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May 30, 2006 @ 01:12 AM

Well, I suppose that’s just the way it goes.

I’ve been hacking apart the rjs-assertions plugin in an effort to fix several serious usage and code concerns I had. But this morning I came across Kevin Clark’s post announcing his new rjs testing plugin.

Kevin’s plugin is masterfully developed and does the job very well. While it’s missing a couple features I want, I would have a hard time recommending my plugin over his at this point.

I’m not sure what this means for rjs-assertions. If I complete my re-write, it will end up looking nearly identical to Kevin’s project. On the other hand, the code in rjs-assertions is slightly embarassing, and was never intended to be a long-term representation of my Ruby skills. For that reason alone, I may continue rewriting rjs-assertions.

We’ll see!

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Happy Memorial Day!

May 29, 2006 @ 02:45 PM

Hopefully you all had good weekends! Mine was pretty nice. Worked on a couple Rails products on Saturday and today (Monday). Little rest for Ruby developers these days.

Sunday was a great day. My family came over to our place for dinner, Jessica and I cooked a chicken dinner that was quite wonderful, if I may say so myself. We had great conversation, great food, good wine… a good time.

I found this photo Jess took of me working on a project… if you ever wondered what I do, this is pretty much it:

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Dell moves into retail, Apple moves into shoes? (UPDATED)

May 23, 2006 @ 08:53 AM

I just wanted to comment on a couple of recent happenings.

First, apparently Dell is going to give retail a shot. Dell has always been opposed to the idea, so this represents an interesting new change of opinion by the company. Of course, in Dell fashion, they’ve managed to forget one important detail… the inventory. Yup, you won’t actually be able to BUY anything at these stores.

Second, did you catch the Nike + iPod announcement earlier today? Forgetting for a moment that it’s just strange, check out the marketing video made for the announcement. Those of you residing in Portland ~~- lucky bastards -~~ will recognize the landscape. Jamison Square, the Gregory building, Ira Keller Fountain, etc…

UPDATE:

Just to prove my point…

Nike+ Commercial:

Jessica and I in Portland:

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Wanna buy a domain name?

May 20, 2006 @ 04:09 AM

Peat Bakke of peat.org mentioned LeapFish on his blog recently, so I checked out some of the valuations on some domain names I currently possess. Of course, the valuations of BrastenSager.com and Nagilum.com don’t matter much, because I need them. But if anyone wants to pay LeapFish’s appraisal on any of the following, I’ll entertain the idea. ;)

Creativers.com – $15,900
DellRumors.com – $14,400
CellFlow.com – $13,500
GrowNext.com – $12,150
SuperRuby.com – $9,600

Any takers? :)

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Catch-up

May 15, 2006 @ 06:09 AM

I’m back!

Sorry for the delay in writing. I ran into a bug that prevented me from writing new articles on my blog. I’m not sure if the bug was causing by Typo or Rails, but I had to make a fix in Rail’s caching mechanism to get Typo’s administration screen functional again. During that time, reading the articles and commenting continued to function. Odd stuff.

Anyway, nothing new to report at the moment. It’s 80 degrees here in Seattle, and I live in a south-facing unit 3 stories up with no air conditioning. This has a tendency of turning our place into a solar-powered furnace. To give you an idea, we’ve never turned on the heat in our place. Seattle’s not a hot city, but we ended up opening the windows most of the winter. You’d think being a couple hundred feet away from Lake Washington would cool the place down, but…

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New Kid on the Block

Happy Memorial Day!

Dell moves into retail, Apple moves into shoes? (UPDATED)

Wanna buy a domain name?

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