The Rails Edge: Day One

The picture: tables with 8 geeks at each with laptops. Very little diversity.

Second session reviewed what has happened with Rails since 1.0. Plugins, migrations, RJS, etc. This was just what I needed because I tend to code in the 1.0 mode. It was also a review of upcoming sessions. So as the sessions continue I'm create a list of "better or required practices" that I'll post after the conference.

Instead of dinner last night I replace some "has_and_belongs_to_many" with "has_many .. :through =>". Made a few errors, but I learned. This turned out to be the perfect solution for a problem I was having.

The Rails Edge Conference: Expectations

I'll be attending the Rails Edge Conference in Reston, Virginia for the next few days. Hopefully this will get me to move Zlides.com and GreatUncle.com into the next phases. I find that I'm stuck doing things in the Ruby on Rails 1.0 way and I think this will get me to take advantage of the new approaches, the new deployments and the new practices that version 1.2 provides. I also have a couple of "translation into code" problems that I hope to get some help with. More on that later.

New Year So Remodeling

I've been working on redoing my personal homepage which was started about 10 years ago. So my web time has been spent on that and on my web applications like greatuncle.com. So expect some silence for a little while as I finish things up - not my strength.

Ten Predictions For 2007

1. Memory Stick Software
2. Web 2.0 Goes for Hobby Funding
3. AOL-Adobe-NewsCorp replace Amazon-Ebay-Apple which replaced Google-Microsoft-Yahoo
4. Intranet RSS Feeds
5. Digg Goes Bigger
6. Web Documents
7. Clickstream Contributer Content Overtakes Typed Contributions
8. New Site with Time Based Contributions Become Next Thing
9. Cell Phones Get New Name Beyond Smart
10. Web 2.0 Bubble Called, Misses Differences From Previous Bubble

Great Uncle

Years ago I had this idea for a web application. After working on it for weeks, I had to abandon it because I could not figure out the permissions. Now I have and in my spare time over the last two months, that is what I’ve been working on.

More later. GreatUncle.com: Never miss a family birthday again.

Don't be Fooled by the Beer Ape

Rolling Rock ain’t what is use to be. Beer Ape is interesting ad by Anheuser-Busch who now brews it on Bud lines in Newark. Not a very responsible business especially for he people in Latrobe, PA. Save Rolling Rock.

Stikkit beta

Just signed up for the beta of www.stikkit.com

Cobra Child Becoming Adult

Time to start looking at helping my daughter with health insurance now that she has been on Cobra for a year. This stuff is complicated even for a college education.

KKD and Messy World

Krisby Kream is a buy, says Kramer. Elections are suppose to be open to all, but we have laws to say who can vote. Rolling Stone runs an article on polluting the Antic to save Greenland. It is a messy world and somethings rise above and somethings need correcting. And more. Such is life.

Haloween Jokes 2006

Every year I ask the trick or treat kids for a joke. Have a joke, get a big candy bar; no joke, small candy bar. So every year I get more jokes.

Here are this year’s batch. Remember, kids are not politically correct.

• Why do blonds hate M&Ms? They are too hard to peel.
• Why did the pilot go to the dentist? To get his chopper fixed.
• A nun, a clownfish and a homeless person go into a bar with purple carpet. What did the nun say? I’d like a drink.
• What did zero say to eight? Love you belt  [ 0 8, get it?]
• What do you call a fly without wings? A walk.
• Why did the chicken cross the road? He didn’t know – he was a stupid chicken.
• Blue house is built with blue bricks. Red house is built with with red bricks. Orange house is build with orange bricks. Yellow house is built with yellow bricks. What is a green house built of? Glass.
• What do you call a fat, lazy squirrel laying on the ground? Ground meat.
• What do Michael Jackson and XBox have in common? Both are made of plastic and went from black to white.
• What did one tooth say to the other? We better get dressed up, the dentist is taking us out today.
• Plane crashes on the Canadian & US border. Where to they bury the survivors? They don’t bury survivors.
• You go into the bathroom as American. You leave the bathroom as American. What are you in the bathroom? European. [Say it.]