Flashback to February 4, 1998! Here are a couple of videos that I stumbled upon on my machine recently. These are an extraordinary walk down memory lane for me, back to the early days of starting BigCharts.com. We were still very early in the development BigCharts. There were …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Flashback: BigCharts on CNBCI graduated! Or, well, at least I got the certificate! I finally took the plunge this week and took Rails Studio after thinking about it many times. I blogged a day-by-day account – day 1, day 2, day 3. It’s been a long, long time since I’ve coded anything significant and I’m …
Keep reading · 5 minutes: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Graduate!Today was the last day of Rails Studio. Dave and Mike took us through the finish line with a packed syllabus. We took our event application all the way through deployment. Our final day was a little rushed. I would guess we had fallen about an hour behind the agenda. We covered …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 3I’m the newest member into a small book club that only counts tech geeks in its membership. The first book I read in the club was Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence. I was really excited to read this since I’ve been to Tufte’s lecture twice before but I will sheepishly admit that …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Beautiful EvidenceToday was day two of Rails Studio. Dave Thomas and Mike Clark really ramped up the fire hose today. We continued working on our project site and today worked through creating our own forms, working through ActiveRecord and creating relational mappings and passing things around …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 2I’ve been diving big into Ruby on Rails this week with this class I’m taking. One of the things I found right away is you need to have the Rails API documentation very handy. The main site is api.rubyonrails.com, and frankly it’s horrible. Luckily there is a great alternative at …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Rails API using Fluid SSBI’m in Denver today for the first of three days of Rails Studio. Rails Studio is one of the Pragmatic Studio classes offered by Pragmatic Programmers. This class is being taught by Dave Thomas and Mike Clark. I really enjoyed our first day. I was a little surprised by how many …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Pragmatic Studio: Rails Studio Day 1So far me managing my own VPS on Slicehost is not outperforming Dreamhost. Problem is the guy at the keys I think. 😕
I haven’t been posting much the last couple of weeks. My travel schedule has been a bit higher than normal, which you would think could lead to more posts but actually is the opposite. Plus, all of my “blog time” has been spent lately getting ready to move my websites to a new …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Quiet LatelyHaving a frustrating time trying to export a movie out of ScreenFlow.
I’m totally impressed with how well done Slicehost tutorials are written. Very helpful. You’re actually smarter after following them.
Just moved one of my sites over to Slicehost. Now I wait for the DNS records to expire.
Just reconfigured PCI-e lanes to get a bit more performance. Afraid to go to slot 4 since it’s right next to the hard drives. Oh well.
String at awe at my now triple display Mac Pro. Ohhhh…
Using the optical drive on my MacBook Pro and totally shocked about doing it.
