So I managed to secure a place to HabariCon '08. Not quite sure what to expect, but being able to meet other people in real life and talk about habari & related things all day will be quite cool.
Expect a round-up post of the 'con tonight!
So I'm at BarCamp Manchester for the day. Its great meeting people I already know, and meeting new ones; most impressed by Peter's ruby shoes.. they glitter!
So heres a little list of links for the day:
And now an example of how I write my ruby code and get it down to the bare, readable, minimum code needed. This is real life code taken from a website I'm building, but I've changed the objects to a blog post because more people will relate to that easier.
The show object has an id passed in using the params Hash, I want to check if that post exists in the database first. If it does, then render the page, and if it doesn't return a 404 error page.
So I start off by writing this in longhand ruby, I'm using the merb framework with DataMapper ORM by the way....
More...So mother (who can't program) just posed me the question
Why is Ruby your favourite programming language?
Me being a show off jumped straight into TextMate and banged out some code in real time to show her. First up, a quick little one-liner of Ruby code to output a String:...
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