It’s been a wonderful event, well organized and with a good mood among all the partecipants. I enjoyed the presentation and gave a humble talk on capistrano.

Here are the slides: RailsToItaly Presentation

Update: here are the Capistrano examples I showed at the end of the talk. A notice to the downloader: they are a port to capistrano 2 of one of my production setups that’s still running on capistrano 1 (i.e. I have used them to show a complex setup but not actually tested them, you are warned!)

This is so amusing: buttons is a blind camera, or better a camera that doesn’t make photos but rather that shows you the photos that other people have taken in the very same moment.

It pushes to the limit the act of taking photos to remeber moments, it just records the time and day, and connects your memory of that moment with what someone else (somewhere else) were experiencing.

technorati tags:art, memory, photography

My article Tips for Optimizing Rails on Oracle has been published on the Oracle Technology Network site! I can’t say how much i liked working on this.

I tried to synthesize in one place all that needs to be known to make the best from the two technologies and explained all of the tips in oracle-specific terms.

Rails on Oracle comes out as a good performer, but my only regret is that i did not have time to investigate (and maybe contribute back to the community) on adding proper bind variables support to ActiveRecord, which would have been the definitive optimization, but I see that the subject is being actively discussed on the core developers ML, so we may get there soon ;)

On the side, for those interested, I made “a Rails “version” of the HR schema that has been modified to directly comply with the common Rail conventions” [code here]

I hope that what i wrote there makes sense and I’d love to hear what you think!

technorati tags:oracle, xe, ruby, rubyonrails, database