Archives for the 'general' Category
Year in Cities 2009
Here are the lists for 2006, 2007, and 2008.
January
St John, USVI
Salt Lake City, UT
Logan, UT*
Washington, DC
Brooklyn, NY
February
Edinburgh, UK*
March
Edinburgh, UK*
April
New Haven, CT
May
Barcelona, Spain
Gualala, CA
Garberville, CA
Arcata, CA
Crescent City, CA
Gold Beach, OR
Coos Bay, OR
Portland, OR
Seattle, WA
June
Nashville, TN
Bovina, NY*
July
Logan, UT*
October
Berkshires, MA
November
Bovina, NY*
Atlanta, GA
Logan, UT
December
St John, USVI*
My talk at Scotland On Rails
I had the opportunity to speak at Scotland on Rails last weekend. My talk was called “Who Needs Photoshop? Creative Image Manipulation using Ruby.” It was my first time giving a talk at a serious conference and I really enjoyed myself although I was pretty nervous leading up to it. The conference [...]
opencv ruby gem — for mac os x
I made some improvements to the ruby-opencv gem on github and have released my own version. The github page has some extensive installation instructions for getting OpenCV running on Mac OS X.
How to give an Ignite Talk
Whoo, I gave a talk at Ignite NYC last night. The talk was incredibly fun and I had a great time, but it was also really challenging. The rules are: you get exactly 20 slides and they each auto advance after 15 seconds for a total 5 minute talk. On the face of it, a [...]
1-year anniversary of tattoo
Today is the 1-year anniversary of me getting a tattoo.
Tattoo from bantic on Vimeo.
the greenpoint police stole my bike tire
In late November, about 3 in the morning one Saturday night, someone tried to steal the back tire off my bike, which was locked up outside my apartment. A good samaritan hipster couple who were walking on the street saw what was going down and the girl’s boyfriend physically held the thief down long [...]
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 [...]
