May 2010
16 posts
.@nbauman @danmayer … # hours of sleep more important than when I sleep for me but good hours doesn’t necessarily require sleeping in
.@nbauman @danmayer I’m working on building habit to get up earlier. Sleeping in for me feels natural, but leaves me tired throughout day.
April 2010
38 posts
I know it’s old now, but I really enjoyed the Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet. http://bit.ly/21zpG1 Great overview of history & architectures
“More snow?” No thanks, we’re all set. How about next year?
How to kill an unresponsive SSH session: http://bit.ly/avkwRH (original post) http://bit.ly/bFOVV2 (man page excerpt)
New blog post: A new home for our Creative-Commons-licensed Terms of Service and Privacy Policy http://bit.ly/aCJTj9 (via @devver)
Great deck on speeding up Ruby tests (this distributed testing thing sounds cool :)) http://grease-your-suite.heroku.com/
New post: Lessons learned http://devver.net/blog/2010/04/lessons-learned/ (via @devver)
I assumed Cartridge World just had huge selection of printer cartridges. Didn’t know they *refilled* them. Easy way to reduce waste & save $
Most overused/cheesy/lame/annoying rhyme used in rock songs? Zero/hero. Enough already, it’s not clever anymore.
Great time at @tasteofpearl hanging out with @wittytwit @andrewhyde @vikasreddy @jrpowers @rob_c_grant & @bbrinck! (via @wadey) [agreed!]
Shoot, I always forget that Saxy’s closes at 6 on Saturdays.
Feeling very lucky to be a Boulder resident today. Perfect day.
Such a library could also do some checks for the various ==, eq, === functions to make sure they are sane
Is there a common test suite for checking if a Ruby class is ‘well-behaved’? e.g. respond_to works, equal objects produce same hash, etc
New blog post: Intermediate Rack Middleware tips. Please add your own tips! http://bit.ly/bECUFC
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Intermediate Rack Middleware Tips
UPDATE: Upon further research (and help from others in the Ruby community), I realized that cloning the Rack env is a bad idea. I’ve added some explanation as to why below).
I recently wrote my first Rack middleware (source code, gem). I won’t bother giving an introduction to Rack or Rack middleware, because there are plenty of fine introductory tutorials already.
However, I found...
I was just directed to fill out a form on a site that requires “IE 5.5 or higher OR Netscape 6.2 or higher” - and won’t accept Firefox. WTF
About to extend a lease for 1st time ever. I historically have moved every year (only 1 exception, but it was barely a “lease” or a “house”)
iPad is fun but encourages doing things I want to do less: play games, surf the web, watch TV & movies. Exception: reading.
Got to play w an iPad for the 1st time last night (@aniero’s). Impressed & surprised w how polished & fun the experience was.
Um… why is rubyonrails.org a domain squatter page now? (via @avdi) - I’m also confused & concerned
I continue to be amazed at how awesome the Techstars/startup and Ruby communities both are. I feel very lucky to be a part of both.
Thanks! @cjkihlbom @copiousfreetime @Shocked439 @mghaught @arsachs @gustin @Danwahoo @vikasreddy @briandewitt @jrpowers
For the benefit of those not following me but not @devver, we announced yesterday that we’ll be shutting down on April 30th.
Released rack-perftools_profiler (middleware for profiling using perftools.rb) http://bit.ly/d3X2Kc @tmm1 @tannerburson
We’ve been using rack-perftools_profiler internally to profile Caliper stuff and it’s been really useful. gif/pdf printer makes it so easy
My Macbook Pro has been turning itself off at night. When I wake up, it’s off, although still with full battery power. Disconcerting.
Once would have been more than plenty, thanks: http://bit.ly/d6Ii9k http://bit.ly/94tim2
Getting my car inspected Mon., so of course I’ll be cleaning it this wkend, just like I floss & brush like a madman before dentist visit.
It has fewer small pockets than my old bag, but I think those pockets are like space in your home: you inevitably fill it up w/ crap
Transferring items from my old messenger bag to my new backpack (Dakine 101). Really like it so far, I think the size will be perfect
RT @erinashmiller: Something awesome abt teapartiers on the metro—don’t want the gov’t taking ur taxes? You mean for projects like metro?
3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup http://ericri.es/91yKZ8 (via @ericries)
Dear Canon: I fail to see why being out of black ink should prevent me from _scanning_ my document. Go to hell.
Note: I was optimizing string-processing loop I had already identified as bottleneck via profiling with perftools.rb http://bit.ly/a0uU8g
Sunday proj was speeding up Ruby code. Lesson: reduce # of objs created (look for hidden ones like Ranges) & do this: http://bit.ly/dgYfNh
Rubyists: For ‘class Foo::Bar; end’, what would you call that class? A ‘namespaced class’? Something else?