Category Archive for: ‘Notes’

• Super Happy Dev House 5

  Well, it was a blast. Had I known that our host would want us to take off our shoes, I would have worn wool socks, because it was pretty cold. I got to meet a couple of people, including Andrew, who said that he’d come …

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• Internet Quizzes

  I generally avoid them like the plague, but was in an odd mood today. You scored as Paganism. Your beliefs are most closely aligned with those of paganism, Wicca, or a similar earth-based religion. You may also follow a Native American religion. Shocker, that. Not. …

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• Where I’ll be Nov 5

  Be there or be fourier transformed.

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• Women: the Technology Bell(e)wether

  When I first arrived at RubyConf, one of the first people I met said, “Wow. I think you’re the first woman ever at a RubyConf.” Since there were six women at RubyConf, I can’t say as I’m the first, since we all arrived at the …

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• Getting in the Zone

  I’ve been working to re-discover what music gets me into the right zone for certain deep-concentration work (including programming). My iPod shuffle just reminded me of a sort I’d quite overlooked: slack key guitar, particularly the Hawai’ian Slack Key Guitar Masters CDs. For those of …

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• Deirdre’s Gluten-Free Flour Mix

  As many of you know, I can’t eat wheat, rye, barley, or, in most cases, oats. This morning, Rick was going to make crepes, but the container of gluten-free flour I had was empty, so I had to mix some more. Bette Hagman, in her …

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• SubEthaEdit and Conference Notes

  One of the features commented upon at RubyConf was the high percentage of people using Macs: approximately 80%. Really! So, being enterprising folks, some people started conference notes for each session in SubEthaEdit, then sharing them for others to edit via Bonjour. Since many people …

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• Rails 1.0 Session

  David Heinemeier Hansson spoke about new features in Rails 1.0. Here are my notes on that talk in PDF form.

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• RubyConf

  So, here I am, at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning. Couldn’t get to sleep, so I got up for an hour, then tried to go to bed. I hear one of those sounds one should not hear — wet, gurgling, splashing sounds. Yep, toilet overflowing. …

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• Don’t Go All 37Signals On Me

  I just realized that I had three 37Signals application windows open (out of three browser windows): A client’s Basecamp My own Backpack with my flight info and so on for RubyConf My Tadalist! account that has my packing list.

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