Switching to Git: New Site gitbetter.com
January 24, 2010
I am finally giving in and moving most of my projects from Subversion to Git.
Follow my progress, tips, trials and tribulations at a new site: gitbetter.com
Ruby on Rails/EC2 Talk at Chicago Code Camp
May 3, 2009
I presented a talk called Building and Deploying a Ruby on Rails Application on Amazon EC2 at the first Chicago Code Camp at the College of Lake County in Grayslake, IL on Saturday May 30, 2009.
In the talk, I did a brief overview of the popular web framework Ruby on Rails and then a quick overview of Amazon’s cloud computing platform EC2. Given that Code Camp aims to be a code-heavy and Powerpoint-light conference, I spent a majority of my 75 minutes building a real Rails app and deploying it to EC2. I showed the power of convention over configuration, Active Record, deployment with Capistrano, database migrations, and other pieces of the Rails stack. (Projector woes prevented me from being as productive as I would have liked … but I still successfully got a brand new app deployed in the cloud via a 3G wireless card!)
My slides are available here: rails-and-ec2-rob-lambert.ppt
The code developed at the talk can be found at the following Subversion URL: http://subversion.assembla.com/svn/zabada_public/codecampbook/ (see the README for quick steps on deploying this example to EC2)
Thanks to the Chicago Code Camp folks putting on a great event!
Congrats to the Django Team for 1.0!
September 3, 2008
Chicago’s very own Adrian Holovaty and crew officially released their 1.0 of the awesome Django Framework. Congrats and best wishes!
The “web framework for perfectionists with deadlines” is used around the world by Everyblock.com, WashingtonPost.com, Pownce and I am sure many more to come with the “1.0″ blessing.
One thing that sets Django apart from a lot of open source projects is the stunningly awesome documentation. It’s been over two and a half years since my first interaction with Django, and it’s great to see them working so hard for so long to make sure that they get it right!
New Service for Vinyl Collectors: http://wax.fm Coming Soon!
August 27, 2008
Zabada is working on a new service for the web and your mobile device that will make finding and collecting vinyl records easier and more fun. The URL will be http://wax.fm. That’s right, not dot com … dot FM! Federated States of Micronesia represent! Stay tuned!
BTW, the logo was designed by “vibin.nair” via a crowd sourcing project at Chicago’s very own awesome company crowdSPRING.
New Release of Hi Tech Product
June 27, 2008
New product is coming and it will rock your socks off. Or at least you’ll like it.
This is really a test post … but a new product will likely come from the humble doors of Zabada Technology soon …
Introducing Zabada Technology
June 22, 2008
Zabada Technology soon to be in business to help solve your toughest problems.
Software development projects. Training. Code reviews. Agile development team coaching. Custom development.
We offer expertise in Java development including Spring Framework, Hibernate, Lucene and JBPM. We can help you select your optimal web framework: we know Grails, Django, Wicket, Ruby on Rails, Spring Web Flow and many others.
Stay tunes for more info. Thanks.
