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Am 3.11 findet in Frankfurt die rails-konferenz.de statt. Ich werde dort sein und einen Vortrag uber “Extreme Testing - oder wie ich lernte aufzuhoren mich zu sorgen und Änderungen zu lieben” halten in dem ich aufzeige, dass automatisches Testen weit mehr ist, als nur ab und zu ein die UnitTests ablaufen zu lassen. Ich wurde mich freuen, einige von euch dort zu sehen. Technorati Tags: conference, rails-konferenz.de, rails

Maybe I’m going to go to the german Rails conference in Frankfurt in the beginning of November. I just looked at the prices for the flight from Zurich to Frankfurt and saw theses quotes for the return flight: The world is coming to an end… Technorati Tags: conference, flying, rails, swiss

Sounds to good to be true - well it is in a way. But it ain’t that bad… Prompted by Magnatune - freie Online Musik by Martin Roll I (re)discovered Magnatune, a online music store that sells music with a creative commons license. I promptly bought the album Big Dipper that Martin recommended. If you like a copy of it, leave a comment here - the first two commenters will received the code to download the album (as per their generous license agreement). ...

I have started a new Rails project for a colleague of mine. Time to live on the (rails)edge again for this project. As usual, it’s fun to get into the freshly developed mode again, after having finished two large Rails projects. The feeling of building something out of nothing is great. And of course I’m taking the opportunity to update my Rails Reference to Rails 1.2 Is there anything in particular you’d like to see covered in the next release of the reference? Let me know! ...

Satish Talim from the Pune Ruby User Group conducted an email interview with me about Ruby. I have the honour of being in company with people like Bruce Tate, James Edward Grey II and other true gurus. You can read it here Technorati Tags: interview, india, ruby, rubyonrails

UPDATE: I have disabled comments for this post, because I’m getting spammed with hundreds of messages on exactly this post. Feel free to comment somewhere else :-) Ruby (and Ruby on Rails) are slowly picking up steam in Zurich (and Switzerland) so it seems to be a good time to start a Ruby user group. Anyone that want’s to start this with me is invited on Thursday, 28.9.2006 in the evening to meet, eat, drink and chat about Ruby (and Rails). ...