Dan Ahern

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24 Oct, 2008

Rails Rumble ‘08

Posted by: danahern In: reviews| ruby| thoughts

Rails Rumble was an amazing experience.  I think I slept about 6 hours over a 56 hour period and while I became grouchy I don’t think I ever stopped having fun.  The fun stopped after the first day of voting.  Starting during the second day of voting I <3 Games plummeted in the rankings.  I [...]

30 Aug, 2008

SVN & GIT

Posted by: danahern In: reviews| thoughts

With the recent change over to my Mac, I’ve started to really take a look at the differences between SVN and GIT.  I’m still in the process of learning how to use both bundles for TextMate so when I’m actually in “work mode” I’ll usually forego playing around and just use the command line and [...]

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 [...]



  • 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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