May 2008
9 posts
Sweet baby blogging →
May 1st
April 2008
23 posts
Apr 30th
If at First You Don't Succeed, You're in Excellent... →
If at First You Don’t Succeed, You’re in Excellent Company
Apr 29th
“What would I bitch about next?” →
(old, I know.)
Apr 25th
Bootstrapping your subscription based consumer...
I had a great discussion over dinner about subscription based consumer applications with my lovely wife. We don’t normally talk about deep interesting things like this, but hey, why not? ;) It gave me a chance to solidify some thoughts that have been floating around in my head for the last week or so. Maybe I’ll end up talking about this at BarcampKC. First, let’s define...
Apr 25th
Apr 25th
Apr 24th
Rails Kits - Ready-made Rails Billing Code →
Apr 23rd
ec2 is slow
or is it just me?  compared to dedicated servers I’ve had in the past, ec2 just seems horribly slow.  I’m not sure if it’s the lack of specs, disk access or what — but it’s noticeable.
Apr 22nd
Apr 20th
gitrails.rb →
create a fresh rails app, import it into git, ignore tmp/, log/ and copy over your database.yml
Apr 16th
“Actually if you have a thousand people going out launching shit, for 100k or...”
– Venture Voice: VV Show #40 - Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn
Apr 16th
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signup forms
anyone else noticing the trend of dropping the password confirmation field? vimeo does it, ran into it in a few other places today too. I guess it makes sense. after all, they can always retrieve their password later. unless they mistyped their email address too. oops.
Apr 15th
BarCampKC - May 9-10 2008 →
Apr 15th
Apr 10th
test results
from a recent project: Finished in 23.349331 seconds 705 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending Finished in 87.215807 seconds 705 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending first line is new mac, second line is 17” pb g4.  much happier. 
Apr 9th
picking up a new mac today
and while creating the list of apps I needed to copy over “right away”, so I could still get in a full work day, I’m surprised at how few 3rd party apps are actually critical to my work: textmate pyro firefox [+firebug] … that’s quite literally it.  everything else is provided by apple [terminal.app, ruby, mysql] or is web based [hosted gmail]. ah well, time to...
Apr 9th
Apr 8th
“Compare People is declining because it’s a very interesting concept...”
– Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: What’s happening with the top Facebook apps? (I hear this complaint a lot about Facebook apps.  Isn’t rule #1 not to piss off your users?  Someone needs to come up with a Piss Off Factor (POF) metric.)
Apr 4th
Apr 3rd
Apr 3rd
Tulsa Ruby Workshop - April 26th 2008 - 10am to... →
Apr 2nd
programmer humor.
me: What are you working on?
Barry: A Hiland chocolate milk... I'm about 1/2 way done. :)
me: fries and crispy chicken wrap here. haven't started on the crispy chicken wrap yet, still figuring out the best way to unwrap it.
Barry: There's an easy method for that... don't go reinventing the wheel.
Apr 1st