Technical Pickles

Josh on Programming, Linux, and Other Technical Stuff

Quick links

Websites: Technical Pickles; Boston.rb
Presentations: git as a subversion replacement

Websites

Technical Pickles

You're looking at it!

One of the goals of this site is to be my central web presence. To that end, you can find my resume and portfolio, and link to my content on other sites.

This site is also my first attempt to build a Rails application. Some noteworthy plugins and gems used:

I host and deploy it myself on a self-managed SliceHost VPS. Here are some of the pieces in the deployment stack:

For tracking hits and exposure, I use:

I host the source for this on GitHub in a private repository.

Boston.rb

This site was built to serve as a portal for everything having to do with Ruby in the Boston area. Among other things, we currently provide:

Event listings
Video recordings of meetings
Job postings
Projects built by Boston Rubyists

It was created one night at a hackfest. Since then, Dan Croak and I have been continuing to improve and maintain it.

Presentations

git as a subversion replacement

I gave this talk at the June 2008 Boston Ruby Group meeting. Unfortunately, was not able to capture the audio or video, but do have the slides available: