Five years ago I left the world of contracting and reentered the world of the full time employee, and I enjoyed every minute of it (well, almost). Now fast forward five years and I find myself once again at a crossroads. Do I continue on as an FTE or do I become a contractor, and play the field, so to speak? Looks like I'm going to go with the hired gun route for a little while, but that's not really the point of this post.
During the past week or so I've spoken with many great …
- Simone Carletti's Blog: Relative time... when the time does matter
- Lance: The Future of Technical Recruiting Agencies
- Rails on the Run - Home: Ruby developers don't scale
- The Life Of A Radar: When Rails 3 is Due
When I was 11 I made my very first recording. It was 1987 and the technology choices for recording were, how to put this, almost non-existant. So I did what any smart 11 year old would do, I improvised! Let me walk you through the history of my recording career. Don't worry, I'll make it brief.
The Boom Box.
I had a two cassette boom box, it was a beast of a machine. It was a ‘portable' machine, meaning that it took 8 D batteries and a burly man named Attila to carry it. …
- skwpspace: musings on ruby, rails, software by Yan Pritzker: Just good enough
- Derek Powazek: Why Everything Sucks, Why That's Awesome, and How It's Changing Us
- Global Nerdy: This Week on "Ignite Your Coding": Uncle Bob!
- Lindsay Holmwood - auxesis' musings: Continuum
Mark Bates shows how to use Formtastic in your views.
Wesley Beary posts on the Engine Yard blog about what makes a good library.
TDD in Objective-C with MacRuby
Joshua Ballanco walks through creating a pig latin translator in objective c using MacRuby to TDD.
Sunspot exposes all of Solr's most powerful search features using an API of elegant DSLs. That means robust, flexible fulltext search with no …
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #564
Mark Bates, over on the Meta Bates blog, introduces Warp Drive which he describes as "what Rails Engines wish they could be, and more!" A Warp Drive is a standard, full featured, Rails application that you can easily bundle up into a Ruby Gem, and include into another Rails app.
Nathan Esquenazi has posted some common cap recipes on his GitHub account. There are recipes for Ruby, Passenger, Memcache, DelayedJob and more.
iPhone …
- MetaSkills.net - Home: The Ultimate OS X Snow Leopard Stack For Rails Development - x86_64, MacPorts, Ruby 1.8/1.9, SQL Server, SQLite3, MySQL & More
- YouTube Videos matching query: rubyonrails: Ruby on Rails Gem validates_blacklist
- Litany Against Fear: Professional Ruby Conference Notes
- ronin coder: Django for Rails devs
- i am ruinous: Why Merb Becoming Rails 3 is a Good Thing
- Think in code - Home: Rails Hackathon in Madrid
Quite often I get asked why don't I blog more? Why don't I tweet more? Why don't I _fill in the blank_ more. The answer is I'm a busy man. I'm the CTO for a pre-funding startup, www.shortbord.com , the father of two adorable little boys, the lead singer of a Boston-based band, www.myspace.com/colawarvets , and that's just the big stuff! I have to prioritize what I can spend my time on, and unfortunately some of my open source projects are the first to get the ax.
- amazing development: Android G1 gprs setup for simyo with 1gb data plan
I've always been a big proponent of Ruby 1.9, I make no bones about it. My question is why wouldn't you be? It's faster, more powerful, easier to use, and makes things a lot clearer and cleaner than 1.8. So why then are pretty much all of us still running our applications on 1.8.x? Great question, and as far as I can tell there is really only 1 answer.
That answer? Because no one else is. It's stupid really, but it's the truth. We're all afraid to run our applications …
- Mike Perham: Event-Driven Applications
- Me Dev, You Jane: Edging your way towards Ruby 1.9.1 and Rails 3.0pre
- Dead Programmer Society: Sparkline Some Interest With Ruby on Rails
- a work on process: Help me clear some shelves?
- RubyLearning Blog: RPCFN: Short Circuit (#3)
- igvita.com: Advanced Messaging & Routing with AMQP
Moving @ shortbord into our new offices today! Pretty darn excited. I feel like we're growing up. #
Ended up staying home to watch the kids instead of helping to move @ shortbord into our new offices. #
Trying to watch ET with the boys. It's proving more difficult than you think. #
Stupid ass groundhog. What does he know! #
Today is a Willie Nelson day in the development wing of the new @ shortbord offices. #
Lately I feel my music has been quite heavily influenced by the musical stylings of Mr. Alan Thicke. #
I love working at @ shortbord #
Just finished reviewing @ hal_fulton proposal for the Ruby Way 3rd edition. Can't wait to read the actual book! #
Worst nights sleep in ages. Leo was up all night and Dylan wanted to sleep with us leaving me with 6" of bed! #
Excited about Apples big announcement today. iPhone OS …
- GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS: After 35 Robot Years, The New thoughtbot.com Is Here!
RT @ billjanovitz: How did Scott Brown become the change candidate? Nothing could be further from the truth. # masen http://bit.ly/7wKSs2 #
RT: Bill Janovitz She ran a bad campaign. But this guy would simply be a travesty. http://bit.ly/7LyOP9 #
Boston Globe: Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying - http://bit.ly/7LyOP9 #
This state is one of the best in the nation, & that's due to people …
If Hoth had a frozen moon than that moon would be warmer than my office right now. #
I absolutely love it when the cleaners come! #
Wow. I can't believe how much work I got done today. I love a good productive day. It lifts the spirits. #
Had a dream last night that I was at @ cheever house and played strip poker with Ellen Page and Bruce Springsteen. Don't worry, I won. #
I have to say I do really enjoy using named_scopes …