Projectionist: A tumblelog

Thu May 31

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I Would Rather Be A Jazz Programmer

Chad literally was.

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Tip Apple logo key combination

Option Shift K

Wed May 30

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“ Anything you can do, I can do meta. ”

Patrick Ewing

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Annie Oakley shooting glass spheres

Tue May 29

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LOLCODE

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?
	AWSUM THX
		VISIBLE FILE
	O NOES
		INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
KTHXBYE

Mon May 28

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Le Grand Content – made from the diagrams found at indexed

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Sat May 26

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#rails-contrib

bitsweat: 93 new tickets, 115 patches, and 1809 ticket changes by 171 people since RailsConf started 1 week ago :)

codahale: Geez, now the *activity*'s making me nervous.

Fri May 25

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Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries

Thu May 24

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Out the kitchen window

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“ You are an enigma wrapped in a clean API. ”

Patrick to Marcel

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Rails core

Jeremy K. - wow, Django dude scored a million dollar grant

Rick O. - for what?

Marcel M. - http://www.newschallenge.org/release.php

Marcel M. - to make sites like chicagocrime for a bunch of cities

Jeremy K. - emailed him suggesting he try Rails for them

Marcel M. - did you reallY?

Jeremy K. - heh yeah he has a feedback form on his site :)

Rick O. - oh no you didnt</ghetto-girl>

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“

cont.c: support callcc which everyone love. incomplete. please give me bug reports.

”

ko1

Wed May 23

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Tip Olive oil and lemon juice

When preparing a simple salad dressing, try replacing vinegar with lemon juice. Half a lemon is sufficient for at least two people.

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Kelly and Chad on the Oregon Coast

Tue May 22

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“ Good art is a kind of magic. It does magical things for both artist and audience. We can have long polysyllabic arguments about how to describe the way this magic works, but the plain fact is that good art is magical and precious and cool. ”

David Foster Wallace in a September 1996 letter to Harper’s

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Tip Build a Bat House

Bats are good neighbors to have around. A single brown bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes in one hour. A bat house will keep them coming back.

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Garage through a screen door

Sat May 19

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“ The big alcoholic beverage is necessary compared to the army bedspread. ”

BabelFish and a Korean RailsConf article is a questionable decision

Thu May 17

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Sam and Thomas at RailsConf

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Tue May 15

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Hammock beneath the fig tree

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“ And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow. ”

William Butler Yeats in The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Mon May 14

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Four Tet

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“ Hey lady, meet my mum and dad. You’re a strange aberration in this land of potted plants. ”

Stuart Murdoch in Your Cover’s Blown

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To ghost ride, frequently used in the context of “ghost riding the whip” (a “whip” being a vehicle) or simply ghostin’, is when a person puts the car in neutral or allows it to idle and then the driver (and passengers) of a vehicle exit while it is still rolling and dance beside it or on the hood or roof.

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Rails core

Nicholas S. - btw, another rails2 change: consider making application.rb application_controller.rb

Michael K. - yagni, special cases littered throughout your code are cool

Scott B. - didn't it used to be application_controller.rb ?

Michael K. - shut up grandpa

Michael K. - no one cares about the war

Sun May 13

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Welcome to Seaside

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Lord Whimsy is ready for summer

Sat May 12

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Homewrecker

Nick Lowe

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Verifier (from a rule engine)

# Encapsulates some object and executes expressions
# in the context of that object tracking the result 
# of the evaluation. As soon as an expression is 
# false, the verification fails.
#
#   verification = Verifier.new('Marcel') do
#     try { size == 6 } # Passes
#     try { size == 5 } # Fails
#     try { raise }     # Doesn't get here
#   end
#
#   verification.verify
#   => false
class Verifier
  class FailedVerification < Exception
  end
  
  class << self
    def verify(object, &block)
      new(object, &block).verify
    end
  end
  
  attr_reader :object, :results, :block
  def initialize(object, &block)
    @object   = object
    @results  = []
    @verified = false
    @block    = block
  end
  
  def verified?
    @verified && results.all?
  end
  
  def verify
    instance_eval(&block)
    @verified = true
  rescue FailedVerification
    false
  end
  
  def try(&block)
    results << object.instance_exec(&block)
    raise FailedVerification if results.last == false
  end
end

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Chantaburi No. 1

Designing a Stinkless Durian

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1 2 3 4 by Feist

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Wedding down time

Fri May 11

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Rails core

Michael K. - dunno, why, but over ssl, about 1/3rd the time, its accept header is filled with doc, xaml etc, but no html

Michael K. - I'm trying to figure out what triggers that...

David H. - You're saying that it isn't deterministic? That sounds crazy.

Michael K. - yeah, reminds me of javascript programming before sam fixed it

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“ The feeling I get when programming is at least as important as other factors when selecting a language. ”

Chad Fowler

Thu May 10

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Air – Mer du Japon

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Egg birdfeeder

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On the Suffering of Windows Users

Chad - Then it's only the windows users that suffer on the memory.

Jamis - They suffer so much already, they won't notice the difference

Chad - Exactly. it's like giving a slightly cheaper brand of ramen noodles to a college student.

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Fiscal year API

class FederalFiscalYear < FiscalYear
  starts_in 'October'
end

class StateFiscalYear < FiscalYear
  starts_in 'July'
end

>> puts fiscal_year = FederalFiscalYear.new(2007)
2006-10-01..2007-09-30
>> puts fiscal_year.quarters
2006-10-01..2006-12-31
2007-01-01..2007-03-31
2007-04-01..2007-06-30
2007-07-01..2007-09-30
>> puts fiscal_year.quarters.first.next_quarter
2007-01-01..2007-03-31

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“ Though, ill-smelling perhaps in largest first impression they are very is called weak point consciousness to my functional language private ones. ”

Translated Matz On Erlang

Wed May 9

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“ That’s the bear trap, your greatest vice. Your job. You can justify just about any behavior with it. Maybe thats why you do it, so you don’t have to deal with all those other problems. ”

Tom West

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The Laser Tag system by Graffiti Research Lab

Mon May 7

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“ As the Food Network and cookbook publishers have demonstrated over and over again, you’re way better off helping the perfect improve. ”

Seth Godin

Sun May 6

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Sat May 5

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What’s up Rory?

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Come on! Feel the Illinoise!

Sufjan Stevens

Fri May 4

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Rails core

Jeremy K. - IBM global services is going to lay off 100-150K employees

Jeremy K. - holy crap...that's half their workforce

Michael K. - 150k employees...to even have that many to fire is a sign something's up

Thu May 3

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Will Oldham on Soft Focus

Recorded at the Guggenheim.

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German coast guard

Wed May 2

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Tape faces, early 80’s

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“ I’ve not met anyone whose favorite philosopher is Deleuze who is not also an ass-hat. ”

Patrick Ewing

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Thu May 31

Tip Apple logo key combination

Wed May 30

Annie Oakley shooting glass spheres

Tue May 29

Mon May 28

Le Grand Content – made from the diagrams found at indexed

Sat May 26

#rails-contrib

Fri May 25

Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries

Thu May 24

Patrick to Marcel

Rails core

Wed May 23

Tip Olive oil and lemon juice

Kelly and Chad on the Oregon Coast

Tue May 22

David Foster Wallace in a September 1996 letter to Harper’s

Tip Build a Bat House

Garage through a screen door

Sat May 19

BabelFish and a Korean RailsConf article is a questionable decision

Thu May 17

Sam and Thomas at RailsConf

The original lolcat ?

Tue May 15

Hammock beneath the fig tree

William Butler Yeats in The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Mon May 14

Stuart Murdoch in Your Cover’s Blown

Tip Ghost Ridin’ the Whip

Rails core

Sun May 13

Lord Whimsy is ready for summer

Sat May 12

Verifier (from a rule engine)

1 2 3 4 by Feist

Fri May 11

Rails core

Thu May 10

Air – Mer du Japon

On the Suffering of Windows Users

Fiscal year API

Wed May 9

The Laser Tag system by Graffiti Research Lab

Mon May 7

Sun May 6

Sat May 5

What’s up Rory?

Fri May 4

Rails core

Thu May 3

German coast guard

Wed May 2

Tape faces, early 80’s