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reeses or tabasco?

Monday, December 29th, 2008

Everybody’s talking about it. Couple of days in jail, whole town changes, etc.
There are two camps over this currently: the Rails side(”Whoo! Chocolate in my peanut-butter! Less magic and plugins that don’t explode randomly between versions!”), and the Merb side(”DHH is going to defenestrate us all! They won’t taste great! These books from the tech [...]

testing to irritation

Monday, March 31st, 2008

So after wasting spending a few days checking out other test frameworks for Ruby/Rails, I’ve come up with this:
Rspec:
The Textmate plugin is barely useable; it appears to have a completely different manner of loading files versus the standard spec command(placing a spec file next to its target and doing a simple ‘require’ worked for the [...]

sittin’ calm after pres butan

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Last Monday, the Rails pseudo-content-management-system that I’ve been working on for the past nine months went live at the Yakima Herald.com, replacing a 4-year old system that ezmobius designed as his first Rails project.
This one’s brand-spankin’ new: Rails 2.0 from the get-go, fairly proper REST(where possible), using a dedicated SQL database, adherence to clean design(again, [...]

“you keep on preaching the high road, and we’ll take the low road”

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

In the wake of the Intel-OLPC fallout, the chief designer of the OLPC technologies asked Groklaw about ideas for an open hardware project. Even better, it made me aware that OLPC itself is still an ongoing process, rather than being cut-n-dried.
To me, this tickles my inner-struggling-hardware-geek in a really good way. Not just in Jepson’s [...]