Technical Pickles

Yours truly gave a presentation last night titled 'git as a subversion replacement'. I put the slides up on SlideShare for anyone interested.

Joe Ferris also gave a demo/talk about factory_girl, a tool for using factories in your tests. See the original post announcing factory_girl over at GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS.

There was a backchannel going during the meeting. Here are some notes and links gathered it from and overheard elsewhere:

• Source for bostonrb.org
• Git on Railsmachine
• Subversion support of symlinks
• SVN's svn:externals to GIT's Submodule for Rails Plugins
• Someone suggested presenters serving VNC of their laptops
• Installing git on Mac OS X
  • Installer
  • MacPorts
  • Gentoo Prefix
• Faker for generation of fake data