2008/03
My Favorite Monkeys
New post at Pathfinder on monkey patching.
Beep Repaired
I don’t know what this says about me, or anybody else for that matter…
I’ve been a huge Tom Lehrer fan ever since my 8th Grade Social Studies teacher decided to warp all our minds by playing “That Was the Year That Was” during a reading period. (It was 1985, so it’s not like the recording was current or anything…) I was pretty instantly hooked, and a few years later when his albums were re-released on CD, bought them instantly, and have more-or-less memorized them.
The Average Programming Book
One weird aspect of being a published writer is that you get very little information about sales. You see your own numbers (several months after the fact), but there’s no larger context, and no sense of what a reasonable expectation of sales might be.
Which is why I love it when O’Reilly Radar puts up one of their periodic looks at the computer book market. I haven’t pored over stat line like this since I collected baseball cards when I was ten.
iPhone SDK
I’m trying to figure out exactly why I’m so psyched by the Apple iPhone SDK announcement. The basic announcement wasn’t a surprise, and I don’t even own an iPhone. I did, however, dig out my Cocoa programming book and start studying.
Further thoughts:
The tools themselves seemed somewhat slicker than what was expected – a lot of Mac developers were pleasantly surprised that Interface Builder was included (although apparently it’s not in the first beta).
Pathfinder Post: Using Null Objects with ActiveRecord
Enjoy:
http://blogs.pathf.com/agileajax/2008/03/using-the-null.html
Cuts Like A Knife
SF Movie Review: Battlestar Galactica: Razor (Continuing the enlargement of things I write about on this site, and I think this will be the last post containing a disclaimer about topics…)
I’m not sure what this says about me or my relationship to this show, but the following is all true:
I bought this DVD the day it came out (I don’t get Sci-Fi at the moment…) I then let it sit for three entire months while waiting for the right time to watch it in one sitting.
Using Active Record For Migrations
New post on the pathfinder blog:
Using ActiveRecord to Migrate Legacy Data
Enjoy!