Jay McGavren's Journal

Rubyscript2exe and NSIS...

I also said I’d present on rubyscript2exe, which is likely to turn into a NSIS tutorial as well.

Here’s a quick copy-paste from a build session…

Doodle, Distilled...

Gonna give a brief presentation on Doodle to the Ruby Users Group on Monday. While some folks can just wing it, I needed to prepare notes. The need for brevity and a large font for the projector requires a short and sweet summary.

In hopes of helping others, here’s what I’ve got…

Another phrase I never thought I'd type...

Arrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!

I hateHaTeHATE this framework!!!! I initialized several data sets repeatedly for safety, because if I failed to at any point, they would silently return empty lists.

Well, the repeat initializations are hitting the database repeatedly and redundantly. So instead, I have to scramble around the bits of this 1500-line class (which I didn’t want to make that big, but had to for overhead reasons) and regroup the updates by data set. All while my boss is (still) tapping his foot.

Eclipse is running so goddamn slow under the weight of this gigantic library that I can’t go to declarations. Hell, I can’t even type without a 10-second delay.

I just… ErrrrrRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!!

A senior analyst here at work didn’t seem too keen on my upgrading Fedora, since the rest of the team is still using version 5. Guess Java runs willingly no matter how old your distro is.

Well, he just borrowed my DVD so he could upgrade his own machine. We’ll modernize this place yet, hopefully.