Even though the Continuous Improvement in Software Development Conference may be over, there is still much work being done to distill and distribute the knowledge, value, and magic that happened made KaizenConf 2008 the great success it was. Get the videos As part of that distillation process I, and many others, are currently going through hundreds of Gigabytes of video footage we captured, we’re doing post production work, and eventually we’ll be uploading all of it to the Intar-webs. The primary location to find information on any of the pre-conference workshops or the sessions themselves is...

Again, this is just another little reminder for myself since I keep forgetting how to do it. Anyhow… If you don’t have tab-completion and syntax coloring in your IRB sessions, you’re missing out! But thanks to both some kick-ass terminals and Ruby itself, you can get both in just a few simple steps. As easy as 1, 2, done! Assuming you’ve already got Ruby and RubyGems installed, fire up a terminal window and install the Wirble gem: gem install wirble Next, open (or create it if...

This is as much a reminder for myself as anything else – as I’ve now had to do this about a dozen times between repaving my laptop, home workstation, and work machine(s). The How-To Don't try to install RubyGems for Cygwin using the gem that comes with the Ruby One-Click Installer for Windows. Instead, get the tarball, or zip file, and install it using the included installer script. Since RubyGems is pure Ruby you don't have to worry about having a compiler installed. It should just work with the default Cygwin install plus Ruby...