A little disappointed
That’s one right-on bug report
The case of the 500-mile email: “‘We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,’ the chairman explained. I choked on my latte. ‘Come again?’ ‘We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,’ he repeated. ‘A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.’ “
Happy Bear
A Glorious Dawn
Remember what wonder was like? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
The Positive Reinforcer
A Letter to My Younger Self
A Letter to My Younger Self: “
Sure, I could go back and tell my teenage self not to give up playing the piano, but would that just leave me in my 30’s dreading another gig in the bar of some hotel waiting for the inevitable tooth-grinding moment some drunk tourist requests ‘Piano Man’ for the sixty thousandth time? Would I hunch over the keys, bang out those first chords and wish to my core I could go back in time and advise my teenage self to teach himself Perl?
So I pondered. And I thought. And I finally came up with the one important, nay vital bit of advice I would give myself if I had the chance….
Charlotte.rb Organizational Meeting
Hello, Charlotte Rubyists!
As you may have heard, our organizer and sponsor, Jesse Schoch, has left the Queen City for Northern Virginia early this month. That leaves us with some pretty big shoes to fill if we’d like the group to continue on!
I’d like to suggest an organizational meeting for Amelie’s Bakery on Tuesday, Aug. 25th, starting at 6PM. The goal for the meeting, in addition to socializing with fellow Rubyists, would be for us all to talk about the role we could play in charlotte.rb, if any.
Ruby Go Mobile Web
The PhoneGap guys are trying to bring development with web standards to the mobile platform, specifically by leveraging WebKit, which is available and/or used on basically all platforms but the BlackBerry. That seems like a hell of a goal to me. Read the rest of this entry »
Flying Robots!
Anyone who didn’t like this talk must not have had a pulse.
The “big idea” of the talk was doing open-source software development on an open-source hardware platform that does something cool! Like flying a freaking blimp to The Flight of the Valkyries!
Laptops Down: Terrible Noises for Beautiful People
Misha Glouberman’s contribution to our lovely conference was not technical in nature. It was a shared experiment in becoming a cellular automata that generated sound. It was a lovely experience! Read the rest of this entry »