Tag Archives | ruby
May 3

Three ways to set up a Ruby stack on Azure

By on May 3, 2013 in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

Microsoft’s announcement of the Windows Azure SDK for Ruby opens up new alternatives and resources for Ruby developers to publish their apps in the cloud. This first version of the SDK (GitHub) supports working with Azure storage & Azure service bus, and deployment in a Linux VM on Azure IaaS. The 3 options covered below [...]

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April 25

Make Web Not War Community Night in Vancouver was a blast

By on April 25, 2012 in Events

Last week, we had the Make Web Not War Community Night in Vancouver, and I must say that it was amazing. Oh, it’s not just me, I got this feedback from a lot of attendees. We had the chance to learn and hear from amazing speakers, like Glenn Hilton that shared his experience on how [...]

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April 12

Web Standards, security & Azure runtimes

By on April 12, 2012 in Geek Speak

As we always try to find some great contents for you, I made another summary of great blog posts I found on the Web. This time, it’s all about Web standards and cloud computing. Web Standards I think I don’t have to tell you again: I am a big fan of Web Standards. Even if [...]

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April 2

PHP in the cloud

By on April 2, 2012 in Geek Speak

You probably know that we have a cloud computing solution at Microsoft named Windows Azure. You may think that because it’s a Microsoft service it’s only about ASP.NET? The answer is no! You can use many technology in our cloud solution, like Java, Python, ASP.NET, Ruby, Node.js and PHP. When we talked about PHP on [...]

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March 2

Confoo 2012 – Ruby as She is Spoke

By on March 2, 2012 in Events

One of the themes of Confoo 2012 was programmers stepping outside of their comfort zone and being exposed to unfamiliar coding languages. My main interest being Javascript and PHP, I was really pleased to learn something new, something called Ruby on Rails. The very charismatic and funny Joey DeVilla hosted the session Ruby as She is [...]

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July 25

ConFoo 2012: Call for Papers is Now Open!

By on July 25, 2011 in Uncategorized

Confoo is looking for the best speakers willing to share their skills and experience with developers and managers. This year, Confoo is dedicated to software development, project management and best practices. The technical part covers different aspects of Web development such as: PHP, Python, Ruby, .Net, Java, security, content management systems, frameworks, databases, system administration, [...]

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June 8

Fun & Symfony: Interview with Jonathan Wage

By on June 8, 2011 in Community Rock Stars

Meet Jonathan Wage (@jwage), an Open Source developer who contributes to the Doctrine, Symfony, and Sympal projects, is a senior developer for OpenSky, and who created SociallyNotable.com. We recently got to ask Jonathan some questions about how he got started in Open Source development, why he’s passionate about it, and where he sees Open Source technology heading. Here’s what he had to say.

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March 18

Inspirational Quotes About Computer Programming

By on March 18, 2011 in Featured

Spending hours upon hours designing, writing, testing and debugging source code whilst toughening those finger calluses- we wanted to offer all you hard working programmers, who make the technology we use today possible, some words of wisdom and inspiration from some of the great programmers of all time.

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