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  • Rails Resources

    Shawn Medero asked for some Rails resources on Twitter last night, and here they are. All of the blogs are from my feed reader and the links are things that are pretty much always on one of my first five browser tabs. I’m sure I’m missing some great Ruby and Rails blogs from this list, so if you have any… bring ’em on.\
    Documentation:

    • Rails API
    • Ruby Docs
    • Rails Guides
    • Sinatra Rubygems – A great little app from Jesse Newland that serves up the RDocs for all your gems. I use it every day all the time on my laptop.

    Blogs:

    • Ruby Inside
    • Rails Machine
    • GIANT ROBOTS SMASHING INTO OTHER GIANT ROBOTS (seriously)
    • The Real Adam
    • Phusion
    • Intridea
    • Rails Tips
    • ones zeros majors and minors
    • Codefluency

    Books:

    • I use O’Reilly’s Ruby in a Nutshell as a desk reference all the time. It’s so worn out, I probably need to order another copy (although I do have the PDF now).
    • With Rails 3 just around the corner, I would wait if you want to get a Rails book. Maybe start with the Manning Early Access Program and get Rails 3 In Action

    I only listen to one Ruby podcast: Ruby5 – It’s only a couple times a week and only 5 minutes at a time, which is perfect for short attention spans.

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    July 22, 2010
  • 10 Years

    I’ve been blogging, right here, for ten years. The first post on lawver.net was on 07/20/2000 and didn’t say a whole lot. Since then, though, Jen and I have posted 2,631 entries. Jen didn’t start blogging here until about 2005, so out of that, almost 2,000 of them are mine.

    I don’t think I’ve stuck with a hobby longer than this, except maybe collecting comic books when I was a kid (non-stop from age eleven until 22 and then off and on collections).

    I’m pretty proud of this little blog. Yes, the design is old, and it’s slow at times. But, it’s a record of our lives over the last ten years that I wouldn’t have otherwise.

    Here’s to the next ten and whatever comes next.

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    July 20, 2010
  • Today’s Idea: TED Lesson Plans

    While we were up in DC for Steve’s wedding, TEDx Creative Coast happened down here in Savannah. I’ve had several conversations with folks about how high energy it was and how excited everyone was about the event, and that there has to be some way to keep that energy going.

    I got to thinking about it, and how cool would it be to create lesson plans for teachers around TED talks? They could show the video, then have a discussion with the kids, or some activity around the topics discussed in the video.

    I don’t have time to implement it, but I’m putting the idea out there in case someone wants to run with it. I figure it could be a wiki, or something wiki-like, where you take the video, and then build the lesson plan below it.

    I’m not sure TED has an API for pulling all the talks, but it wouldn’t be too hard to scrape the podcast feed and do it auto-magically.

    If you do something like this, or know of something that already exists, let me know!

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    June 23, 2010
  • Family wedding

    Kevin’s youngest brother got married on Friday. Here are some pics from the day:

    Brian fell asleep on the ten-minute car ride to the ceremony:

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    The groom:

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    Max and Kevin’s sister:

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    Kevin and me:

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    Kevin posted others here.

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    June 20, 2010
  • They’re preaching to the choir here…

    But still funny and worth watching (NOT SAFE FOR WORK):

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    June 8, 2010
  • Forgotten kidlets

    The school bus has forgotten one of my kids at school twice this year! What’s up with that? When asked, I tell people how much I like the school and how surprised I am to find it better than the vaunted Northern Virginia school system we left. Stop making me out to be a liar, school bus driver!

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    June 4, 2010
  • Random question time

    When the host on Clean House is trying to get a homeowner to give up sentimental but useless clutter, how come she never suggests taking pictures of the items before getting rid of them? Usually a person in this situation is holding on to things from a recently deceased loved one, things the homeowner doesn’t particularly care for except as a way to keep the deceased close. The latest example of this is a collection of painted eggs. The homeowner simply had them in a basket, stuck on top of a bunch of other clutter. She didn’t really have a use for them, nor was she displaying them, but she just couldn’t get rid of them. It seems having a picture of each egg and them grouped together would have helped her get rid of them more easily. The show let her keep one, and nicely displayed it in her living room, by the way. So that was nice, But I still maintain pictures would’ve helped her get there faster.

    Just wondering.

    PS- Remind me of this if and when I start screaming, “No, no, no, over my dead body” about my mom’s sheep collection, some of which are almost life-size. 😛

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    June 3, 2010
  • Happy June!

    There are so many great things happening this month.

    • The kids get out of school.
    • My oldest nephew comes home from Afghanistan. \0/
    • Kevin’s youngest brother is getting married. Woot.
    • Kevin’s grandma is having the first of her 80th birthday parties while we’re all together for the wedding.
    • Kevin’s other brother, who is in the Air Force, completes his psychiatry residency and moves to his first real assignment. Making this even better, he got orders to his first choice base, which is near his wife’s family. YAY!

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    June 1, 2010
  • Summer lovin, happened so fast

    Kevin wants to be all do-ey and create-y this summer, which I fully support. But I am not sure what I can do to be all do-ey and create-y too. Normally, I would throw myself into (finally) decorating our room. But it’s a rental, so I don’t want to spend that much time or energy on it. Same with the yard and gardening. Maybe I’ll take up splatter painting!

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    May 28, 2010
  • Almost paradise, we’re knocking on heaven’s door

    My MIL has a set of really cool two-sided 5×7 picture frames. I’ve coveted them ever since I first spotted them. I have a hard time picking which pictures to display, (and so I don’t display any) but with these two-sided ones, you can have twice as many available for viewing! And the 5×7 size is perfect for the professional pics we’ve had taken. I’ve been googling for ages for frames similar but haven’t ever found any. Until now. Lookie, from Bed, Bath, and Beyond:

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    Do you see how awesome these are? Can you image how good a pair of these would look in my room? And they are even situated for regular 5x7s and sideways ones.

    BUT! Why is there a white line painted on the glass? Booooooooooooooo.

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    May 28, 2010
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