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notes from GoRuCo2008
I’m seeing a lot of interesting stuff at GoRuCo and I was going to start taking notes in textmate but I decided to just put them here on my blog instead.
Chris Wanstrath, parse tree
Sake, rake tasks that you can use between different projects.
Cheat — command line interface for looking up documentation. Like ‘man’ for ruby […]
VHS or Beta
I went with Jenny to see VHS or Beta at the Highline Ballroom last night. I’ve been a fan of VHSOB since discovering them in the Indie/Rock Playlist for November ‘07. Big surprise seeing them live was that they are very jammy. Oh, and a lot of their songs sound very similar.
My […]
Google App Engine
I’ve really been enjoying messing around with ruby and rails lately and all the new side projects I’ve been tackling are written in ruby. Trouble is, I can’t actually launch any of them on the hosting provider that I use, hostgo (not strongly recommended; look elsewhere), because they don’t let me run rails or […]
checking table existence in Rails’ migrations
I just refactored a table and in the migration I created for it I first need to drop the table and then create it from scratch, so the first line of self.up is drop_table :table_name. But when I go back and forth over that migration, the second time around the table doesn’t exist (because […]
Asimov would be proud…
Robots seem to be getting awesome again.
Evidence:
Does this robot-assisted suicide conflict with the three laws of robotics?
Puddleblog on Kottke
Kottke linked to our collaborative work puddleblog yesterday. Cool.
Guest Blogging
Today I’m making a guest post to my friend Andrea’s blog, Some Things I Know. I know Andrea from college and every Friday she has a “Friend Friday” post, where a friend of hers posts an update. I’m excited to be included and I’ll link to the post here after she puts it […]
Bedouin Soundclash @ Knitting Factory
Bedouin Soundclash @ Knitting Factory
For Rob’s birthday party, we went out in Tribeca and then saw Bedouin Soundclash play the Knitting Factory. I had never heard of them before about a week ago, but I was really impressed by their show. They are reggae-ish, with a little punk in there. Their sound, […]
Magnetic fields
I scored a last-minute ticket to see the Magnetic Fields at Town Hall last night. It was a really subdued, acoustic show. There was a lot of conversation among the band members, and the whole thing felt like some sort of music-enhanced fireside chat.
I enjoyed the show, but I wanted them […]
Lunar eclipse
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Lunar eclipse, originally uploaded by bantic.
Last night there was a total lunar eclipse that was visible from North and South America. Friends of mine in Seattle saw it, I saw it in NYC, and […]
