The Rails Rumble took place this past weekend, and together with fellow raleigh.rb‘ers Mark Bennett and Nathaniel Talbott we formed a team. 48 hours, one go-cart race, and several Wii games later we finished our creation and dubbed it Link Tipping. Link Tipping is very similar to digg, except instead … Continue reading
Raleigh, the city that I live in, recently implemented stage one water restrictions. This means I can water with a sprinkler once a week, and by hand with a hose twice a week. This simplifies my life. Whereas I once had to be concerned about watering every other day, now … Continue reading
These are the slides from the presentation I gave at the Agile RTP user group on August 7th. It was a great experience and I appreciate everyone showing up. The talk generated some good discussion. I was hoping to post these sooner. Sorry for the delay. I look forward to … Continue reading
Here’s your friendly reminder that the next raleigh.rb meetup is TONIGHT! Brenton Leanhardt will be introducing us to the wonders of testing our Ruby apps with Selenium. Get yourself a full description of the talk and directions to Red Hat on the Meetup page. I think it’s safe to say … Continue reading
For the homeschoolers who read my blog, I’ll be speaking at the North Carolinians for Home Education (NCHE) state conference in Winston-Salem again this year. I’m giving my distance education talk on Saturday, May 26th, from 12:30 to 1:30 PM in South Main 3. A few of the points I’ll … Continue reading
37 Signals’ latest web application, Highrise, is now open for business. They offer a free account so you can try out the service without laying down any dinero. Looks like a useful tool. It’ll be interesting to see how tightly it integrates with Basecamp.
Have you wondered how to effectively synch bookmarks between work and home? I discovered the Foxmarks plugin for Firefox almost by accident last week and it does the trick for me. Better still, it’s fast and lightweight, the perfect companion for an agile developer. Foxmarks installs into Firefox in seconds. … Continue reading
I got tagged by my friend Jared Richardson on Wednesday. Now I’m supposed to blog about five things that people don’t know about me. Oh joy. I have to actually do some thinking? This might hurt. I’ve lived in seven different states over my 25 years of existence. I’ve visited … Continue reading
Getting Things Done is a book by David Allen. The methodology from the book, commonly referred to as GTD, has become quite popular inside certain tech circles. I’ve been using GTD for roughly a year now. I can’t claim to be an expert at it, but it’s helped me stay … Continue reading
RailsConf registration is open. Time to scramble! From what I understand one-third of the seats are already taken. I’ll be speaking at the conference this year. Should be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. See you there.