Rails probably won’t be the next big thing. With behemoths like ASP.NET offering tight integration with existing desktop apps and household names like PHP now bundled with every Linux distribution, Rails doesn’t have enough to offer the run-of-the-mill web developer to win them over.
But some know.
Once you’ve learned Rails (and thus Ruby), you think of web application development in a whole new way. A way where anything’s possible, and changing the design on the fly does not have to be your most annoying pet peeve.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Sysadmin
It’s supposed to be easier this way, right? Doing virtual mail hosting with mbox files is just asking for it. My manager recommended dbmail over dovecot, and he’s a smart guy, so I’ll go with it. It can’t be that hard. Much to my chagrin, there isn’t a single recent howto on how to combine these pieces in a way that makes sense anymore. I’m having a hard time understanding how something so prolific as this has slipped through the cracks into open-source hell. Oh well…they pay me to find the answers, not to piss and moan about them.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Sysadmin
My heart bleeds as I try to rip it out of Ireland. I’ve been here three weeks now, but that’s nearly irrelevant–I was attached in the first few days.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Art, Change, Life, Music and Natural
I decided last night to pull out the sketch pad and oil pastels and flesh out some ideas I had for my upcoming EP. I hadn’t really touched pastels in a serious way since elementary school, so it was a messy experience. Thanks to some tips from roommate Mike, the product was much more than I had hoped it could be.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Art, Change, Music and Philosophy
I was tossing and turning just a minute ago, and yea [not yeah], I should be trying to sleep right now, but I had this idea and I just had to blog about it immediately (Katie, you know what I mean). Actually this idea occurred to me last night while I was reading a somewhat gruesome story in the book Velvet Elvis. The idea is that I spend more of my life imagining living than I do actually living.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Change and Philosophy
Quotations of an excellent song by a somewhat well-know artist (mewithoutYou) aside, Saturday was a pretty cool day. I woke up just after noon, did some baking, made a kick-butt salad, had a decent chat with a cool neighbor and learned I like the canceled TV series “Arrested Development”. The baking was particularly interesting.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Art, Change and Natural
In a few moments of excitement for the upcoming Ireland tour, I bought a few Skype goodies, including a Skype Pro subscription and SkypeIn phone numbers in both Wisconsin and Belfast. I got a little less than I had bargained for, unfortunately.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Change, Gripes, Money and Technology
It’s been a fantastic past few weeks. I’ve gotten plenty of time away from the cubicle, and I’m learning a lot about myself. I’ve been writing music, finding faith, meeting people and losing weight. Also, we traded Aer Lingus ~$1250 for three plane tickets to Ireland. Sweet.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Change and Gripes
One of the last things I did before becoming a poor traveling musician was to spend part of my final salary paycheck on one more Windows-on-Mac product: VMWare Fusion. My day job requires me to use some Windows apps (at least until Microsoft cranks out a Universal Binary version of Office this fall). My free time requires me to run Windows in Boot Camp so I can play Battlefield 2. I was tired of wasting precious harddisk real estate on two Windows installations. So how to boot Boot Camp in Parallels or Fusion?
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Change and Technology
After going part-time at work (yeah, so much for paying off the student loans), I’ve been traveling more playing music with the Katie Nelson band. I sure like not being at work, and since the rest of the trio is a bunch of health nuts, it became an excellent opportunity to take a look at a different lifestyle.
Read the rest of this entry »
Categorised in Change, Life, Music, Natural and Philosophy