So, the Rails team released Rails 3.0 yesterday, on my birthday. I am claiming it as my birthday present. Anyway, I ran a quick test on MetaWhere and MetaSearch and everything is still passing, so we should be good to go! Let me know if it’s not the case.
No, I don't work in NYC, DC, or the valley, and I'm cool with that.
Monthly Archives: August 2010
H8ball, the HTTP Status 8-ball
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So, there’s this pointless little side project I did last week. It’s called h8ball, and it’s completely stupid. I’ll say it first so you don’t have to. Still, I figured I’d make a quick post about it, all the same, just so you’d know how something so random and stupid came to be.
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Aug 26, 2010
Coder Archetypes: The Line Worker and the Artist
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It’s no secret that there are two types of coders out there. The first went out and got a CS degree because someone once told him that there’s a good future in anything having to do with computers. We’ll call him the Line Worker. The second has a passion for coding. His degree might not be in CS. He may not even have a degree (oh, the humanity!), but he loves to code. He’s an Artist. It’s not just a day job for him. Companies who don’t seek out and retain Artists are doomed.
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Aug 4, 2010
About
I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.