I will be giving a talk on GIT at tonights CVREG meeting.

If you've been reading about GIT lately and haven't had time to get your feet wet, come by to learn a little and see how it works. I'll be going over the benefits of GIT as well as doing some live demos to show how nice its silky smooth features work.

More info on the upcoming page

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So I finally got around to getting legit and filed my papers. I'll now be operating under the name Mustache, Inc. But mainly just Mustache. WTF? Mustache? Why?

Why would I name my company Mustache? Well, why not. I came up with the logo and liked it, and wanted something a bit abstract. Plus it is going to work well as a first line of defense for boring stuck up clients. If you can't work with a company named Mustache, then Mustache can't work with you.

If you've met me, you'd know I'm a pretty laid back guy. I don't kiss ass and I don't bullshit. I let my work and commitment to projects speak for itself. I've tried to convey this with initial consults with clients. I tend to give them "100% Maddox" during these meetings and lay it all on the table. So far it has worked out great. It's amazing what happens when you operate a business as an honest and transparent person. It actually works! Imagine that!

So let it be known, I'm officially available for hire. Check out the site and let me know what you think.

http://www.mustacheinc.com

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Tonight the Central Virginia Ruby Enthusiast Group will be hosting an Open Mic night. Anyone attending will be able to jump up and give a 5-10 minute lightning talk about a topic they're excited about.

If you haven't been to a CVREG meeting, tonight would be a great time to visit and introduce yourself. The meeting starts at 6:00, but you can show up at 5:30 if you want to hang out and meet everyone.

All the relevant information can be found at the event's Upcoming page

Hope to see you there!

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It's Sunday and I'm back at home from Raleigh. The Hoedown really got pulled off. Nathaniel and Jeremy did a great job organizing and keeping things moving throughout the weekend.

The pig pickin' in the park was quite a nice surprise as well. It kept the friendly feel moving. And it was really good too! Carolina BBQ FTW.

The talks turned out pretty great. They (for the most part) stayed away from Rails more than they curbed towards them, so that small goal was accomplished.

I think the best part of all the talks is the awareness the topics received. I've never used C bindings with Ruby, or even investigated, but now I know its not the HARDEST thing in the world, if I ever have to. Also, this goes out to you Adhearsion, you and I have a date. And I think it might just turn into a very beautiful relationship.

The crowd was pretty good and chatty. Everyone was very friendly and as usual had fun stuff to show/talk about.

The lightning talks were great as usual, this really is my favorite format. I really need to get up and do one sometime.

The keynotes were pretty good, although I felt like Marcel's was more of a "talk" where Ken Auer's was more of a Keynote.

Thanks again to all the organizers.

Oh, and the title is a reference to brain games, which no one ever gets, oh well.

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Here's the list of gems that are included on Leopard by default.

# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (1.3.3)
Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.

actionpack (1.13.3)
Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.

actionwebservice (1.2.3)
Web service support for Action Pack.

activerecord (1.15.3)
Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.

activesupport (1.4.2)
Support and utility classes used by the Rails framework.

acts_as_ferret (0.4.0)
acts_as_ferret - Ferret based full text search for any ActiveRecord
model

capistrano (1.4.1)
Capistrano is a framework and utility for executing commands in
parallel on multiple remote machines, via SSH. The primary goal is
to simplify and automate the deployment of web applications.

cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.1)
Fix an exploitable bug in CGI multipart parsing which affects Ruby
<= 1.8.5 when multipart boundary attribute contains a non-halting
regular expression string.

daemons (1.0.6)
A toolkit to create and control daemons in different ways

dnssd (0.6.0)
DNS Service Discovery (aka Rendezvous) API for Ruby

fastthread (1.0)
Optimized replacement for thread.rb primitives

fcgi (0.8.7)
FastCGI library for Ruby.

ferret (0.11.4)
Ruby indexing library.

gem_plugin (0.2.2)
A plugin system based only on rubygems that uses dependencies only

hpricot (0.5)
a swift, liberal HTML parser with a fantastic library

libxml-ruby (0.3.8.4)
LibXML2 bindings for Ruby

mongrel (1.0.1)
A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro
and Iowa apps.

needle (1.3.0)
Needle is a Dependency Injection/Inversion of Control container for
Ruby. It supports both type-2 (setter) and type-3 (constructor)
injection. It takes advantage of the dynamic nature of Ruby to
provide a rich and flexible approach to injecting dependencies.

net-sftp (1.1.0)
Net::SFTP is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SFTP client protocol.

net-ssh (1.1.1)
Net::SSH is a pure-Ruby implementation of the SSH2 client protocol.

rails (1.2.3)
Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,
and ORM.

rake (0.7.3)
Ruby based make-like utility.

ruby-openid (1.1.4)
A library for consuming and serving OpenID identities.

ruby-yadis (0.3.4)
A library for performing Yadis service discovery

sources (0.0.1)
This package provides download sources for remote gem installation

sqlite3-ruby (1.2.1)
SQLite3/Ruby is a module to allow Ruby scripts to interface with a
SQLite3 database.

termios (0.9.4)
Termios module are simple wrapper for termios(3). It can be included
into IO-family classes and can extend IO-family objects. In
addition, the methods can use as module function.

Here's some of my favorite inclusions:

• Termios - Yay for password masqueing (sp?)
• ruby-openid
• hpricot - sweet!
• ferret and acts_as_ferret

Looks like no mysql, so its not 100% complete. (at least MY dev stack)

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