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Free Rails Book at Leanpub + RailsFTW update

A month and a half to go to build up my street cred for RubyConf PH…

Seriously, though, I’ve spent the past month working on stuff related to my upcoming talk, namely, about teaching Rails. At the top of the list was converting and formatting my old outdated Rails 3.0 book to Leanpub‘s markdown dialect.

Long story short, the book is now available there for online viewing. I’ve also gone the Humble Bundle-esque “Pay-what-you-want” for e-books scheme for people interested in giving me money to support my other writing endeavors.

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In other news, I’ve finally updated RailsFTW to Rails 4.0.2 and Ruby 2.0 (2.1 is still unstable for Windows). Head over to the site and grab it while it’s hot.

September Meetup Videos and RailsFTW 0.11

Just a couple of quick Ruby related updates.

Last Thursday we held our September meetup at the Friendster office in Ayala. Here are the videos of the event:

More pictures are posted at the Facebook group.

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Rails FTW

In other news, I got around to updating RailsFTW to Rails 3.2.8, putting the installer ahead of RailsInstaller by a bunch of mini-releases. (LOL)

Updated installer can be found on the RailsFTW site.

Pangkaraniwang Developer – matuto ng Computer Science at Programming

“Turuan ang sinumang Pilipino na gustong matuto ng Programming o Computer Science.”

If there’s a tagline for my current project, Pangkaraniwang Developer, that would be it.

No need for a lengthy blog post, just head over to the About page and learn why I’m doing this.

Donations are always welcome. LOL

RailsFTW, now twice as fast!

Rails FTW

My Game Jam post is waaay overdue but some stuff happened this week (impromptu upgrade, server migration) so I’ll only get around to post about it probably later today.

Anyway, this post is just about the new version up over at RailsFTW. This experimental build is based on TCS’s patched Ruby build which boasted a ~200% increase in performance.

See it for yourself: