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Four Uses for ActiveInteraction
June 6, 2019 - ActiveInteraction is a handy Ruby gem that helps keep Rails code clean. This posts describes four ways we used it on a recent project.
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Getting Past Getting Started: A Developer Apprentice’s Story
March 14, 2018 - After a career change and code school, Ginnie shares her story on how Viget’s Apprenticeship Program lets her hone her Ruby on Rails skills
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The All New FunSide.com
January 19, 2007 - FALLS CHURCH, VA – Today Viget Labs launched a new site for the Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association (ACVA) (www.funside.com), the tourism group responsible for promoting group and leisure travel to Alexandria, Virginia. Viget…
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Extending Paul Irish’s comprehensive DOM-ready execution
October 27, 2010 - Way back in March of '09, the intelligent (and dashing!) Paul Irish laid forth a markup-based means of executing JavaScript on page load. If you're unfamiliar with the technique, the basics are: Use class and id attributes on your document's body element that map to keys in an…
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Scofield to Speak on Static Sites at CVREG
July 2, 2007 - FALLS CHURCH, VA – Senior Developer Ben Scofield will be presenting “Building and Working with Static Sites in Ruby on Rails” at the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiasts’ Group on Tuesday, July 10, 2007, in Richmond.Scofield, who is leading the development…
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Nixon to Speak at Ruby Brigade
October 9, 2007 - DURHAM, NC – Senior Developer Clinton R. Nixon will wear his speaker's hat on October 16, 2007 when he gives a talk on code extraction and re-use at the next Raleigh-Area Ruby Brigade (Raliegh.rb) meeting.In his talk, "Building Applications as Plug-ins," Nixon will…
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Spoonflower Prints Fabric for Everyone
October 31, 2008 - Spoonflower, a NC-based start-up that prints custom designs on fabric, announced this week that it was leaving private beta and introducing itself to the world. And because we -- under Clinton's lead -- helped to bring their idea to life online, we couldn't be prouder. We built…
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RubyConf Recap
November 8, 2007 - Several Viget Labs developers participated in RubyConf 2007 from November 2-4 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ben was once again selected as a speaker, and Patrick, Clinton, Kyle and I came along. Unlike the Ruby on Rails-oriented conferences we attended earlier in the year,…
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Being Conventional
May 9, 2007 - One of the biggest selling points about Ruby on Rails is that it favors "convention over configuration." By following certain well-documented conventions in development, you can eliminate the need for all but the most fundamental configuration in your application. This appeals…
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Viget Devs Storm Chicago
September 15, 2009 - This past weekend, Ben and I travelled to Chicago to speak at Windy City Rails. It was a great conference; highlights included Dean Wampler’s discussion of functional programming in Ruby, Noel Rappin’s talk on handling difficult-to-test portions of your…