Creating Passionate Users has an interesting post titled Conversational writing kicks formal writing's ass. Sounds about right to me. Yesterday I mentioned my initial thoughts about the book Agile Web Development with Rails. I stated simply that I liked the writing style. I think it's because so far this book seems to have that conversational style that Kathy Sierra was talking about.
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September 06, 2005
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Talks
- Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes
Talk I gave at RubyConf 2009 on building large scale applications with RESTful services and AMQP messaging. - Machine Learning Techniques for the Semantic Web
A short talk on machine learning I gave at the NYC Semantic Web meetup. - Collective Intelligence
Talk at the 2008 Gotham Ruby Conference on recommendation systems. - Building Web Service Clients with ActiveModel
Goruco 2010 about ActiveModel and Web Service Client Libraries.
Linkage
- My Github
- Feedzirra
My Ruby library for parsing and fetching feeds at blinding speed. - SAX Machine
My Ruby library exposes a DSL for building Nokogiri backed SAX parsers. - Typhoeus
My Ruby library for running HTTP requests quickly, easily, and in parallel. - NYC Machine Learning Meetup
The meetup I organize. Talks from researchers and practitioners on machine learning and related technologies and techniques. - Errplane for exception notifications, log aggregation, metrics, and alerts.
My startup! We're focused on making exception notification, monitoring, alerting, and related DevOps fast, easy and reliable.
Recent Posts
- Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink: The Myth and Truth of the NYC engineer shortage
- Why Mark Suster is wrong about not hiring job hoppers
- Parse Domains from URLs easily with Domainatrix
- Resources for Synchronous Reads, Asynchronous Writes at RubyConf 2009
- Typhoeus, the best Ruby HTTP client just got better
- Bypassing wxWidgets error when building Erlang from Source on OS X
- Detect and Parse Atom and RSS Feed URLs from HTML with TruffleHog
- Using the Nginx Memcached module with Passenger
- First NYC Machine Learning Meetup
- Using Named Pipes in Ruby for Inter-process Communication
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