Latest News >> 2008-08-06

Well, I’ll be at DefCon this year, and I always try to do something fun for the conferences I attend.

2008-08-01

Well looks like my rant about the state of open source feed readers hit some sites, so I should put in a few clarifications so people understand what I was looking for more specifically. I’ll do it by answering several of the questions people sent me.

2008-07-20

RubyFringe was my last Ruby conference and it was the best conference to go out on. Everything about RubyFringe was great. It was well organized, contained eclectic talks, and supported the weirdness that’s usually hidden at the other conferences.

2008-06-25

I’ve been completely fed up with news/feed/rss/atom readers these days. I use Linux as my primary operating system, and I only have a few feeds that I want to rip through quick so I can get to reading the content. Yet, trying to find a reader that doesn’t suck donkey balls has been a chore.

08/18/06

Self Destruction Is Cleansing

Well I was looking at some templates I could grab for free and trying a few of them out when I typed the greatest command you could type at 7am on a Sunday:

rm -rf src

It rolls right off the tongue “remove all source”. A programmer’s worst nightmare manifested in the form of three words.

And there went my blog. I have backups of everything but I decided to take this as a chance to really just redo the whole thing. It’d been nearly a year since I last updated it and there was a few things I wanted to try.

So after about a month of tinkering and playing with the organization, resurrecting the important content, and coming up with a nasty little script that summarizes all the different essays, I have this.

Enjoy, and there’s more to come.