sv rubyconf (part two)
Part two.
Chat about Apollo being a "machine language"... but Mozilla/XUL(Runner)-as-platform lags far behind Silverlight and Apollo.
ActiveRecord talk, Evan (Rabble) Henshaw-Plath (testingrails.com)
[Insert Scary Dog Picture here.]
Pretty slides, explanation of ActiveRecord concepts.
Many to Many:
- Simple Joiner Table = has_and_belongs_to_many (neglected by rails-core)
- Joiner Model = has_many :through
"I want to thank all the Flickr photos that I used" --
anarchogeek.com+ A number of pretty good questions -- see the video (?) for details.
Conf is getting more interesting again :)
Natural Language Date/Time Parsing with Chronic
[Describes NLP-ish grammar of relative times.]
[Describes detailed implementation of Chronic -- what's the take away? Hmm...]
Todo: time zones, recurring events.
Building an IDE for Ruby, CodeGear from Borland (Mark Howe)
"Why don't we have good tools for Ruby?"
"Is DLTK the answer?"
"Dynamic languages pose some unique problems for tool vendors" M. Howe's blog
"DLTK also adds type inference which allows... to... guess... the type required"
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