April 2009
16 posts
had fun cooking up a storm with @annawchin. she made macaroons while I made quiches and stuffed squash. amazingly there were no injuries.
Saw #stateofplay w/ anna last night. Enjoyable film, with interesting subtle politics. But the highlight by far was Jason Batemen!
wow! streaming my music library off @zumodrive actually works. I’m impressed but I’m not sure it’s worth the monthly cost.
So it looks like you can ask questions on tumblr...
This is a pretty slick feature! Also, I love this approach to soft-launching features: keep them hidden from the UI, but discoverable by those interested enough to look. (Tip: to activate it you have to end a title with a question mark)
amused—but not surprised—that @michaelknapp lost his iPhone in the bathroom trash.
Driving my car for the first time this week. That feels good!
What did you do today?
Seeing that an entire house had been demolished in the span of time while I was at work yesterday got me to thinking about one of the harder things I find with working as a programmer: much of our time goes into work which can really only be appreciated by others in our field. I find I very rarely have an answer most people would find interesting to the question ‘what did you do...
Prepare for Automatic Update distribution of IE8 →
It’s finally happening! This is huge.
Sent in my MBP to apple for repair Monday afternoon, just got it back. Nice! Bummed they wiped the HD, though. Oh well.
The VT Six
Anne Donahue, R-Northfield
Richard Hube, R-Londonderry
Patti Komline, R-Dorset
Heidi Scheuermann, R-Stowe
Richard Westman, R-Cambridge
Kurt Wright, R-Burlington
In the end it was these six republican reps who made today’s veto override a reality. Thanks to them thinking deeper than then their party’s line, VT is the first state to legislatively legalize same-sex marriage. ...
accepts_nested_attributes_for / fields_for /...
I figured it was ripe time I figured out the new nested model forms in Rails 2.3. After a bit of wrestling with the various pieces I got it working and figured I should share with a Google a few key pieces which would have saved me a lot of time had I found them documented when I was searching.
In this particular case I was nesting a has_one relationship, here are the relevant bits of what...
“I am a devout Catholic, my religion at this point would not want me to vote for...”
– VT Rep. Sonny Audette on his vote against same-sex marriage in VT.
I can appreciate his candor, but isn’t this just wrong? He’s supposed to be representing his constituents in South Burlington, not the Catholic church.
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