things i learned the hard way | V.
I have models and controllers and database tables and :has_many and :belongs_to all tying it together with ActiveRecord but I wanted to take one column of data from each row that was related to one of my other models through a has many relationship. Boy did I make it a lot harder than it needed to be.
i'm a winner -- holy s%!t
My ‘bird flu’ entry captured me 6th place in the typo theme contest. Geoffrey deserves a huge round of applause for all the hard work he managed to fit in around business demands and trans-global flights to run a pretty kick ass contest! And he produces the podcast, does the man ever sleep?!
Also deserving of mad props are the sponsors of the contest and the suite of enticing prizes they offered up as inspiration/motivation:
- Site5 Hosting
- Planet Argon Hosting
- Ma.gnolia Social Bookmarking
- The Pragmatic Programmers
- The Iconfactory
- Macromates
- Tables Turned
I’m making the psd of my design available for download (right/control click & save file) for no other reason besides that I can. Take it and do what you will. It is yours.
The typo theme that started it all: Bird Flu
holy slow sudo port install mod_ruby
Every time I challenge the silicon gods by installing yet another demanding software package on my powerbook G3 I always start by consciously dismissing the age and condition of the laptop. The machine is 6 years old, has 386mb of ram, a 9 gig hard drive, a 500mHz processor, and a first generation airport card. After installing tiger and developer tools there is a little under 2gb of disk space left.
There is a ghost impression of the keyboard etched into the surface of the LCD screen from the oil left on the keys by my fingers. I have dropped, sat on, stepped on, rolled over, spit on, slammed shut, forced open, poked, prodded, wedged, and pried loose this poor machine during the 6 years, 2 SXSW’s, many business trips, not as many vacations, and 6 operating system upgrades of it’s life.
Every time I do something beyond surf the web on grandpa pismo and it doesn’t start smoking or tell me to hold the power button down in 5 different languages I experience a trepid euphoria not unlike that experienced by a man who only hears the metallic click of the firing pin during a game of russian roulette.
Around minute 30 of hour 2 of installing mod_ruby using darwin ports (just to see if I could) I started to get nervous. I was using a wireless connection, the elderly (original) battery was at 50% and sinking and I was having a hard time staying awake. it was 2:30 a.m. which is actually 3:30 am to my internal clock seeing as we’re only a few days in to the daylight savings time switch.
Being the dedicated, task focused person I am I… fell asleep.
I have yet to assess the outcome of this latest haphazard command line escapade.
There is a ghost impression of the keyboard etched into the surface of the LCD screen from the oil left on the keys by my fingers. I have dropped, sat on, stepped on, rolled over, spit on, slammed shut, forced open, poked, prodded, wedged, and pried loose this poor machine during the 6 years, 2 SXSW’s, many business trips, not as many vacations, and 6 operating system upgrades of it’s life.Every time I do something beyond surf the web on grandpa pismo and it doesn’t start smoking or tell me to hold the power button down in 5 different languages I experience a trepid euphoria not unlike that experienced by a man who only hears the metallic click of the firing pin during a game of russian roulette.
Around minute 30 of hour 2 of installing mod_ruby using darwin ports (just to see if I could) I started to get nervous. I was using a wireless connection, the elderly (original) battery was at 50% and sinking and I was having a hard time staying awake. it was 2:30 a.m. which is actually 3:30 am to my internal clock seeing as we’re only a few days in to the daylight savings time switch.
Being the dedicated, task focused person I am I… fell asleep.
I have yet to assess the outcome of this latest haphazard command line escapade.