Jay McGavren's Journal

Here’s where my Safari Bookshelf sits at the moment:

Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets By Julian Smart; Kevin Hock; Stefan Csomor Design Patterns in Ruby By Russ Olsen Ruby on Rails: Up and Running By Bruce A. Tate; Curt Hibbs The Rails Way By Obie Fernandez The Ruby Way: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming, Second Edition By Hal Fulton

I’m actually pretty much done with the wxWidgets and Rails: Up and Running books, but I generally don’t delete books until I need the shelf slots. I retrieved The Rails Way because I’m not too pleased with the organization of the Rails: Up and Running book, and besides, I need a reference more than a tutorial now.

Gonna play with my new “purchases” starting tonight, so look for impressions in the coming weeks.

Omaha

Iz Izzy!

Enter the Nate

Jeremy Loves Mexican Juices

twtr is gud

This should save me some coding…

jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work
$ gem install twtr
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency highline? [Yn]  y
Successfully installed twtr-0.1.4
...

jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work
$ twtr setting
>> C:/Documents and Settings/jmcgavre/twtr/twtr.yml
Edit twtr config? [y/N]:y
Twitter username: jaymcgavren
...

jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work
$ twtr ft
jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.)
joshknowles: Should I be using git pull --rebase & git push or should I doing my development on a branch and pulling/merging with master?
...

jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work
$ twtr rp
chrismatthieu: @jaymcgavren you rock!  The htmlentities ruby gem was *exactly* what I needed!  Thank you.
joshknowles: @jaymcgavren thanks!


jmcgavre@JMCGAVREN:C:work
$ twtr up -m "Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far."
jaymcgavren: Testing twtr command line client (sudo gem install twtr)... Nice so far.
jaymcgavren: @kstaken You should have Twitter SMS your phone so that you can never escape from it. :) (I'm not reading much either.)
...

API available for all the above, too.

Here at Gangplank hack night, and in the first 60 minutes I participated in an unexpected podcast and met my first angel investor (didn’t have an elevator pitch for him, but I gave myself a good introduction).

Not bad for the space of an hour. I like this place!

It’s about 6 AM, the morning after Dad and Ruth’s wedding. It was very successful. Nice ceremony and a beautiful, beautiful reception, they rented out Lauritzen Gardens in Omaha, got a string quartet, DJ, all that good stuff.

We retired to Glen and April’s with John and Lacey and cousin Chuck, just sitting out by the fire pit and yakking away. A really nice time, but unfortunately now we have to be up in time to get to an 11:30 AM brunch and we’re probably gonna be tired as hell. Oh, well I had a nice time and it’s well worth it.