Jay McGavren's Journal

2008-12-15

Diana of course went nuts on the avatar editor for XBox Live as soon as it was released, poring over makeup, glasses, shoes, and everything. I dread the day they release paid content for this thing - she’ll buy as many shoes as she has in the real world. And after she was done with her own avatar, she moved on…

XBox Live Family Portrait

Lenny’s as short as we could make him, but you get the idea.

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2008-12-11

Cucumber/Webrat...

Is it just me, or are Cucumber tests in combination with Webrat really brittle? I’m generating messages to go in my inbox, and they weren’t showing up because I forgot to make them “from” the current user. I can’t say:

Given I am on the messages page #BAD
And there are 4 messages #BAD

…because that would load a page with no messages on it. It has to be:

Given there are 4 messages
And I am on the messages page

Not as versatile as Cucumber advocates seem to be promising. Maybe I’ll get used to this kind of stuff over time, but right now I’m encountering/generating way too many head-scratching bugs to be productive.

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2008-12-09

Who We Are

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Jay's personal motto is to be vicariously lazy: he believes he can make everyone's lives easier through software development. Though he enjoys coding in pure Ruby, his allergy to configuration files led him to Rails.

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2008-12-09

After 1 level of a Gemini demo game…

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I haven’t laughed that hard in weeks…

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2008-12-07

Gate to the Star Road 1.0

Been sitting on four Super Mario World level edits since the release of the Lunar Magic level editor back in 2000. Stumbled across a review of Lunar Magic on the Hak5 podcast a couple weeks ago, which led me to a site devoted to SMW edits. Seems like a good time to do a release.

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Gate to the Star Road 1.0

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