Twin Cities Code Camp 2006
Today I'm attending the Twin Cities Code Camp, a free conference with sessions on .NET, testing, Ajax, and web services. Here are summaries of the morning sessions I attended.
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I attended RailsConf in Baltimore, MD this year. It was especially exciting as we had just relocated to Baltimore 2 days earlier after a long drive from Minneapolis. Apart from the great sessions, I...
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This website runs on an open source blogging application I developed called Rehash. The application has always been deployed on a virtual private server but I wanted to try moving it to Heroku.
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In preparation for the Node Knockout competition, I decided to look at two frameworks Geddy and Express.
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