A Houston-area user group for Ruby and Rails is getting off the ground. In our May meeting I’ll be giving a presentation on the Trestle Generator open-source project I started a few months ago. It’s an extension to the Ruby on Rails web application development framework.
Should be a good time. By geek standards, that is.
Posted on April 4th, 2006 by Nils
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I while back I plugged TaskToy as a good way to start Getting Things Done. I still think it’s a cool tool, but yesterday I came across something that may replace TaskToy as my web browser’s start page: NextAction.
NextAction, like TaskToy, is free, runs in my web browser and is a way of organizing and […]
Posted on March 28th, 2006 by Nils
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The last 3½ weeks have not been the easiest time for Casa Jonsson. During the last weekend of January we were at our kindergartener’s first piano recital when our newborn had what appeared to be some sort of seizure. We spent the next three days in the neonatal ICU ruling out seizures and heart problems […]
Posted on February 21st, 2006 by Nils
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Inhalable insulin is in the headlines these days. Ho hum. Some people may benefit from it but I personally would rather continue poking myself with needles four times a day than breathe the stuff.
What I do find very exciting is that Abbott reportedly claims this is the year they’ll release the first mass-market continuous blood […]
Posted on February 13th, 2006 by Nils
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Today is the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. In honor of him I offer you this silent, poor-man’s video of me playing a piece by a composer whose work he admired and promoted, namely, J. S. Bach.
That’s not a goatee I’m wearing. I’m picking my nose with a microphone.
This picture was taken at my company’s […]
Posted on January 27th, 2006 by Nils
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Our church is putting on a “Greatest Hits Night”—an evening of live music that was heard in our worship services during the year. It’s a time of fellowship, food, fun, and worship for the church. It’s also an opportunity for members to invite friends and family from outside the church who might find an evening […]
Posted on January 20th, 2006 by Nils
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Our fourth son was born last week. While we were still in the hospital I managed to put the finishing touches on a contribution to an open-source project. I submitted my first patch for Ruby on Rails. The core team has yet either to apply or reject my patch, but in the meantime I started […]
Posted on January 5th, 2006 by Nils
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Maybe it’s just me, but did anyone else cringe upon seeing the poster for Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie due out next summer?
Think about it: a movie with the dubious name “Apocalypto” from the director of The Passion of the Christ, and the tag line reads, “When the end comes, not everyone is ready to go.” […]
Posted on December 21st, 2005 by Nils
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You may have noticed how much I admire Ed Clowney and his preaching. I just ran across an audio archive of sermons from Trinity Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, Virginia where he served as theologian-in-residence 1984–1990 and again from 2003 until his death in March of this year. Trinity has 23 of his sermons—nearly 26 hours of […]
Posted on December 19th, 2005 by Nils
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A few weeks ago I bought a copy of Getting Things Done for a friend. In general this is something people do with books they’ve taken the time actually to read first, but I knew enough about the content to make the elevator pitch convincing. This isn’t the first time I’ve encouraged someone to try […]
Posted on December 15th, 2005 by Nils
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