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Enjoying the iPad

Mon, 10 May 2010 15:17:00 -0400

I finally purchased an iPad and I am really enjoying using it. My laptop use has dropped tremendously. Coding is one of the few things I use my laptop for that the iPad hasn't replaced. My favorite app so far has got to be MLB.com's "At Bat 2010." "GoodReader" is great for pdf's. My wife is enjoying the iPad as well, mostly for Bejeweled and the touch screen.

iPad

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:46:00 -0500

Great post from @joehewitt on the iPad.

Enterprise Cloud Summit

Sun, 31 May 2009 04:33:00 -0400

I attended the Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas during Interop. It was a good experience, met some very good people, and learned a lot more about cloud computing.

Amazon announced their CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, and elastic load balancing for Amazon EC2. Which all look very interesting.

The running demo application was nice to see as it is able to run on multiple cloud platforms provided by different providers, you can try the demo here. The demo app used the open source project Panda, which was great as I had started investigating Panda shortly before the summit.

I look forward to deploying more applications in the "cloud".

Congrats to EngineYard on Releasing Vertebra

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:45:00 -0500

Engine Yard has release Vertebra. I am looking forward to doing some digging with this. You can get the code at github. Links to the source and documentation can be found on Engine Yard's site.

RubyConf 2008 videos

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:05:00 -0500

The confreaks have released the RubyConf 2008 videos. Looking forward to watching as I was not able to attend.

Ruleby at the Ruby Hoedown

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:37:00 -0400

Confreaks have posted the talks from this year's Ruby Hoedown. Of special interest to me was Joe Kutner's talk on Ruleby, the Rule Engine for Ruby.

A question from the crowd asked about if there were plans for an external DSL and the answer is "yes". We are building an external DSL based on the internal String based DSL in Ruleby with parsing handled by Treetop. It has been a while in the making or not making, but work has begun again...

MattSmith.me is launched!

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:50:00 -0400

Welcome to MattSmith.me. Here you will learn about all things related to, well, me. Most will be technical in nature as I am a computer programmer. Among other things I will review books I am reading and projects I am working on. Currently that would be on topics such as ruby, erlang, and REST.

Ruleby, ActiveRule, and Resterly are three projects I am working on. I cofounded the Ruleby project and will soon release ActiveRule and Resterly. ActiveRule will be a plugin aimed at making Ruleby easier to use with Rails and Merb. Resterly is an erlang based project to help with the building of REST based services in erlang. Hopefully these projects will be useful for others...