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Amazing battery from Battery Geek - October 15, 2005

The battery in the my Acer Travelmate 800 has been slowly losing it's charge over the past year or so, being down from 5 hours to < 1 hour. Not knowing the wether we would have access to power outlets at Rubyconf I decided to replace it. To my great consternation I discovered that it is quite difficult to get your hands on a replacement battery within a reasonable amount of time. As a result some research in to alternative battery solutions for laptops. Most were very expensive ($500 and..
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End of day one... sort of - October 15, 2005

First day of presentations are done, all in all I must say their is a lot of very cool things going on in the Ruby world. Learned that a couple more people are here, among them: Jamis Buck and a couple of the guys from the Robot co-op. The former are working on a very interesting project called Metaruby where the goal is to write Ruby in Ruby! I have some reservations about the project, mostly will it be fast enough to actually use Would be interested to see any benchmarks they've done so far.
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JRuby - October 14, 2005

Next presentation is starting up, it's on JRuby. Don't know much about it, looks like they want to be the bridge between Java and Ruby for companies that want some of the advantages offered by Ruby without giving up on Java. Interesting, but doesn't really apply to me. Also, looks like a ton of work. Best part of this presentation for me personally, I learned a new word: Rubification.
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To mock or not to mock - October 14, 2005

Very good presentation. But the post presentation discussion is even more interesting, lots of good stuff from David. I sure hope someone is recording this.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101131/2005/10/14.html#a499

Uh oh - October 14, 2005

Radio is having problems updating my RSS feed, hopefully the pings are still getting through... stay tuned. UPDATE: Manual publish worked, thanks Marc. UPDATE: Everything seems to be working ok again, think it was my fault the date on my box got set to August which seems to have caused some problems with Radio.
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Rubyconf 2005 - Day 1 - October 14, 2005

Woohoo, I made it, things look like they are just about to get rolling here. Yup, someone just said 'Welcome to Rubyconf 2005'. More later!
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It has begun! - October 14, 2005

First talk is beginning, Top-to-bottom testing in Rails by Frank Wang.
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open-uri, huffman coding and more - October 14, 2005

The open-uri presentation is turning out to be much more interesting that I had expected. First the library looks incredibly slick, and to boot the author has some very intesting general ideas on API design. He's talking about Huffman coding now, going to have to read up on that. Looks very cool. Lots of emphasis on short code. I also really like the sound of 'reuse user knowledge'. Here is one I really like, a change to the API that results in incompatibility is bad, but not fixing a bad...
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Rubyconf 2005 blogs - October 14, 2005

I've got a pretty good subscription list going for the conference. Besides the obvious: Loud Thinking, Signal vs Noise I've got: Riding Rails, David Rupp, Deirdre Saoirse Moen, James Britt, Jason Wong, Obie, Funworks, Redhanded, Stone Cold Weblog as well as a Feedster search subscription and a Technorati watchlist. If you're in the above list feel free to drop me a comment, or just attending the conference feel free to drop me a comment.
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