Confounding URL typists since 2007.
If you get a free moment, and don’t mind parting with one of your Twitter follows (OK, you can always navigate away if you chicken out) try out Reaper, my latest little Twitter toy. Twitter app development is really a lot of fun, compared to Facebook apps. I think I’m addicted. :)
If you’re reading this, then DNS has propagated and you’re viewing this site on its new home in Linode’s Newark data center. After 3+ years with Slicehost, I was convinced to sign up with Linode by the promise of getting double the memory allotment at the same price I was paying before, and some really promising competitive benchmarks between the services. So far, I’m liking what I’ve seen.
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I finally decided to dump Apache and set up nginx on this server last night. Took a bit of work to get everything up and running the way I’d like, but so far it seems to have been worth the effort. If anything’s broken, contact me on , e-mail, or just drop a comment right here. Thanks!
As the sole developer on most of the projects I use git with, I generally know who breaks my code: me. However, when attempting to maintain Rails plugins that do some pretty intrusive stuff in core Rails functionality, I find myself waking up some mornings, doing a git pull in my vendor/rails submodule, and finding a bunch of failing tests. Then, I go get some coffee, and spend a bit of time scratching my head over what just caused the breakage. It comes with the territory. Still, better to track 3-0-stable as changes come along than scramble to figure this stuff out all at once and release a new version of MetaWhere every time a new Rails gem is released, right? Thus began my love affair with git bisect.
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