I just discovered a new and amazing phenomenon called Freecycle. I tried it today for the first time. The goal of the site is to help our growing landfill problem by playing matchmaker for unwanted yet still useful-to-someone items. This morning I listed about six items. Within hours I had more than 20 responses. People […]
Posted on July 7th, 2006 by Araceli
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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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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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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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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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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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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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