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Keeping the tradition of getting real and the beta books by the Pragmatic Programmers, I have decided to host a beta version of my upcoming Ruby On Rails Training in Zurich workshop. The plan is to host a beta version of the training on 31.1 and 1.2.2006 in Geneva, just before the Lift06 conference. Here’s the deal: I’ll be hosting a “beta-workshop” of the upcoming Ruby On Rails seminar. In two days, participants will learn how to develop web-application in Ruby On Rails (bring your own Laptop) and work in an agile fashion with elements of Extreme Programming. The beta workshop won’t be quite finished in terms of structure and presentation, and will have beta documentation. All the major pieces of things to learn will be in place though, and the schedule will be roughly the same as the finished workshop/training taking place 27.-28.2.2006 in Zurich. Language is english. ...

After having worked with RubyOnRails for over a year, with several successful projects done or in progress, I’m happy to announce the first Ruby On Rails Training in Zurich (german). This two day workshop in Zurich covers the basics of Rails development with the participants building a complete web application from scratch. They will use techniques from Extreme Programming (XP) so that the participants get the most practical approach to learning and using the things learnt. ...

UPDATE: I had to disable comments, because I was getting spammed with hundreds of “cool site” messages. Feel free to contact me in any other way. Working with RubyOnRails is a really wonderful way of developing applications. The plugin system allows extensions without modifying the core of rails. Here’s my second plugin: WherePlugin It’s based on some code by Ezra Zygmuntovic extended by me, further extended by Ezra and packaged as a plugin. ...

Meine Tochter bastelt fur ihr Leben gerne. Fur jedes erdenkliche Alt-Material findet sie Verwendung, denn die Sachen sind “brauchsam”. Und beim Skifahren ist sie sehr “getrauig”. Und bald wird ihr die Schule diese wunderbaren Wortkreationen austreiben. Technorati Tags: kinder, sprache

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Time for looking back at the year that was, and the year that’s coming, the good and the bad. Mezzoblue tipped me of, Ben Poole paved the way. Apple 2005 is the year I made the switch. I’m using a 15" PowerBook for nearly all my work now. This Laptop is the single best investment I ever made in IT technology. Everything from the beautiful design, the quietness, the tactile feel, speed, display and of course OS X make me happy. In my wake, another 5 or 6 people have switched to Apple and all of them (including my mother, who got a Mac Mini for X-Mas) are happy with it. Personally, I’m hoping for an Intel based Apple Laptop next year, that allow me to run Lotus Notes through something like Darwine or some secret Apple Technology. Then I could drop my old PC Laptop for good. ...