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I got into Portland with relatively little trouble, although I had actually booked a stay at my Wednesday hotel for the wrong night because I am a brainiac. I got on the road in relatively short order the following morning, even though I ended up getting very little sleep. Also, since I was changing hotels, [...]

InfoQ has a JRuby talk that really doesn’t share that much with the talk that they gave during the tutorial session at RailsConf, and that does the presenters a disservice. Even though they were not the most engaging speakers on the bill for the weekend, they had great slides and a great plan to present [...]

Put on by Bruce Williams and an uncredited Marcel Molina, Jr., this session proved to be one of the highlights of the conference for me personally. My experience up to this point has led to a lot of time spent with HTML and CSS education—thus I spend a lot of time working with those two [...]

I haven’t started reading his books because of his death, but I read Cat’s Cradle during my sister’s graduation. I fell in love all over again with his content and his style. I hadn’t read any of his work since I was in middle school (Harrison Bergeron, with the predictable effects). I’ve read the first [...]

It seems like the underpinnings of everything are at stake. —Ze Frank Even though it’s over, he put on the best Show since Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh. I can’t link to it because I am posting from my fricking phone. It’s called Google , people.

Insipired by a chance to win one year of a large accelerator, I started Getting Things Slung. I am working on a Java application that is designed to sync contacts from MS Outlook, so I’m somewhat interested in the off-line/on-line client space. Also, the prize is pretty enticing, and the screenshot sure was pretty! So [...]

I am on the tarmac at JFK. We’re on hour two of just sitting here and now it is really raining. I wonder if we’ll get a letter from Delta?

I sit at the gate. This plane will take me to JFK. The plane after that one will take me to Portland, Oregon for RailsConf 2007. I am an hour ahead of time. I have mostly conquered my cough and runny nose. I have an exit row window seat on the flight from JFK to [...]

Development subversion ruby irb rdoc ri ruby1.8-dev RubyGems sudo gem install rails mysql mongrel_cluster Server apt-get install openssh-server Java apt-get install sun-java-jdk6 Media apt-get install flac gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libxine-extracodecs amarok k3b libmad vlc MySQL / Apache / PHP apt-get install apache2 mysql-server phpmyadmin php5-mcrypt mcrypt libmysqlclient15dev a2enmod proxy a2enmod proxy_ftp a2enmod proxy_http a2enmod proxy_connect Misc apt-get [...]

Thanks to the work of the Joyent team, through their podcast and working with top-level Rails sites on Solaris with DTrace, I am sold on the OpenSolaris operating system. I am pretty rusty with my Solaris admin skills, since most of the ones that I used the most often at Rice were written by senior [...]