http://upstream-berlin.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:07:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are very proud to announce DevHouseBerlin. DevHouseBerlin is a fun-packed weekend of hacking and sharing knowledge. We open the Box119 office for a weekend and invite hackers of all sorts to join us working on projects, sharing code and ideas and just hanging out among fellow geeks. DevHouseBerlin runs ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/11/13/introducing-devhouseberlin/ Apple's Application Framework Cocoa gained popularity recently, also due to the iPhone. Like many others we started to learn Objective-C to play around with the iPhone a couple of months ago. The basic syntax is fairly easy to learn, also because lots of sources exist to get you up and ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/10/28/cocoa-for-rubyists-with-macruby/ Update: the gem is now available, see the installation instructions below. After several weeks of incubating on my computer it's finally time to get real: I have just open sourced Couch Potato under the MIT license. You can get Couch Potato on github now. For an introduction to CouchDB and ruby ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/10/27/couch-potato-unleashed-a-couchdb-persistence-layer-in-ruby/ Last weekend was Barcamp Berlin 3 and I was there, too. This year's location was the Deutsche Telekom Haupstadtrepräsentanz - an awesome place. Anyway, the purpose of this post is to summarize the sessions i attended and found worthy to write about. So here we go. Slides are mostly posted in ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/10/20/barcamp-berlin-3-looking-back/ If you write a custom template handler, e.g. for pdf templates you might want to use the rails resource route methods e.g. new_users_path. Here is the way how to get this working for a imaginary PDF template handler. [source:ruby] class PdfRender attr_reader :controller #delegate the url_for ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/10/08/resource-route-methods-for-custom-templates/ We have just launched the closed beta of a new product: doingtext.com. Doingtext is a text collaboration tool. After entering your invite key you will be able to start a new discussion about a text that is already there or to be written. You can send the URL of this discussion ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/10/01/product-launch-doingtextcom/ That couch was our intro picture at the workshop. (picture from gizmodo.com) Monday was the first event at our new upstream office, starring @janl and me presenting an introduction to CouchDB - including a new hands on examples part - and afterwards an overview of what can ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/09/25/a-couchdb-primer-for-an-activerecord-mindset/ I find it rather hard to choose the right size for text boxes. They are either to small so that you feel like caged in while writing into them or they are so big that you feel lost in that great white emptiness. These times are past since someone came ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/09/18/let-the-text-fields-grow/ Am 22.9. 2008 gibt es einen Workshop zu CouchDB mit Jan Lehnardt (CouchDB maintainer) und mir. Nach einer kurzen Einführung wird der Fokus vor allem auf hands on experience liegen, d.h. es wird Beispiele und Code geben. Nach Jans CouchDB-Teil werde ich einen Überblick über die derzeitigen Ruby-Bibliotheken geben und ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/09/17/couchdb-workshop/ If you ever meet a bunch of people sitting with their laptops in front of a tent in the middle of nowhere you might have stumbled across a rails camp. The rails camp is a new unconference where ruby hackers meet to exchange ideas and have fun in an open ... http://upstream-berlin.com/2008/09/07/rails-camp-denmark-back-to-nature-the-ruby-way/