Recently (albeit it seems a few years after a lot of my fellow developers) I’ve dug into kōans. A kōan (Chinese 公案, Korean 공안, I had to put the symbols, but I just find them awesome 🙂 ) is a fundamental part of the history and lore of ZenBuddhism. It consists of a story, dialogue,... Continue reading →

This is just a quick getting started I walked through to get Sinatra going on OS-X. 1sudo gem install sinatra 2sudo gem install shotgun 3sudo gem install haml 4sudo gem install unicorn After installing these things I created a new folder in a Rubymine Project. New Empty Project in Rubymine I added a Ruby Class... Continue reading →

A few steps when setting up Gemsets with RVM. With a few other commands that can often be helpful. Just a quick Friday night entry… cheers! Functionality by line: Get a list of the current available gemsets. Creates a gemset called theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. Lists the name of the current gemset. Delete the gemset named theNameOfTheSiteToCreate. This... Continue reading →

Arrived around 8:20am “ish”. @juliaferraioli & cohort were registering people. The @AWSstartups crew was there including @Jeffbarr, also @shanley, @Alex_donn, @JamesPearce, and others were already getting things put together. I decided to happily plunk down in a chair and get going. I had zero plan, but only a single goal. Make a web app that... Continue reading →

Years ago I worked with Linux (Redhat 3.2, SUSE, Gentoo, and Slackware among others) and also played around with PHP. I’ve never really gotten too keen in PHP, mainly because it just seemed sort of a mess. But when I needed something to get the job done and didn’t want to wait on the bureaucratic... Continue reading →