Author Archive
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
GWT: Using trunk
Lately, I have been fascinated with Google Web Toolkit as of late. What you say, you love ruby but doing java?!!? My ruby friends will probably smack me but really i love all languages. The widgets and rpc stuff, that is pretty cool as well as learning how to do MVP. There are some new [...]
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
I like Tomatos. I like time.
In my constant battle to get stuff done and feel good about what I did, I am finding the Pomodoro Method very handy. Basically you set a timer for 25 mins, work unhindered for that time, then take a 5 minute break. Repeat 3 more times, then take a 15-20 min break. This has helped [...]
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Sunday, September 13th, 2009
WindyCityRails2009 was a blast!!
Even though I don’t do ruby at work, I do it for fun on weekends. I paid for my own self to go to the WindyCityRails conference and tutorial on Cucumber, RSpec Testing. It was well worth the money!! Not many things can get me to go up to Chicago early in the morning and [...]
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Cool Toys: GMail
I haven’t had a cool toys post about something web related in awhile. I got the idea for this kind post from a friend whom I told him something cool, and he said “HEY you need to share your cool toys!” It used to be it was cool to have @my-awesome-website.com email addresses. Having your [...]
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
How to get better at programming?
Sometime ago a co-worker asked me what my github name was. I had forgotten..I hadn’t used it in so long! He was surprised that I didn’t have any open source code out there! I said, umm..i haven’t written anything I think someone would want! I tend to start projects, work a bit on them and [...]
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Sunday, August 16th, 2009
Cool Toys – LED Art Kit
A bunch of guys at work started talking about electronics and I never had opportunity to ever do anything with electronics. It seems geeky enough right? I’ve been programming something since i was 13, why not? So not knowing anything, I looked for something Cool. I Found the LED Art Kit at MakerShed.com which was [...]
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Book Review: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Begininners
I got a copy of Computer Programming for Kids and other Beginners for review, I was interested because I have always thought that someday I would like to write a programming book for kids — I would have given my right arm to have this book as a kid! Here are some things I have [...]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Book Review(so far): The RSpec Book
This book is still in beta, but so far… I love it! Chapter 1 is a very brief overview of RSpec and Cucumber and in Chapter 2 you are shown some examples. This is Real Code That Works! You can type it in and run. That is awesome, I was so excited last night that [...]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Rolling on…
Not sure! I’m done with school for the summer and trying to decide on … – working on a site in rails (haven’t done much rails in the past year.. ::cry::) – learning more about GWT (Google Web Toolkit) – making an android app, i started a few but haven’t gotten very far – trying [...]
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Words Mean Things
I am trying to teach my husband Nick some programming. He has tried before but he always loses interest before we get more than a couple sessions. He finally found a problem he was interested in solving. He wants a program that will tell him the most efficient way to organize his vast dvd collection. [...]
