Jay McGavren's Journal

Folders suck.

Maybe I’ll be navigating around Rails projects in a more coordinated fashion eventually, but right now I’m finding myself doing a full-project search for a string I saw in the rendered page somewhere. I don’t have to worry about whether it occurred in a template or a partial (or someplace else it really shouldn’t be), I’m just taken to the right place.

Jef Raskin promoted tossing out folders and filenames and so forth in favor of just searching the text of documents. He argued they’re overhead that people don’t use anyway. And seeing the rise of Google and desktop search (not to mention witnessing my own behavior), I think I agree.

Need things to do with your new Flip Mino?

How about go to Six Flags, flagrantly violate their posted rules, and take it on the Goliath coaster?

So many of our websites and applications and business processes share at least some of the same functionality. So many of them have redundant implementations that aren’t versatile enough to re-use. If we could somehow reduce that redundancy… I think the benefits of the reduced maintenance cost would completely offset the drop in performance.

Waved bye to Lenny and Diana and resumed work after our holiday BBQ… Then had a good laugh when I scanned my Twitter feed…

enjoying the #integrum family holiday lunch, lots of little kiddos running around

realzing that @integrum peeps have lots of little boys..

In case there was any ambiguity, I don't want children.

Been playing DJ on the office jukebox with my 5-star songs for the past couple days… There were many nodyaheads and people signing along to my Audioslave and Ben Folds Five selections yesterday, so I guess I’ve got okay taste in music. Don’t think today’s Fluke songs went over as well, ‘cause someone switched it out at some point. Oh, well.