I’m getting ready for a quiet New Year’s Eve at home with the family. This will be the first one in recent memory where I may actually remember what happened the next morning. Create Your Own Motivator Poster – I’m a big fan of the humorous anti-motivational posters that you can find on places like [...]
Browsing Posts published in December, 2008
If you’re looking for an external, non-open source home for your code or a light-weight, web-based project management tool, I highly recommend using Unfuddle. Actually, up until recently I wasn’t all that crazy about this site. We had been using it at work for the last year as a project management tool for external clients [...]
Here are a few links to distract you from all the holiday family dysfunction. IT Industry Revolutionised By Labour Saving Device – Leon Bambrick (a.k.a Secret Geek) serves up a wickedly funny post that pokes fun at SysAdmins…<excerpt>”The ‘self-clicking’ “next” button is set to revolutionize how computer users ‘Get Things Done’ — but a wave [...]
Apparently someone tipped Santa off that I like the TV show the Office. His elf spies are everywhere! Happy Holidays from CaffeinatedCoder and his little pre-caffeinated helper Sofia. She is also modeling one of her Christmas presents in the picture above, a most excellent pair of cow pajamas.
I’ve spent most of my free time over the last 3 months (…and by free time I mean after everyone else has gone to bed) building DosPecesCreations.com, which is a small e-commerce application for my wife’s new jewelry business. I am a .NET developer by day, but I wrote the app in Ruby on Rails. [...]
What better way to unwind after a long day of dealing with annoying car salesmen than to catch up on a little blog reading? Having no car payments was nice while it lasted. Dang icy roads…sigh. The Other Half of ‘Artists Ship‘ – A great postessay by Paul Graham about the hidden costs of excessive [...]
Only 6 more days until Christmas and 5 more days until I start shopping. Here are some good reads to keep you busy while you procrastinate on your shopping. Oxite – Oh Dear Lord Why?! – Oxite is blogging engine built on the new MS MVC Framework that Microsoft recently released as a sample app. [...]
I admit that the title is slightly misleading. There will obviously never be meaningful peace between the Microtards and Macophiles. Nevertheless, if you are currently languishing under an oppressive Visual Source Safe regime, then I hope to inspire you to rally your coworkers and end the source control tyranny once and for all. By switching [...]
I recently deployed my first Rails app into production, so I have Ruby on the brain. Here’s some interesting posts I stumbled across from the Rails world recently that .NET’ers might find interesting. The Opposite of Momentum – An interesting perspective on the current state of Ruby on Rails according to a veteran Rubyist. The [...]
My heart skipped a few beats the other day due to that awful hard drive clicking sound that usually precedes a hard disk failure. So, in honor of the impending machine rebuild that I will likely face soon, I thought I would create my own essential tool list to document my current thoughts on the [...]
