While I functioned as the producer and driving force behind RubyNation’s video production effort, I had only limited editing experiencer with Final Cut Pro. Nick Sieger’s video on “Rails: The Killer Java Web Stack,” is the first conference video that I was 100% responsible for from beginning to end.
NOVARUG Rails/Facebook Talk
I’ll be giving my “Leveraging Rails to Build Facebook Apps, Version 2.0” talk at the NovaRUG meeting on September 15th. This version of the talk incorporates the recent changes that Facebook has made to its developer ecosystem. It will also be videotaped by the incomparable Don Anderson, although the talk won’t be available online until after I’ve given the talk at SunnyConf in Phoenix, AZ.
GSA Competitions and Prizes Industry Day
I attended the GSA’s Competitions and Prizes Industry Day yesterday, an event designed to facilitate President Obama’s mandate for using contests and prizes to spur innovation, transparency and collaboration within government. Contests represent an exciting application space, and I was pleased to be able to talk to folks about our Votridea Contest Platform.
I Have No Klout
KeenerTech on Facebook
KeenerTech.com now has a Facebook presence. Follow us on Facebook now.
Speaking at SunnyConf
I just received word today that I was accepted as a speaker for SunnyConf, Arizona’s first Ruby conference, which will be held September 25, 2010. I’ll be giving a talk on “Leveraging Rails to Build Facebook Applications.” This is version 2.0 of the talk, incorporating major changes that were announced by Facebook at their F8 conference in April.
Earthquake Hits DC Area
I felt my first earthquake this morning — like a freight train rumbling past my house just outside. It was a minor quake, just 3.6 on the Richter scale.
KeenerTech Hits a New High
Site traffic for this blog hit a new high in June with more than 11,000 page views. I’m very pleased with the steady growth in traffic.
Twitter Problems
I just got “rate-limited” doing a search on Twitter for #RubyNation. This was the first time I’ve used Twitter in the past week because I’ve been busy with multiple projects. It’s also, by extension, the first and only search I’ve done in the past week. I have to say that either Twitter’s search is broken, or their algorithm for identifying people who need to be rate-limited is totally FUBAR.
Note: It turned out to be a widespread Twitter problem.
RubyNation Contest
It looks like RubyNation will be doing an online photo contest using the Votridea Online Contest Platform (which I helped create). I’ll post more news as it becomes available.