he is talking ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/04/how-to-write-a-thesis-or-technical-paper/ Interview with Zend about current "consolidation" and plans by Björn Schotte Björn Schotte of php-magazine talked with Jürgen Langner, Global Marketing Director at Zend Technologies about recent sacked people in R&D and the current Zend roadmap. Jürgen Langner said, that I is a goal of Zend to stand on own feet without ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/08/01/interview-with-zend/ Those men hit it: Aussies strike it rich with $15m Google buyout Here is a little serenade for the Omnisio guys, 2 weeks old but still fair enough... http://www.omnisio.com/liquid/dancing-liquid Congratulations! http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/07/31/cheeeeers-to-omnisio/ Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy created an amazing Video of OSCON 2008 asking Speakers to sum up their point in 30s. Thats fast forward, guys, watch this Oscon in 37 minutes Freak show! The viddler.com video even has an index of speakers: Keynoters Tim O'Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/07/30/oscon-in-37-minutes/ Some guys from the HdM Stuttgart did a nice TV documentation on "the" Web 2.0: barcamping Web 2.0 Expo Berlin Interviews (partially english) with Alpha Geek Tim O'Reilly Enterpreneur Peter Ambrozy Blogger Oliver Gassner and many many more web 2.0 "aware" people and you won't believe it: economic background The film was sponsored by dmc, Cisco & Otto, broadcasted ... http://chris.commonboard.org/2008/07/30/web-20-tv-show-tomorrow/