Jay McGavren’s Journal

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So, looking up Dr. Horrible last night led me to find a whole slew of great web video series:

The Guild
Retarded Policeman
Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show (haven’t fully watched this yet, but it seems promising)

I’ll be keeping an eye on these to see if they monetize themselves successfully. If even they can’t, I’m declaring internet video still not ready for prime time.

jay@MIDORI:D:\applications\InstantRails-2.0-win\rails_apps\test
$ ruby script/generate scaffold Recipe title:string instructions:string

Man, you miss out on a lot if you’re following Rails 1.0 tutorials. In fact, I tried setting up on Heroku and gave up, tried setting up on DreamHost and gave up, and was about to give up on InstantRails as well. Wonder how much of that was due to 1.0/2.0 incompatibilities?

NerdsOfAFeather.com is taken by a squatter. How %$#@ing clever do I have to be to get a cool domain name?!

Maybe I just need to get rid of this fixation on getting a .com… Surely laymen know about .org, .net, and .us by now…

Sitting here looking at the Civic’s odometer - 100,004 miles. It made it (no thanks to me), and is probably good for another 100,000.

This appeared in the business case for document for a new automated process…

Today [product] data is entered manually, input individually to [two separate systems], consuming a minimum of four full-time employees per work day.

“My God, it ate Phil! He’s barely completed training!”

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…it’s important to remember that attributes will not use custom attribute readers when accessing its values, but attributes= (which lets you do mass assignment) does invoke custom attribute writers.

>> Inflector.pluralize "virus"
"viri"
>> Inflector.pluralize "intarweb"
"intarwebs"

Sooo tired… The baby actually does pretty good about sleeping in these days. But knowing he could wake up at 4 AM the morning I’m scheduled for an interview or to give a talk makes me think twice when scheduling such things.

Maybe if he just went to a sitter’s house by default when there’s an important appointment the next day?