Rep. Bill Young, of Florida: Constitution was a bad idea. (2009/02/03)
Learning Rails, Round 2: Well, that was easy. (2009/01/19)
My ideal situation, given that I already know Apache, would be to have Rails work within an Apache server, because then I’d be using an existing server I understand instead of trying to learn and debug a new web server AND a new toolkit, but the pages I found were full of stuff about setting up FastCGI and embedding stuff in it, and so on… So, I finally had this idea: I’d try IRC. Because the IRC channel folks, while they may be rude sometimes, are at the very least current.
[read more...]Rails, round 1: Initial setup (2009/01/18)
The initial setup is mostly easy.
[read more...]A newbie's view of Ruby on Rails (2009/01/18)
I’m doing a project, and I think I’m going to try to do it in Rails.
[read more...]Writing good change log messages (2009/01/17)
Ever wonder what that idiot was thinking when he checked in a change that completely broke a piece of software, typically right before a deadline? Ever wonder if anyone’s thinking that about you?
[read more...]Circuit City liquidating... (2009/01/16)
Well, it’s not every day you hear about 30,000 people losing their jobs all at once.
[read more...]Trivia point about external RAID on OS X. (2009/01/13)
This may be of more interest to Mac sysadmins than to the rest of my readers, but it was really, really, really interesting to me, in that kind of “OMG did we just lose everything” way that software so often is.
[read more...]Read these books. (2009/01/11)
Here’s two books that you should read, even though you may have never heard of them.
[read more...]Thoughts on ADHD, half a year in (2009/01/05)
A little bit over half a year ago, I started treatment for ADHD. Medication is amazing, but it doesn’t fix everything (and no one, I think, really expects that it does). So a bit of an update may be in order.
[read more...]What's this, a new blog? (2009/01/04)
To make a long story short, I’ve long sort of hated Movable Type. This isn’t all their fault; I figured it would be fine to just use the file-based database scheme, and maybe it’d work well normally for a small, low-traffic blog…
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