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What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:44:22 -0500

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

Lessconf 2010

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:19:07 -0500

I’m posting information on Less Conference 2010 as I know it. I had a bit of trouble tracking down this info as Allan and Steve where offline and most all links point to the old 2009 site.

Less Conf 2010 Info

Dates: May 21-22, 2010
Where: Atlanta, GA USA
Register

It was great fun last October. I hope to see you there.

Double-fisted wifey #fb

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:08:23 -0600

Double-fisted wifey #fb

Dice (XKCD)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:43:11 -0600

Dice (XKCD)

Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:19:05 -0600

Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't

11 shall be thy maximum iPhone pages.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:35:05 -0600

11 shall be thy maximum iPhone pages.

Harmony - Very cool HTML5 canvas experiment

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:48:08 -0600

Harmony - Very cool HTML5 canvas experiment

Introducing Rollerbot!

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:38:27 -0600

Introducing Rollerbot!

jQuery Robot

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:33:43 -0600

jQuery Robot

OH “Even though my brain is definitely single-core, I somehow end up with...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:41:57 -0600

OH “Even though my brain is definitely single-core, I somehow end up with deadlocks…”

"When a developer pair programs for the first time, it feels like the first time being in a locker..."

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:23:00 -0600

“When a developer pair programs for the first time, it feels like the first time being in a locker room. You are around a bunch of naked people and it feels awkward to be naked too.”

- http://auberger.com/archives/2005/03/extreme-programming

How many languages do you speak?

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:29:00 -0600

“How many languages do you speak?” — Owen Lars

“I am fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.” — Protocol Droid

Was Rails 3 one of them?

It sure seems like you have to be C-3PO to make it as a dev:

html now html 5, css and now css 3,
ruby - modules, mixins, and metaprogramming
rails - rails routing, rails responders, validations, migrations, built-in helpers
tdd/bdd (whatever you call it this week) - test unit, shoulda, cucumber, rspec,
yaml, xml, csv (doubtful that csv actually counts against us tho),
erb, haml
database - does sql/mysql cut it? nope. now you need to know couchdb, mongodb, redis, friendly, riak, and someflavordb,
mashups/apis - aws, ec2, ebs, s3 (sheesh Amazon), and whatever api so-and-so came up with that you want to eat, SOAP, REST
javascript and jquery and gotta know all the plugin options too,
and then there is the command line:
rails (formerly script/ ,
version control - svn, now git,
"dare i mention our great friend and sometimes nemesis, extemporaneously?"[/(re)[a-z]*.*(g).*(ex)/i];[$1, $2, $3] * ''
and I haven’t even mentioned essential unix commands -
grep, scp, ssh (are you private or pubic?), top, less, tail, head -
for the hardcore fans: sed and awk,
and we also have our text editor “language” which is really just a human-muscle-memory set -
textmate, vim, emacs, xcode, gedit, joe (yes I said joe).
how many skillsets do we really have?
how many do we need?
doesn’t anyone else think this is insanity?
ipad.

Scope a variable and clean up your code with .tap

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:39:28 -0600

Scope a variable and clean up your code with .tap:

Great case for using .tap to clean up and organize code.

Example


  <% @active_messages.each do |message| %>
    <%= message.title %>
    
      <% message.comments.last.tap do |comment| %>
        
          <%= avatar_for(comment.creator) %>
        
        Latest comment <%= time_ago_in_words(comment.created_at) %> ago by <%=    comment.creator.full_name %>
      <% end %>
    
  <% end %>

ready for thai

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:28:18 -0600

ready for lunch… maybe thai today.

Winding down with a tin domestic.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:09:24 -0600

Winding down with a tin domestic.

laying some #awesome down today

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:09:20 -0600

laying some #awesome down today

I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009:...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:09:11 -0600

I took it and so should you—The Survey For People Who Make Websites, 2009: http://aneventapart.com/survey2009

RT @wordfriend: This word made my day- obnubilate: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:08:52 -0600

RT @wordfriend: This word made my day- obnubilate: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred http://www.wordfriend.org/words/obnubilate

Turned my bad morning into a good afternoon.

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:05 -0500

Turned my bad morning into a good afternoon.

RT @adamstac: RT @greggpollack: There’s a new contender in the Rails authentication space:...

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:45:07 -0500

RT @adamstac: RT @greggpollack: There’s a new contender in the Rails authentication space: Devise - http://is.gd/4th66