February 2007
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Dallas.rb, now with Dave Thomas!
The March Dallas.rb meeting will feature the Dave Thomas speaking on Metaprogramming in Ruby. Dave literally wrote the book on Ruby, and also Rails. He’s also an excellent speaker.
The Dallas.rb crew has worked out special digs for this meeting, with refreshments, etc, so if you’re in the DFW area and have [...]
Big time
It was a difficult decision to leave my job of 11 years last Fall. I had wanted to for a long time, and was confident that I’d do well on my own — but, still, I had all the usual fears as the primary breadwinner and all. Luckily, I can report everything’s going [...]
Django vs. Rails
I posted some comments RE: Django over at Jim’s blog. I was planning to post some comments here, but the timing of his post prompted me.
PyCon: One laptop per child
The morning keynote just finished. Ivan Krstic from the
PyCon: Django
I’m currently in the full day of Django tutorials at PyCon. Hope no one catches on that I’m also pecking away at a Rails app while listening!
New Rails project
Well, after using it for personal applications, skunk works projects that I haven’t had time to actually launch, and my consulting site — I just got the go ahead on my first professional Ruby on Rails project!
I’m really excited about it because it’s also a first co-venture with Jamie, a good friend and awesome designer. [...]
More eBay’ing
Clearing out a few more records and old cellphones this week on eBay. It’ll be fun to see how the punk records do, it’s been spotty some are appearently pretty collectable based on past experience.
Sinusitis…
Of the acute variety, has been bringing me down for about a week and a half. Finally got in to the doctor on Tuesday and I think the anti-biotic is starting to do it’s work, but man, what a drag. Makes it difficult to concentrate and I seem to need to concentrate a [...]
DFW geekery
DemoCampDallas1 was fun tonight. Demos of a lot of cool new web technology coming out of the area. Good networking. Many familiar faces from Dallas.rb and BarCamp. Speaking of Dallas.rb, Adam’s lined up Dave Thomas (who live here in the area) to speak at the next meeting to speak on Metaprogramming. [...]
DemoCampDallas
The first DemoCampDallas is next week. I won’t be presenting at this one, but I’ll be there. Be there or be….wait, you’re probably pretty square if you will be there. Definitely a geek-fest.
Servoy: print to screen/file/email/printer
I wanted a convenient way to manage giving the user a option to print any content to a screen preview, file, email or a printer for any print job in the solution. What I came up with is what follows.
First, you'll need a UI, mine looks like this (red text added to show global [...]
Mikeronaut
My old friend Mike Leach is finally joining the blogging world, to record his experiences touring with Sean Lennon in Europe. Mike's a sound engineer, and he'll be running the boards. Mike was the drummer in my high school band, amongst other notable accomplishments.
First day in the new office
As we prepare for #3 around the homefront, we've been rearranging a bit. Old playroom is becoming the home office, and today was my first working day in the new office. It's far from all put together, but it's going to be a big improvement.
My old desk was a door on two homemade [...]
Macbook back
I took my MacBook Pro into the shop this week. One of the fans was making a weird noise, and the trackpad button had been sticky for sometime. I feared taking it in, because I thought it would end up shipped off to Apple and I'd be without it for weeks. Not [...]