Timothy Fisher
Author of the Java Phrasebook and the Ruby on Rails Bible
Web Dev, Architecture, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Technology Author, emerging tech, Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
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HUGE: Google Set to Make Gmail Social With Status Update Features http://mashable.com/2010/02/08/gmail-social/ via @mashable
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RT @a2rb Rails3 Hack Night TONIGHT @ 7pm in 1670CSE: http://bit.ly/cqLvwc Map: http://bit.ly/a2rbmap
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Great book for Ruby developers I'm currently reading... "Refactoring: Ruby Edition".. Also recommend "Refactoring" for non-rubyists...
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Unit tests are not just for QA... Writing unit tests WILL improve the design of your code.. many developers don't realize that...
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Found a great site for examples of Rails integration with Facebook Connect... http://facebooker.pjkh.com/
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RT @mashable Amazon Buys Touchscreen Company for Its Kindle Division [REPORT] - http://bit.ly/cXrh50 (this is interesting)
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JSMag looks like it has some good content but I'm wondering if people are willing to pay for this content??? http://www.jsmag.com/latest
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"Exploring Rails 3" a free online conference from O'Reilly coming in February. http://en.oreilly.com/railswinter10
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thinking it would be nice to have something like a2geeks for the Detroit Tech community... www.a2geeks.org
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Checking out Browsera, an automated cross-browser compatibility checker... looks pretty cool and useful. http://www.browsera.com/
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Attending the "Why Scala?" presentation tonight at the Detroit JUG at Epize HQ in Pleasant Ridge... www.detroitjug.org
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RT @Morleybros I just heard of a large global company that is abandoning its Microsoft Sharepoint strategy for Liferay #sharepoint #liferay
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Based on the # of recruiters I get contacting me daily it seems to me that the IT economy is starting to rebound.
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The Cleveland Tech Xchange event will be sometime in February, I'll post a firm date when I have one. I'll be presenting on OpenSocial.
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I've been invited to give my OpenSocial prsntation at an upcoming tech xchange event in Cleveland, sponsored by Cleveland Compuware branch
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We are hiring developers at Compuware Covisint... Let me know if you are looking for a position..
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checking out Retrospective, a Rails based project management app... http://retrospectiva.org/overview
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Is anyone using Gitorious for an internal GitHub-like version control system in a large or medium company???
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Is there something like GitHub available as an open source project that can provide GitHub-like functionality?
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The future of portals... Gadget-based rather than JSR168 portlets... http://www.slideshare.net/tyrell/shindig-apachecon-asia-09-tyrell
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RT @superchris #10yearsago I was working on a project with 100s of EJBs and proud of it.
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Maven for JRuby and Gems for Java???... http://bit.ly/8cplNG
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Most code written in an enterprise environment is much more complex than it should be..
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50 Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation... http://bit.ly/8z22PX
