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I haven't had the chance to read and review any books from the Pragmatic Programmers series. I decided to change that with the book Ship It! - A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects by ...
-Thomas "Duffbert" Duff
Jared Richardson’s talk titled “Build Teams, not Products,” in particular, was one of the best presentations I’ve ever witnessed. It was just one of those talks where all the points seem tautologic...
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My Ingres Ruby and Rails Driver is Available (Nov 1)
I received email from Deb Woods of Ingres this morning telling me that the Ingres C/Ruby driver and the Rails ActiveRecord adapter I wrote have both been made available.

Here's some more information in a blog posting and here's the actual page.

Hopefully they've made some improvements to my code in the last year or so. This was my first 'real' Ruby and Rails project, so I suspect the code has improved a bit since I sent it to Ingres. :) If memory serves, the code should all be under the GPL (but don't hold me to that... it's been a while.)

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