Dan Ahern

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05 Oct, 2008

Tech Demo

Posted by: danahern In: database| mac| projects| ruby

So in preparation for Rails Rumble I’ve been researching a lot of sexy little plugins.  We have also had a need to test this plugins to make sure they’ll work not just locally but in a shared hosting environment (the first time you get burned and spend an entire weekend, 16 hours, trying to figure [...]

20 Aug, 2008

Phone Conversions

Posted by: danahern In: mac| reviews

I’ve become a fanboy.  I keep telling myself no, but slowly I’m coming to terms.  Last week I picked up an iPhone (bought off ebay so I wouldn’t have to extend my ATT contract).  So I’m going to list some thoughts, and I’m going to compare it to my steallar little Nokia E70 that I [...]

06 Aug, 2008

On Conversion

Posted by: admin In: mac

This week, after running into one RubyGem too many that was required to be compiled, I’ve switched over to the Mac for development. For the last 4 months (since I bought the 17inch MBP) I’ve been flirting with development on it. Until now it’s been the trophy wife that has been trotted out [...]



  • mikhailov: It was great event for us, because give the time together, expirience and joy with rails. Thanks to the railsrumble!
  • Maverick Conceptions » Blog Archive » Rumble 2008… What I Learned: [...] and administration, neither which would have helped us achieve our goal in anyway. Dan wrote a great article outline the work he did before hand
  • mikhailov: This event was unique! Participation in this competition has given me the knowledge and skills in programming

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By day, I'm the Lead Developer for a small startup. By night, I'm writing social applications and managing development for Powered By Geek.