Where Are The Wise Men?

Some kind soul was kind enough to give me an invite to Evernote. The features seem cool, such as:A Note management program for Windows and Mac.A somewhat limited Web versionThe Windows client doesn’t require Administrator rights, so I can install it at work!You can send photos from your cell phone camera and send it [...]

Exhibit A:

Passenger solves this problem by implementing user switching. A Rails application is started as the owner of the file config/environment.rb. So if /home/webapps/foo/config/environment.rb is owned by joe, then Passenger will launch the corresponding Rails application as joe as well. It took two experienced programmers an hour and a half to figure this out. I [...]

We use Cobertura inside our continuous integration system and I have spent the last two hours trying to figure out why a couple value objects where showing 0% coverage because, you know, they actually had tests written for them. Because I just wrote the tests!

After some investigation, I discovered the packages of these objects were [...]

It’s been almost two weeks since I have posted anything. Must be a new record. But it’s not like I haven’t been doing anything. Here is an update:

Leah started soccer three weeks ago. It’s about time I posted something — the season is half done!  Leah loves it [...]

Before my last post, I should have made this post. So let us time shift a bit . . .

When I fired up Intellij on Monday, it told me that there are only 6 days left of my trial. Uh-oh. And we were told that our free license from No Fluff would take a [...]

 So I was coding away in Intellij, and did my Ctrl-Click thing to bring up a method in another class, and look what I see:

So I click on “Update Project”, I get the latest from SVN, and I move on with my life.

This, my friends, is coding bliss.

I sacrificed my weekend to attend Omaha’s No Fluff Just Stuff.  And I had a great time.  Some of my highlights:

 I saw most of Ken Sipe’s talks, mostly because everything he talked about was applicable to me.  My favorites of his were Iteration 0 (starting off on an Agile project) and [...]

Hello world! Long time, no blog! A lot happening, though. Lots. Much. But are they things worth writing about? Some of them, but not many.

Matt recently lent me a copy of The Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris and while I think that Ferris is an arrogant jerk, I think the [...]