Author Archive
Friday, December 12th, 2008
I’m Alive!
Wow, its been a long time since I wrote anything. I guess I haven’t done too much cool lately in programming or really much coding to think of it. But I have been working on some things…
Android! — I’ve been working on an android app with a friend … soon we can talk about [...]
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Not Doing It
I am not not not not doing it! I am not getting an iphone. The lower price is very very tempting… but I am not doing it. A friend of mine signed up for an apple developer account like hours after it opened — I asked him yesterday if he was approved and he [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Off the Grid
I had a pcmcia sierra wireless broadband card for my old laptop for the past 2 years , since I have a loooong commute and its just plain boring being off the grid. I am usually programming on the go and sometimes I need to look something up or ask a friend or install [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Git Peepcode Review
I’m watching the Git peepcode by Geoffrey Grosenbach and as usual with other peepcode it is very good. This is the ultimate in geek-tv. I swear, i will burn these to a DVD sometime so i can watch them on my tv!
Things I like about git so far:
- branching, since I [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Potluck
I’ve been doing a variety of things lately:
Playing with Android
I got the “Hello Android” beta book from Pragmatic Programmers — I am trying to remember its beta but its sort of hard to follow. Be prepared to download the source code for the book and compare to what the book has to see what is [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Hello Android
I’ve been hankering to try out programming for a device. I did a hello world app for my pocketpc with c++ years ago. Apparently it didn’t hold my interest cuz I never did much with it. I am not enthusiastic about the iphone and its developer requirements and restrictions (way to piss on [...]
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Congratulations on your first Django-powered page
Alright, ok! I am setting my ruby and rails down for a bit to give python and django a spin. I’ve been bored with programming lately and need to try something new. So what the heck! Lets see how this goes.
Since I am not a guy — I read the instructions first! (haha). I open [...]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Code Review: Rspec Tests
I am writing a rails application for my mom to enter her bakery orders for her business. The Order page has a form to search or add a new customer, so i can streamline the process as much as possible. In the Order create method, I either get a customer array or a customer ID.
Here's [...]
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Burned out! …. but hanging in there!
Lately I've been burned out on all things programming, even ruby. I need a break from the usual. I've been playing World of Warcraft. It appears as usual, i am late to the game. Everyone I talk to is "oh yeah! I used to play that" ... I was hoping I could find some of [...]
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Book Review, “Pro Active Record”
Published by Apress
By Kevin Marshall, Chad Pytel, Jon Yurek
Book Info
Sample Chapter: Ch. 01 - Introducing Active Record
Table of Contents
Years ago when I was in PHP Land (now I travel quite a bit more! haha), I strugged for months with how to write a good ORM . It was tough, because I wanted to abstract [...]
