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This is the documented path to my discovery of PostgreSQL 8.3, which I’ve never used before. Now that MySQL’s community is getting hammered to death by Sun, and thanks to all the good things I’ve heard about it over the years (including enhanced performance on multicore systems and greater scalability), I really wanted to install [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: October 18th, 2007
Programming Languages: Ruby
Tools: TextMate, Locomotive, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, Capistrano, Subversion
URL: http://www.parking-friend.com/
This website is the e-commerce platform for JD Services SA; this company offers valet parking services in the area of the airport of Geneva, and customers can buy their services online, paying via PayPal if they wish to.
The system was [...]

So here it is, my first Django project: the gazillionth blog engine on the planet!. As if there weren’t enough, right? :) Actually it was a practical and easy way to learn the Django project, and the result is pretty neat. Feel free to download it, play with it, and give me [...]

If you just installed Leopard and the developer tools, you’ll find out that Ruby on Rails is there, ready to be used. But of course, it’s Rails 1.2.3, which is fine, but it turns out that last Friday Rails went 2.0. Not only that, but RubyGems was updated to 0.9.5 lately too… and you’re dying [...]

I found the following articles about Paris on Rails 2007:

Paris on Rails : “On ne remplace pas le cerveau d’un ‘bon’ développeur !”
Um brasileiro no Paris on Rails (with two photos where you can spot me if you look carefully ;)
On the road….to Javapolis: Paris (with a link to this blog :)

I will add more [...]

(See the morning report, if you haven’t already)
After the lunch break, these were the highlights of Paris on Rails:

Christophe Porteneuve talked about Prototype, the project where he is one of the core developers, and also author of THE book about Prototype! Great stuff: he explained everything there’s to know about JavaScript bindings (and the Prototype [...]

The morning sessions of Paris on Rails can be summarized as follows:

An introduction to Ruby and Rails done by Laurent Juillard from nuxos: interesting for those that never used Ruby before, and a good thing to do given the number of people in the room that are new to the platform in general. Otherwise, quite [...]

It’s 09:07 AM in Paris, and after a wild 1h30 ride from Paris Orly (!) I’m right at the heart of Paris on Rails, second edition! I’ll be posting news during the day about what’s being said, who I meet there, and all kinds of gossip.
Stay tuned!

Almost two years have passed since version 1.0: Rails is now 2.0!
To celebrate, I’ll be at Paris on Rails next Monday; will you be there too?

While watching the Google TechTalk about Django, I came accross this interesting paper highlighting differences between Rails and Django, which might be interesting to many of us in the field.
For those interested, Django is a powerful, MVC framework for creating web applications using the Python programming language. It is very similar in some respects to [...]