Tonight I’m releasing my first Rails plugin. This is the result of about half the work I did with my team at Rubyred Labs at Yahoo Hack Day 2006. I wrote the guts, but generous amounts of Rails plugin goodness were provided by Scott Fleckenstein.

The Plugin:

It’s a drop-in addition to ActionController that allows you to […]

Since school ended, I’ve been up to my ears in Rubyred. It’s been great, and I get to have weekends now, instead of homework. But, the real point of this post is to share how much fun we have workin’ down at the ranch…

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Phew! I’ve been so damn busy lately I literally forgot that I have a blog. What a doof.

So what have I been up to? Let’s see, I…

Wrote a special purpose peer-to-peer client using Rails for my Distributed Software Dev class
Did a ton of work on RSyndicate (almost [...]

Spring semester officially begins today. What does that mean for me? It means I’ll be attending class again for the first time in about 6 weeks. What a strange feeling.

I was used to the quarter system at UC Davis, but USF is a semester school. I can tell you that I like semesters a whole […]

This might piss off all (3?) of my readers… but I’m just writing a post because I need it for testing. Yeah, it’s for work. Yeah, I know I never write. It’s because I’m busy :-).

The test data:

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Do not be afraid. Bubble 2.0 has not popped. This post is not about the collapse of any “businesses“.

It’s about how I can’t drink beer, and how that makes internetland (a.k.a. San Francisco) a little bit less charming. You see, I was afflicted this holiday weekend. Just after midnight on Thanksgiving day (that’s before any […]

Finally the chains have been released.

It’s a good thing that I just discovered this windfall of beer money. The project from hell has finally come to an end. Now, I think knowledge representation in the computing world is a really interesting problem, and there are many approaches to solving this problem already out there in […]