Since I launched my new main blog, I haven’t hooked up the syndication to bring over posts yet. So if you’re looking for anything ruby-related, here’s a list of what I’ve written lately:
RailsConf Dispatches
Rescue Missions: Tammer Saleh on parachuting into disaster codebases
Test Always? How not thinking carefully about your test suite can hold you back
GridFS [...]
Yes, the rumors you’ve been hearing are all true: we closed on our first home Thursday evening! It’s been a long road, and we almost didn’t get there (Bank of America, you were awful). But we got a great interest rate and a deal on a home that should have cost twice as [...]
I know it’s been a while. Sorry. Anyway, this is great:
Jesse Helms and his ilk inject a bit of fresh blood into art which, for a moment, can imagine itself an insurrectionary force. The sad irony is that Helms really believes art can change the world. The NEA liberals think that all [...]
My first real YouTube upload with my new iFlip camcorder:
Attachment_fu is the shit, no doubt. But sometimes you want to do more than upload, resize, and thumbnail. Designers often have a specific vision that dictates a more complex workflow for incoming images. For these tasks, it may be necessary to reprocess the saved images – something you don’t necessarily need to [...]
In case you don’t get the Facebook invite, feel free to join Tasha and me for duckpin bowling at Plaza Bowl (523 E Southside Plz) on Wednesday at 6:30pm to celebrate my 30th birthday!
You know what’s stupid? Clumsily checking for a javascript redirect in your RJS with this kind of shit:
it "should redirect to the collaborative quote screen" do
xhr :post, ‘attach’, :attachment_id => ‘4023′
response.body.should =~ /window\.location\.href = \"/collabquote\";"
end
Not only is this ugly, but it ties your test to a particular route, rather than [...]
So Matt O., I, and our wives rolled over to Plaza Bowl and Duckpins this past Thursday to duckpin bowl and drink PBR pitchers. We had a great time and ended up talking to the owner (it was a slow night). He asked us about any ideas we had for better marketing the place and [...]
Here’s a photo montage Tasha put together to express our wishes for the season. Enjoy your days of mirth!
Since I used to produce amateur electronic music, mostly drum and bass / jungle (you can sample some of my work here) I’m very familiar with the prevalence and importance of the Amen break. So it’s cool to see a short documentary that can chronicle its adventures and tie it into free culture and [...]
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