Category: work
11/05/07 02:17 - 46ºF - ID#41986
Back to the working world...
I am looking forward to going to Roswell tomorrow, I finally have an idea of how to create a test harness for my order management system so that I can make changes without causing regression and breakage. It's been sucky to work without the testing tools that I've grown so dependent on. Testing is so awesome, such a confident way to move forward. You end up testing everything anyway, so to do it in an organized fashion actually takes less time then manually verifying that nothing breaks after each change.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: ruby
11/04/07 07:11 - 44ºF - ID#41979
Super Happy Weekend
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: ruby
11/03/07 11:13 - 48ºF - ID#41967
Ruby Conf 2007 Keynote
Getting rid of Matz (MRI at least)
Ryan Davis
Koichi
Chad Fowler
David Allen Black
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: ruby
11/02/07 11:52 - 43ºF - ID#41951
Ruby Conf 2007
Matz's Town Hall Meeting
Agenda
(e:James)
Downtown Charlotte
450 Programmers: 446 Male, 4 Women
WTF vs Clarity, Integrity, Proportion
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
10/31/07 04:34 - 64ºF - ID#41908
Summary of Presidential Candidates
John McCain - Past expiration date. Compromised.
Rudy Guiliani - One trick pony. 911. 911. 911. Loony.
Mike Huckabee - God fearin' corporate hatin' no chance in heck.
Fred Thompson - Talks about the Soviet Union. Tired.
Hillary Clinton - Quintessential politician. Blah. Untrustworthy.
Barack Obama - All hat no cattle? Doesn't have enough experience.
John Edwards - Perpetual also-ran. Sad little boy aura.
I'd take any of the Democrats over any of the Republicans though.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
10/31/07 04:07 - 64ºF - ID#41905
On My Way Tomorrow
I also finished up the WNY Ruby web site and posted it last night. So yay! One thing off my plate.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: 10 things
10/29/07 10:41 - 53ºF - ID#41874
10 Things I Like About Leopard
10. Better Ruby on Rails support.
9. Finally compiled FreeImage just now.
8. Feels smoother / starts up faster.
7. Spotlight works now. (Too slow/wonky before)
6. Got to geek out with Paul installing it.
5. Multi account iChat.
4. New 3rd party apps coming out soon (Delicious Monster, TextMate 2)
3. Spaces.
2. New Terminal with tabs and more.
1. Consistent Polished UI (once dock is moved to the side).
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: programming
10/29/07 09:51 - 53ºF - ID#41868
RubyConf
I leave Thursday afternoon to go to RubyConf, and I think it's going to be a lot of fun. (e:James) is coming to lounge pool side while I soak in the knowledge.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
10/29/07 02:09 - 50ºF - ID#41861
New Plan
Right now I get called all the time and people expect me to drop everything for them, but I can't handle half a dozen clients needing fixes every week and still get my new projects done which pay my bills. Plus there's 3 or 4 days a week that I can't do anything at all for them during the day (on-site work somewhere else), so I have to sacrifice my evenings for free.
I should have got an MBA instead of learning how to program, because all the business stuff is hard to manage then the coding. Or maybe I just need a secretary, an accountant, a sales team, and a designer. And as I was telling Paul, a Xanax prescription.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: estrip
10/28/07 07:49 - 46ºF - ID#41850
Party
I'll be setting up a November (e:strip) dinner or some such thing in a couple weeks, trying to get it earlier in the month so as not to be too close to Thanksgiving. How would you all feel about a pot-luck at 24 Linwood? If the boys there would be willing, that is. Not such a drunken all night affair as last night, but dinner and conversation and slightly less scandal.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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