Casa Jonsson

Here are a couple of recent recordings I’ve made at Christ the King.

From February, Sarabanda from J. S. Bach’s D-minor Partita ( hi-fi and  lo-fi), truncated at the front due to technical difficulties in the sound system that morning
From August, Brahms’s Scherzo from the “FAE” Sonata ( hi-fi and  lo-fi)

Enjoy! 

Posted on October 22nd, 2007 by Nils
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I’ve been a delinquent blogger. Sorry about that.
As a peace offering I’ll link up two recordings I made in the last couple months. Both are live performances from worship services at our church: “Meditation (Psalm 19)” ( hi-fi or  lo-fi) and “This Is Food Indeed” ( hi-fi or  lo-fi).
Best to you and yours in 2007. 

Posted on January 1st, 2007 by Nils
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Somebody else also thinks Rails scaffolding could use an update. That’s gratifying. 

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by Nils
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I submitted another Rails patch the other day and this evening the mighty bitsweat committed it. I’m officially a Rails contributor! Aw yeeah! (does dorky victory dance)
The bug in question came to my attention when someone reported the same problem with my Trestle Generator. Two birds with one stone. 

Posted on June 30th, 2006 by Nils
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About three months ago I started publicly charting my blood-sugar levels. Since then I updated two charts daily in order to track a single measure: how well I’m doing at managing my Type-1 diabetes. This got me thinking about how to quantify blood-sugar control in one number instead of two or more.
If you’re diabetes chic […]

Posted on May 25th, 2006 by Nils
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I’ve posted the slides (PowerPoint or PDF) from my presentation to the Houston Ruby and Rails Users Group. 

Posted on May 23rd, 2006 by Nils
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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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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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It took a while but Eric’s first CD is finally finished. You can listen to track previews and buy the disc online.
There’s a hidden track on the album for you Easter egg hunters. It begins after the full minute of silence that follows “O Quickly Come,” the chilling final song. This devastating number needed some […]

Posted on December 24th, 2005 by Nils
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Last night I was spelunking through the automatically generated code of a Rails application I’m writing. I did a double-take when I came across the following line in ./config/environments/development.rb:
config.whiny_nils = true

You’d think that a Danish hacker would choose names for his Ruby attribute accessors that didn’t insult so many Swedes. Then again, maybe not; I know from […]

Posted on November 3rd, 2005 by Nils
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