Latest News >> 2008-11-13

Well, DHH seems to be caught in a lie in his latest blog post on Rails myths so I feel I should correct it. An outright lie that Mongrel caused his 400 restarts/day problem. However, David must have forgotten that I have a full log of the chat where he admitted it, so let’s get into some nice clean truth for a change.

2008-11-11

I’m quickly coming to the end of my first semester in music school and am considering taking a consulting gig for the two month break we have. Not really sure what’s available these days, as I actually haven’t touched a computer for the entire semester.

2008-10-30

In this world there are these weird little dickheads who think that they have some kind of magical powers manipulating others to do their bidding. They spend their days making people around them dance like marionettes in a sick little play that only they find funny. The sad truth about manipulators is their machinations are only powerful and effective in their own mind.

2008-10-28

UPDATE: Read my follow-up post to this where I explain Matt is alright.

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.

I performed four songs as my goodbye tribute to all the suckage and awesomeness I found in Ruby. They were a big hit, and hopefully pissed off all the right people in all the right ways. Read my full recap and you can hear the songs, download the tracks, and remix them under a CC license.

That’s right, I felt my performance was so incredibly insane that I’m pulling a NIN and letting you, the reader, fuck up my talent in anyway you can. I want to be the Star Wars Kid of Ruby haters as my last conference present to the Interwebs.

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