Where the hell have you been?
Man have I been busy the last two weeks what with travelling and doing projects for other people, feels like I never get time to write a blog post - which of course will be my excuse. You see I get home from work have some dinner, do a bit of a project and before you know it the night has gone, gone like the acting skills of Keanu Reeves in, well anything?
I’ve missed youtube Friday twice now and quite frankly that just needs to be sorted out right now. So bring on youtube Friday. Before I post some videos I’d like to bore you, come on entertain me for a second or too - I’m of course talking about what I’m up to and stuff.
Lately I have been busy doing a website for someone which I initially started in cakePHP and switched to rails - don’t ask me why!? Maybe it’s because I’m a fan boy (GO RAILS, GO APPLE!) and like a good fanboy I do as I’m told. Not to say I don’t like cake, I love cake! Frameworks in general are just a really neat idea.
I did manage to finish the project from scratch in a weekend though - which was handy and I even tried JRails to replace prototype with jquery, much much better and all the helpers and RJS I normally use still work.
While we’re in that framework sort of area - I’m going to relearn the limited python I know and do readinfra.com in django and here’s the twist I might just record screencasts of what I learn and how I learned it right from the beginning so if anyone else wants to pickup python and/or django feel free to watch along.
For the project I did at the weekend I decided to switch to using GIT to revision control it, and I has to say I do really like it. Yes! More fanboyisum but I just love how quick it is, how easy it is to do branches. I actually use branches now with SVN I’d always create a branches folder but did I ever use it? Nope. For readinfra I’m going to try Mercurial (HG) though see if I perfer that to git, has better windows support and while I personally don’t care about that as I don’t ever see myself trying to run rails/python apps on windows and pretty much always developing on my Mac, others however may differ so easier for team projects.
Enter youtube fun
The first video I’m posting is of good ol’ Thom. Thought I’d start off with a quite video but doesn’t Thom just look the perfect picture of strange folk at the start, when he takes a nice glare at the crowd. Anyhow enjoy - oh and shutup Jools.
The second video is from someone accross the pond, so to speak from Thom. Stephen Malkmus, singing in a lift, while clapping.
I’m a new soul, I came to this strange world, Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take, But since I came here, felt the joy and the fear, Finding myself making every possible mistake…..macdell air.
Ah, Tony and Bush - at the gay bar?
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