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Tue Aug 19 15:18:43 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount or this dreamhost promo code to get extra space and $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group. Insurance quotes florists

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

Home Page

Fri Aug 15 14:29:58 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

Home Page

Thu Aug 07 16:25:44 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

schedule app for Barcamp

Mon Aug 04 17:07:44 UTC 2008

Check out our project on Ruby Forge! And visit the ConfCalendar web site!

Subscribe via email to the BarCamp Mailing List with a Google groups account.

Name Ideas

The winner Is:

ConfCalendar (Jeff has secured the .com, .net, and .org) We may use the .org as the primary TLD and redirect the .com to the .org. We might want to use the .net as the developer/secret-project-work site?

Runners up:

Doeet.com (Jim already has it registered)
ConfCal.org
BarTime
CampCounselr

Other BarCamp Scheduler Names

General App Ideas

User-centric events
barcamp app user profiles
Tagging
Facilitators own sessions
Facebook-type community pages
Tracking (Event, Speaker, Friend, Topic)
Single-screen UI - similar to Drupal example Blake showed us last week

CMS
- CMS Options
  - Build our own RoR CMS
  - Build off of Mephisto CMS (RoR)
  - Build on Drupal (and build our own Drupal theme though it is PHP-based)
- Build and test our own front-end code YUI
- Use an existing theme to save time?
- Group discussion about using http://drupal.org as a CMS

Use of YUI
- Yahoo!UI Grids are bullet-proof
- YUI licensing may create problem (Nate here from the YUI Team. The YUI license is the BSD license, which, though I’m not a lawyer, is one of the most open licenses around. You can use YUI for anything, license the resulting work in any way… the only real requirement is that you attribute the YUI code as specified. Anyways, drop me a note at nate.koechley.com/contact if you have any questions.)
- YUI duplicates the prototype.js library, may need to relink YUI call to standard prototype.js under the public/stylesheets dir

Wiki
- Support (external use by users of the app)
- Development (internal use by developers, duh)
- Platforms

Blog for external use … create buzz for this new app)?
- Do we need one?
- Do we care at this point?
- What blog app do we use?

No deadline

Possible IA

(structure only, link names TBD)

Public Site
- appsitename.com
- appsitename.com/about_the_project
- appsitename.com/features_and_requirements
- appsitename.com/blog/
- appsitename.com/forum

App Site
- appsitename.com/sign_up_for_account
- appsitename.com/event_schedueler_app

Development Site
- dev.appsitename.com/wiki
- appsitename.com/forum
- dev.appsitename.com/event_scheduelr_app

Example IA for BarCamp Denver
- www.confcalendar.com (users chose events to attend)
- denver.confcalendar.com (users manage sessions w/n this event)
- www.confcalendar.com/denver (poss. IA of above example)

General Screen Inventory

Public Site
- Get the App (free version and not-free version)
- About this project (General info, app info, contributors, sponsors, investor info)
- Access to App (Sign-up/Log-In/Log-Out)
- Wiki (serving an app-support function)
- My Account (Profile/Settings/Manage My Events)
- “I’m going to this event” (see Track below)

App “Site”
- Event Search
- Event View (Year/Month/Day)
- Event Detail (5w’s)
- Manage Event (Add/Modify/Delete)
- Manage Topic or Track (Add/Modify/Delete)
- Track (Event, Speaker, Friend, Topic)

Oshuma

Mon Aug 04 16:54:09 UTC 2008

Oshuma

Dale Campbell

dale(at)save-state.net

http://corrupt.save-state.net/

captcha test page

Tue Jul 29 17:09:19 UTC 2008

Test the BrainBuster captcha here!

Brainbuster simple logic captcha plugin for Rails. Yes, it could be defeated with scripting, but so can many image captchas. We are just looking to eliminate the vast majority of spam that comes from being an easy target.

Nifty, it apparently accepts the result of math logic as words. However, this can be automated quite easily by using Google most often than not. Example 2 Excellent, because if there’s one way humans are superior to computers it’s logic! ;)

It does seem to work for me. Don’t forget to edit if you want to use the test! jkljk;l What captcha are you using? Is it the validates_captcha plugin? — No, its BrainBuster.

Once I have provided the captcha answer, I am no longer asked for another one the next time I want to post. Nice feature or bug? I assume you set some flag in the session, but that will require user to have enabled cookies, right? — Its a feature – it saves it in the cookie. You can disable that, of course.

Shiney! I wonder how long before natural language processors will be able to parse and crack things like this. More or less time than neural network image processing.. (which is already done to a small extent by spammers, from what I understand).

Interesting ….

Interesante ….

No wonder!

member profiles

Tue Jul 29 14:59:35 UTC 2008

Please add your profile to the list. You could include a bio, links to your blog, whatever. A description of your day job and what you are using Ruby for would be great, too.

Rob Sanheim – I’m the admin of the wiki and working full time with Rails. I like cheese.
Thomas Yates – I’m just a local Madison J2EE guy that is sick of the UN NEEDED complexity that I am forced to grapple with every day in the J2EE space. I am building a fully buzzword compliant Web 2.0 app (using RoR) at home in my spare time. (tho, truth be told, all the heavy lifting is done in Perl)
Chris Van Vlack – Local Madison J2EE guy as well. Living it up, while coding it down. I like to eat pudding.
Eric Knapp I’m one of the founders of the group and I arrange the meetings at the downtown MATC campus.
Steve Peters – I’m a programmer who’s worked on almost everything from Java to C. I first started looking playing with Ruby in about 2001, but only off and on. In two words: REXML rocks! I hope that someday the stars will align and I’ll actually make it to a meeting. In my copious free time, I’m also a core developer for the Perl programming language.
Nathan Sutton – I’m a graduate of MATC (Web Programming and Networking) and currently an intern doing rails at the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Angel Dobbs-Sciortino I am a software engineer with most of my experience in java and php, with some experience in ruby on rails. I am working on a home inventory program right now using RoR.

Dave Hoefler – RoR programmer for Punchstock/Getty Images.

Bryan Nelson – Programming primarily in Ruby/Rails and PHP lately. Plan to use my member page mostly to just collect tips & tricks I find that will be useful (probably just to me).

Handy Patriawan – I am currently working in a local software company and also learning RoR. RoR has given me a new hope of learning web programming.

Jeff Sutherland – I am a web development consultant who focuses mostly on online learning and UI development. I do Java, .Net (gags as he writes that), JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, XHTML, and anything else that makes an online course or UI work. I have done Rails professionally, and I loved every minute of it.

Gene Zadzilka – I’m the director of software development at Sway. Lots of software dev experience, and excited enough about the practical benefits of RoR to make it the technology of choice for the company. Woot!

Jon Larkowski – I’m a Rails newbie, hoping to get away from my C#/ASP.NET day job.

Ryan Fowler – I’m an sw engineer at Berbee. Over the years, I’ve fought w/ J2EE and PHP enough to appreciate Rails. Here’s to getting to work on it for real.

Ryan Smith – I’m a web designer with a love for OS X, open-source projects, web-standards, accessibility, geocaching, and long walks on the beach. I’d like to help my fellow developers by designing and building clever CSS-driven front-end user experiences for RoR, PHP, and eCommerce web apps.

Jim Remsik – Developer experienced in dealing with projects post deployment most commonly in Microsoft technologies, some python experience.

John Buol – I learned about RoR after giving up on OpenACS (powerful, complex, and obscure) and finding that is where several high-level oACS developers left for. Seeing so much interest that a local user group dedicated to RoR formed in Madison sealed my decision to move.

Ben Seigel – Madison, WI web designer w/ColdFusion programming background, learning Rails.

blake hall – Drupal developer playing around with rails and ruby in my spare time.

Jon Kinney – Madison, WI web developer focused on standards compliance, cross browser compatibility, and TDD with ruby on rails using OS X and textmate!

Abraham Williams – Mashup Ambassador!

Add your bio here …

BrainBuster

Wed Jul 23 03:29:27 UTC 2008

A logic captcha plugin for Rails.

Full home page and details here

Want to play around? Edit this captcha test page to try it out – you probably need to clear your session cookies if you have already edited a page.

Home Page

Mon Jul 14 21:05:04 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

captcha test page

Sun Jul 13 10:31:12 UTC 2008

Test the BrainBuster captcha here!

It does seem to work for me. Don’t forget to edit if you want to use the test! jkljk;l What captcha are you using? Is it the validates_captcha plugin? — No, its BrainBuster.

Shiney! I wonder how long before natural language processors will be able to parse and crack things like this. More or less time than neural network image processing.. (which is already done to a small extent by spammers, from what I understand).

Interesting ….

Interesante ….

Home Page

Fri Jun 13 21:34:06 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

Home Page

Sun May 18 08:03:40 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney. You may consider Dreamhost, in case shared hosting work for you (which is usually unlikely). If that is the case, you can use Dreamhost promo to get $50 discount.

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

Code and Coffee

Thu May 08 06:13:18 UTC 2008

“Code and Coffee’s” are informal meetings to code, chat, collaborate, or do whatever. We don’t have any set schedule or presentations for these.

See the schedule for future events, or subscribe to the event calendar.

We often go to Escape Java Joint, on Willy St, or Electric Earth on W. Washington for these. If you have a favorite coffee shop you’d like to try please suggest it.

Google Maps to Escape Coffee

Google Maps to Electric Earth

Handy Patriawan

Mon May 05 02:29:11 UTC 2008

event calendar

Mon Apr 07 23:21:28 UTC 2008

Our event calendar is hosted at Google calendar. We’ll have upcoming code n’ coffee’s, upcoming meetings, and other general Ruby/Rails events on it.

You can subscribe to it in a variety of ways:

Subscribe via ical

an http link

a webcal link

If you use Google Calendar

If you use Google Calendar, you should be able to add it with this link

For a Regular Feed Reader

And finally, there is an Atom feed that should work in pretty much any newsreader.

Home Page

Wed Mar 12 20:06:40 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...I emailed Dave (the owner or this VPS company) to hook up our madison rails community. He said to share the coupon code so here you go! – Jon Kinney

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

Jon

Wed Mar 12 19:38:33 UTC 2008

Professional web developer for Madison based IT firm Inacom Information Systems.

I also do side work and have a rails site that I’m working on at J2Flydesign.com

Home Page

Wed Mar 12 19:30:31 UTC 2008

Welcome to MadRails!

The Madison Ruby on Rails user group

We are a usergroup in Madison, Wisconsin, focused on the web application framework Ruby on Rails. Although we call ourself a “Rails” group, we welcome meetings on pure Ruby topics.

News

Need a VPS for only $10 a month? Head over to SilverRack and use coupon code “madisonrails” when signing up to get $10 back per month on a 256mb or higher plan for a total monthly cost of only $10! Did I mention you can get a 256mb slice for only $10 a month! (slightly excited)...

We are starting work on a schedule app for Barcamp
Check the schedule or subscribe to the GCal event calendar for all upcoming events.

Get Involved!

Subscribe to the mailing list
View the schedule
Come to an informal Code and Coffee session
Do a lightning talk
Contribute ideas for future meetings
Watch upcoming events with the event calendar
Take out a book from our user group library
Join the IRC channel

Lists, Resources, Helpful Stuff

Meta and Miscellaneous

Contact the Organizers if you’d like to speak at a meeting, would like to sponsor meetings, or if you just have general questions.

Please add a little bio and links to your blog/site/whatever on the member profiles page.

If you are in the Milwaukee area, make sure to check out the Milwaukee Ruby users group.

Interested in BrainBuster, the logic catpcha you see when you edit a page here?

member profiles

Wed Mar 12 18:45:05 UTC 2008

Please add your profile to the list. You could include a bio, links to your blog, whatever. A description of your day job and what you are using Ruby for would be great, too.

Rob Sanheim – I’m the admin of the wiki and working full time with Rails. I like cheese.
Thomas Yates – I’m just a local Madison J2EE guy that is sick of the UN NEEDED complexity that I am forced to grapple with every day in the J2EE space. I am building a fully buzzword compliant Web 2.0 app (using RoR) at home in my spare time. (tho, truth be told, all the heavy lifting is done in Perl)
Chris Van Vlack – Local Madison J2EE guy as well. Living it up, while coding it down. I like to eat pudding.
Eric Knapp I’m one of the founders of the group and I arrange the meetings at the downtown MATC campus.
Steve Peters – I’m a programmer who’s worked on almost everything from Java to C. I first started looking playing with Ruby in about 2001, but only off and on. In two words: REXML rocks! I hope that someday the stars will align and I’ll actually make it to a meeting. In my copious free time, I’m also a core developer for the Perl programming language.
Nathan Sutton – I’m a graduate of MATC (Web Programming and Networking) and currently an intern doing rails at the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Angel Dobbs-Sciortino I am a software engineer with most of my experience in java and php, with some experience in ruby on rails. I am working on a home inventory program right now using RoR.

Dave Hoefler – RoR programmer for Punchstock/Getty Images.

Bryan Nelson – Programming primarily in Ruby/Rails and PHP lately. Plan to use my member page mostly to just collect tips & tricks I find that will be useful (probably just to me).

Handy Patriawan – I am currently working in a local software company and also learning RoR. RoR has given me a new hope of learning web programming.

Jeff Sutherland – I am a web development consultant who focuses mostly on online learning and UI development. I do Java, .Net (gags as he writes that), JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, XHTML, and anything else that makes an online course or UI work. I have done Rails professionally, and I loved every minute of it.

Gene Zadzilka – I’m the director of software development at Sway. Lots of software dev experience, and excited enough about the practical benefits of RoR to make it the technology of choice for the company. Woot!

Jon Larkowski – I’m a Rails newbie, hoping to get away from my C#/ASP.NET day job.

Ryan Fowler – I’m an sw engineer at Berbee. Over the years, I’ve fought w/ J2EE and PHP enough to appreciate Rails. Here’s to getting to work on it for real.

Ryan Smith – I’m a web designer with a love for OS X, open-source projects, web-standards, accessibility, geocaching, and long walks on the beach. I’d like to help my fellow developers by designing and building clever CSS-driven front-end user experiences for RoR, PHP, and eCommerce web apps.

Jim Remsik – Developer experienced in dealing with projects post deployment most commonly in Microsoft technologies, some python experience.

John Buol – I learned about RoR after giving up on OpenACS (powerful, complex, and obscure) and finding that is where several high-level oACS developers left for. Seeing so much interest that a local user group dedicated to RoR formed in Madison sealed my decision to move.

Ben Seigel – Madison, WI web designer w/ColdFusion programming background, learning Rails.

blake hall – Drupal developer playing around with rails and ruby in my spare time.

Jon Kinney – Madison, WI web developer focused on standards compliance, cross browser compatibility, and TDD with ruby on rails using OS X and textmate!

Add your bio here …

Madison Coworking

Sun Mar 09 20:01:16 UTC 2008

From Angel Dobbs-Sciortino:

I am currently working on setting up a permanent office space for computer programmers, web designers, graphic designers, etc that are independent contractors and would like a shared space to work alongside others. The office space I’m looking at is on the near east side, and I would like to get this going within the next month.

The office has a restroom, and it will also have a refrigerator and a microwave. There is no kitchen, but if I have enough interest (at least 13 people), I will be able to rent the adjoining room which can have a small kitchen.

There will be fast internet (3-6 Mbps downstream) and a printer/scanner/copier. The space would cost each person about $250/month to use.

If anyone is interested or knows someone that would be interested, let me know. You can contact me at “coworking (at) angeliccomputing dot com”.

See the google groups thread for more details.

What is coworking? From the Coworking site: Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents.

captcha test page

Tue Feb 26 06:48:14 UTC 2008

Test the BrainBuster captcha here!

It does seem to work for me. Don’t forget to edit if you want to use the test! jkljk;l What captcha are you using? Is it the validates_captcha plugin? — No, its BrainBuster.

Shiney! I wonder how long before natural language processors will be able to parse and crack things like this. More or less time than neural network image processing.. (which is already done to a small extent by spammers, from what I understand).

Interesting ….

Interesante ….

BrainBuster

Tue Feb 26 06:47:34 UTC 2008

A logic captcha plugin for Rails.

Full home page and details here

Want to play around? Edit this captcha test page to try it out – you probably need to clear your session cookies if you have already edited a page.

captcha test page

Tue Feb 26 00:55:27 UTC 2008

Test the BrainBuster captcha here!

Brainbuster simple logic captcha plugin for Rails. Yes, it could be defeated with scripting, but so can many image captchas. We are just looking to eliminate th Nifty, it apparently accepts the result of math logic as words. However, this can be automated quite easily by using Google most often than not. Example 2 Excellent, because if there’s one way humans are superior to computers it’s logic! ;)

It does seem to work for me. Don’t forget to edit if you want to use the test! jkljk;l What captcha are you using? Is it the validates_captcha plugin? — No, its BrainBuster.

Shiney! I wonder how long before natural language processors will be able to parse and crack things like this. More or less time than neural network image processing.. (which is already done to a small extent by spammers, from what I understand).

Interesting ….

Interesante ….k

Yahoo!UI

Fri Feb 22 18:07:00 UTC 2008

lklkj

A Decent Text Editor

Fri Feb 22 13:59:17 UTC 2008

no hay