I am not only an Apple fanboi, and a Rails fanboi, but also a Wordpress fanboi. Version 3.0 came out recently and I am very excited. Wordpress has merged with Wordpress Multi-User and the result is something amazing; you can run one blog just as easily as one thousand. Or ten million. Wow. The new theme is great too, looks like I will be able to use it instead of a customized one.
For an as of yet undisclosable project I am researching house in all it’s various incarnations. It only took me three searches to land in the realm of house music, and have spent considerable time re-listening to the classics. Like this one:
Fuckin’ aye.
I am not only an Apple fanboi, but also a Rails fanboi. What do fanbois do? They watch keynotes from their heroes. Here’s the one DHH did at RailsConf2010.
In my series “corporations are amoral” here is a new installment. It’s all over teh interwebs that an AT&T customer emailed the AT&T CEO and was “thanked” by …. legal action! Wow, great customer relations there! Woohoo!
I’m at RailsWayCon2010 and yesterday attended ‘Small is Sexy’ by Nick Sutterer. Besides funny, it was a great little presentation from someone yearning back to components in Rails. Read more
I am at RailsWayCon 2010 and just enjoyed a pleasant presentation by Jonathan Weiss. He told us about CouchDB as a document store and why it rocks.
You only appreciate fast version control when you’re on a slow link. Thank you Linus for creating git, I would have gone insane without it today!
A recent blog post on the Rubyonrails weblog led me to a great presentation about modernizing specs written in RSpec. In the everlasting quest to reduce LOC I made great progress. Away went most before_each blocks and in came let, implicit subjects and explicit subjects. RSpec let() is especially cool, I wish I had known about it earlier.
When you screw people, eventually they are going to screw you back. This is exactly what is happening with Adobe right now. They have been hurting their customers with expensive software, forced upgrades, hideous product activation and most of all crappy, slow, bug-infested software. These days a viable alternative to Flash is available, and companies are dropping Flash like the smelly turd it is.
Today I migrated one of my apps to Ruby 1.9.1. Just for fun. It actually went quite well. There were a couple of issues, most of them related to old gems. After getting everything up-to-date though two issues remained.