May 2009
36 posts
investing in startups is nail-biting stuff when it’s your own bank account.
Now *this* is cycling weather!
Jesus staring into a marmite pot != comforting: http://bit.ly/E6hBr
Impersonating a drowned rat on the 7:45 to Cambridge. Dreaming of hot tea.
Nice day, washing bike with a cup of tea. A sort of perfection.
The Japanese media is obsessed with “suwain furu”. yawn.
If learning #Django, ignore the tutorial and go straight to V2.0 of The Book: http://bit.ly/u5Ji. Much better.
oh my. #sinatra is friday afternoon sweetness.
Just realised that since getting #spotify I’ve stopped putting the TV on for noise. ☆☆☆☆☆
This morning I woke up tapping my gf’s face trying to turn off the alarm on my iphone. Something is wrong.
Sunny day in camb. Ah the smell of summer!
Something magical about reclining on alexandra palace hill and looking at the stars with friends.
With Stella.
Ok. Iflash now on applestore for free. am sated.
Digging through Django, first impressions are that it’s more conceptually (and syntactically) similar to .NET MVC than rails
Django. Velocity ~= 0
with the new nested forms in #Rails, implementing something like the #Django admin should be pretty possible.
the Django tutorial looks nice, but the last bit it utter poo.
#Django The last bit of the tutorial on Generic Views,culminating in an abomination of a final paragraph made me want to gouge my eyes out.
tapping my way through the Django tutorial at work - seems strange to be being paid to learn new tools that are actually good.
Font linking in browsers coming 2009 →
Finally - the web is about to be opened up with downloadable and embed-able fonts in web pages. This is really going to make the web explode. Again.
Oh yay! Flight of the Conchords have made it to spotify: spotify:album:2JDa0xMT6iB6RI9Xwhw7SP
#spotify is opening me up to classical music properly for the first time. Rachmaninov FTW.
Regedit open on bank of Ireland ATM. No wonder the banks are in trouble. http://twitpic.com/4v0tl
Matz talk at #euruko live stream: http://www.citilab.eu/streaming-citilab
Reccomending shopify. It a bit pricey, but is a no brainer for newcomers to online.
The Google search volume for “Ruby on Rails” has started to *gain* ground since the end of 2008 http://bit.ly/MkTMS
Have to code tonight, but want to watch star trek!
Oh, so *that’s* what the debugger is for in Eclipse. Enjoying JSON + Flex purgatory.
I know this sounds sucky, but Guy Kawasaki’s “reality check” has turned up on my doorstep in Amazon cardboard. Looks like a great read.
As an Engine Yard Solo customer, I’ll be interested to see how good their response to #heroku is. Hope it’s a fair fight.
Testing #heroku this evening. First impressions are that it’s fantastic, amazing work. Maybe this is the carrot I need to move to postgres..
#microsoft - I wonder how long it will be till Steve Ballmer steps down or is pushed out by shareholders?
Kenickie, At the Club still filling me with joy after all these years: spotify:album:4VrMUdqrKKlydpoIvJbaB6
RT @fearoffish: “Apple is in late stage negotiations to buy Twitter and is hoping to announce it at WWDC in June” for $700 million. Cor.
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