# Making me happy One of the things I want to do in 2015 is write more. This, like all New Year's type resolutions, is invariably doomed, but we'll take it as it comes. I also want to write more about things that aren't programming, because, well, there are a...

Here’s what’s going on. ## WindyCityRails Had another great time at [WindyCityRails](http://www.windycityrails.com). I enjoyed the talks, and it was great to meet new people/see people I don’t see enough in person. As usual, Ray and the WCR team had the logistics of the event down (even the WiFi was pretty...

It’s been well over a month since the last official update to [_Master Space and Time with JavaScript_](/mstwjs), and since I was hoping to get updates out more-or-less weekly, it’s probably a good idea to check in and let you know what’s going on. (Could be worse, though, I’m still...

The state of the Noel Rappin publishing — I can use the word “empire”, right? ## MSTWJS 3: Backbone _Master Space and Time With JavaScript, Book 3: Backbone_ is draft complete as of today’s release except for a page or so of summary at the end, which I will probably...

And now for a more inside-baseball post about how the self-publishing aspects of [Master Space and Time With JavaScript](/mstwjs) are going. Did you know you can [buy it](/mstwjs)? Short answer: Pretty well, though I could always have done better. Still unclear how this will work over the long haul. At...

I have a new book, [Master Space and Time With JavaSript](/mstwjs). You can [buy it](/mstwjs). Here’s the secret origin. This all started over a year ago. _Rails Test Prescriptions_ had been complete for a few months, and I was getting a little antsy to take on a new project. But...

Updates, schedules, things, and stuff. ## Scottish Ruby The Scottish Ruby conference is having a charity workshop June 28, and I’m presenting my “Advanced Rails Design” workshop. This is the extended dance mix version of the workshop I did at Mountain West Ruby earlier this year. I thought it went...

Here’s what I’ve got. 2 chapters introducing jQuery and Jasmine via a walkthrough of a simple piece of JavaScript functionality. 1 need to convert all my text from its current proprietary format to something more Markdown based. 1 genuinely silly conceit tying together the application that gets built in the...

So… The JavaScript book that I had contracted to do with Pragmatic will no longer be published by them. I need to be careful as I write about this. I don’t want to be defensive – I’m proud of the work I did, and I like the book I was...

Today is the RailsConf tutorial day, with the conference proper starting tomorrow. I was less disappointed than I thought I would be when my talks were not accepted, but I'm more disappointed than I thought I would be not to be going. Have fun, everybody. On the other side of...