Hi, I'm Jeremy McAnally. I founded Arcturo (we do web + mobile) and tweet at @ jm and get my open source on at http://github.com/jm and write run-on ...
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speakers.io will connect speakers and conferences tl;dr: speakers.io is an app to connect speakers and conferences. It’s going to be awesome. I’ve been a conference organizer for almost 6 years now (and a speaker for slightly longer), and year after year I’ve hit the same points of fr...
On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment Ever since launching Railcar , I’ve been getting a lot of questions about why I’m building it, how I’m approaching things, how people can help, and so on, so I thought I’d take a few minutes and share some things with you. Why? The main reason...
On a positive note: I’m starting a positive newsletter. I love surfing Twitter, checking Facebook, and hanging out on Reddit/Hacker News/etc. as much as the next person, but I’ve got to be honest: you guys can kind of be douchebags. Pair that with the constant cycle of terrible news b...
My wife now has my “old” cell phone number (I got an iPhone 4, she kept the 3GS and my number). Unfortunately for her, that number is still on my resume (and there’s no legitimate reason to change it; anyone who actually needs to reach me still can since, you know, she’s my wife). But...
Now, as I’ve learned more about Tokaido’s approach, I’m really glad that I started building something else. Statically linking everything is good for the tools to get started (for example, we’re going to make it such that you don’t have to compile anything to get started with Rails an...
Improved validations in Rails 3 Quite sorry about not getting another post up sooner; I’ve been very busy lately with a few different things (some of which shall be revealed very soon!). Today I want to talk about validations. Validations received quite a bit of love in Rails 3, but i...
Attention API Provider: How to make people using your API love you At Arcturo , we’ve been working with a lot of remote API’s and big data lately. The more API’s from all over the web I work with, the more I realize how much some companies really get how to build an API that developer...
The Path to Rails 3: Introduction Wow, over half a year with no blog post. That may be a new record for blog laziness for me, but fear not! This bout of sloth shall not last, and the dearth of blog entries shall come to and end! This cure should come partially because I’ve switched to...
