I just cleaned up around this place, polishing and posting some drafts that have been sitting around for ages. There are a few gems hidden in the archives now!
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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Cleaning up
28-Aug-05Most people live defensively, responding to events as they occur, and neglect to live a life of their own choosing. As a result, they live in fear of the future and what it might bring. To live deliberately is to “choose your own adventure.” Here’s a few of my thoughts on doing just that.
Tag-nabbit
28-Aug-05I’ll probably use [this tag system][1] instead of the one I linked to yesterday; it seems a little more elegantly implemented and a little more feature-complete. What’s wonderful is that [TagTools][1] came out within 24 hours of the other. No time to wait, is there?
[1]: http://www.sporkmonger.com/articles/2005/08/28/tagtools-project
(And it uses the same style as the other tag […]
Why I love Rails
27-Aug-05Two pieces of Clutter development just got a whole lot simpler thanks to the hard work of other Rails developers… all the extra work I put into the tagging code can now be obsoleted and replaced with:
acts_as_taggable
thanks to [a little ActiveRecord wizardry][1]. And file uploads? Just as easy with […]
Am I Cool Yet?
27-Aug-05I had no idea that having a low [Slashdot][1] (news site for geeks) ID had become such a status symbol, but apparently it has. I just read a prominent tech industry leader note that his ID was ‘in the 400,000′ range.
Well, I didn’t realize just _how early_ into the dot-com boom I jumped in.
My Slashdot […]