The Zyps presentation went pretty well. I got a lot of good feedback and encouragement. James Britt got the GUI up and running on Kubuntu (something that had eluded me thus far). Chris Matthieu wants me to record a screencast for Rubyology. David Koontz vowed to steal my behavior/action/condition setup and use it in Railgun (if I don’t steal his first).
Now if only it had been to a group of more than eight people… The change in location (now at the Rising Tide Software office) is partly responsible, I’m sure; people either couldn’t find it or didn’t want to trek the extra distance. Also, no one was able to connect to the dRuby server like I’d hoped.
Oh, well, it was a fun evening, regardless. Note to self - next time you order the teriyaki mushroom burger, have ‘em go easy on the teriyaki.
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Well, I was liking Copernic Desktop Search 2. But it just locked up my whole machine trying to preview an 8-meg plain-text log file (that I didn’t even intend to view).
Google Desktop has been failing me lately (not finding documents, demaninding too much precision in search terms, etc.), which is why I switched. But maybe the alternatives aren’t that much better…
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From: James Britt Date: Nov 6, 6:23 pm Subject: November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting (PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION!) To: Phoenix Ruby Users Group November Phoenix Ruby User Group Meeting Date: Monday, November 12, 2007 Time: 7:00pm Place: Rising Tide Software ... Topics: * A recap of the recent RubyConf 2007 by people who were *Actually There!* * A demo of the Zyps game library by Jay McGavren! * Maybe some other stuff!
I prepped a tutorial on the dRuby server, which I’ve copied here…
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Working on BreedAction, but I’m having some trouble…
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explorer.exe is back on...
I didn’t really see a noticeable performance improvement, and besides, it’s nice to be able to actually view the contents of a directory. When all my work can be done within one meta-document, I won’t need that ability anymore, but that day is a long way away.
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Spaces (and of course Time Machine) are probably the most interesting parts… No one else has implemented multiple desktops quite right yet. They don’t say whether a specific key combination can be assigned to always go to a specific workspace, though.
Read more...I shouldn’t have gone to work today with my cough, and Lenny shouldn’t have gone to school with his. Neither of us is in bad enough shape to stay home for our own sake, but I hope we don’t get anyone sick.
Read more...So with explorer.exe gone, Windows-R simply plops an “r” into the current window. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that today, instead of CapsLock-“open shell” like I’m supposed to be. This is going to be a hard habit to unlearn.
Someday, when all my scripts are reimplemented as selection processors, I’m going to laugh at how quaint all this seems.
Read more...Revamping some legacy processes to use my co-worker’s ORM… A lot of this amounts to busy-work.
A code generator would be complex, but it could be done, and it would definitely stave off carpal tunnel syndrome for me. Why, oh why are we rolling our own solution here?
Read more...Aza Raskin mentions in his Google talk that he often demonstrates killing explorer.exe and running off of just Enso… Seems to work pretty good so far, exceprt for the annoying hole at the bottom of the screen where my taskbar should be.
Been playing around with their Developer Prototype, but I’m having a lot of grief so far getting it to work with Ruby XMLRPC. The demo on the Wiki works fine, but I get communication errors with my own stuff. I’m sure I’d be done troubleshooting already if I had more time available…
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