Archive for September 2007

Day Two of Startup Weekend: The End is Near

Today was wild to say the least. We've got alot of very talented people, but unfortunately not alot whose expertise lies in development. My push for Rails as ...

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September 30th, 2007 by chrisdpratt

One Day Down, Two to Go

The first night of Startup Weekend Houston went off without a hitch. Everyone finally settled in around 7:00pm and we started throwing around ideas. There were alot of ...

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September 29th, 2007 by chrisdpratt

Countdown to Startup Weekend Houston

It's 4:43pm right now and the festivities begin at 6:00pm for the first annual Startup Weekend Houston. Startup Weekend in general was first started in Boulder, Colorado earlier this ...

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September 28th, 2007 by chrisdpratt

Meet RSpec: Your Friendly, Neighborhood BDD Framework

Hope Ol' Stan Lee doesn't have that "friendly, neighborhood" bit trademarked... ah well... life is to short to worry about such things. Welcome to your whirlwind tour ...

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September 23rd, 2007 by chrisdpratt

A Fresh Coat of Paint

Well, after... umm... months... of running this blog without a template, things are starting to look up. I wanted to be ever so uber unique and design my ...

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September 18th, 2007 by chrisdpratt

Ruby on Rails Development in Windows via Cygwin

Such a love/hate relationship I have with Linux. It has everything but a great editor (Please no flames from the vi and emacs crowd... those are great editors ...

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September 17th, 2007 by chrisdpratt

Quantity vs Quality: RSS Spam from Popular Blogs

That ought to be a controversial enough title. So just what am I talking about? Well, I got tied up this week with some things and neglected to check ...

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September 10th, 2007 by chrisdpratt