Some Guy's Blog

I haven’t blogged since the last Startup Weekend in Charlotte! Must mean it’s time for another one, as the next Startup Weekend approaches. First is Charlotte Startup Weekend 3, where I am a co-organizer. You can read our kickoff blog for CSW3 on our site. We also have testimonials from technologists and business people. This [...]

I have been working at TradeKing since the beginning of September, and the site that I (and others) have been working on will be launched to the public tomorrow. It’s a great site, and I am very happy with my change in brokerage, regardless of my employment status. If you are a stockholder, consider transferring [...]

Ezra’s Merb presentation was useful for someone like me with no exposure to the framework, but could have been sexier. Where’s our 10 minute blog app? Adhearsion looks like it might make VOIP accessible to me, which is a pretty ridiculous notion. If you’re thinking VOIP and Ruby, think Adhearsion. I know the speaker is [...]

I’ve been using OS X on my new MacBook Pro for some time now, and I’m elated with it. I have used OS X before, at Rice. At that time, it was the only computer that I could do everything I would ever need to do from. I’m over that, this time around. I needed [...]

The gang will show up in about an hour for us to all head to the Ruby Hoedown. I’m printing resumes, thanks for the reminder, Jeremy! And CVReg is back up, you can ditch the apology. Thanks, Strategy Cafe.

Matt tagged me, and this seems like a decent enough way to catch everyone up with the basics of what’s going on at this extremely busy time in my life. “list eight habits or facts about yourself, then tag eight more people.” I am not going to finish up writing RailsConf 2007 like I said [...]