the season

[kinra]

You know, when I talked about it being "recombinant" season, I really had no idea, and I mean I really had no idea. How word spreads! But I digress.

A killer app is loose. Ruby on Rails hit 1.0 and that's kinda cool for people who want to make, like, websites without the sort of brain-bending configuration issues that made a mockery of my sleep schedule for several weeks this summer and several days last month. At the site you can find out more, and much as I like (and will need to master more of) Python as a language and direction, Rails is almost too easy, and all of a sudden you can have a web database.

Also... movies I want to see whiz past me so fast my saccades are gonna need coffee. Syriana, Wardrobe, Munich, Kong, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and about fifteen others. I count myself fortunate to've caught Harry Potter even. Books and movies, how I miss them. For some reason determining the order and properties of Abelian and non-Abelian groups doesn't fill the void. It's not that I don't love math, it's that I love everything and studying math doesn't leave room for much else. This also means that commonperson, 2ndaryairplane and saucyvixen get less bodies to throw in the way of their "incomings". Also that I haven't seen them barely at all. -> Sad Panda.

And... more Seleucid madness in that corner of the earth. Others would have more to say on this -- I shall head over to Aqoul to see what there is to say about Syria and Lebanon these days.

From the heavy to the weightless... my shiny (jet) Motorola V3 has decided that a working display is old news, and all the cool kids are not displaying information. Consequently it is not working as a display, merely as a dialpad. I guess I'll have to see whether other of its brethren are similarly disinclined to exhibitionism. 'Cause cellphones shouldn't just have blank screens.

Aaaahhh... my updates are so often so infrequent that I feel I should vent thoroughly. But I won't. I'll do little one-word synopses of things, like Retrocity Friday Good, or Family In Florida, Grandmother Okay But Dwindling. National Anthems rehearsal with XTX (my unclever name for the Torontonian Tonal Ecstasy alumni who'll be singing at the Marlies' game).

Other stuff will be addressed in another post.

Comments

[saucyvixen.livejournal.com]

I miss you!

*hugs*

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

Ruby on Rails is hot. ASP.Net and JSP are suckas.

[mr-weasel.livejournal.com]

A killer app is loose. Ruby on Rails hit 1.0 and that's kinda cool for people who want to make, like, websites without the sort of brain-bending configuration issues that made a mockery of my sleep schedule for several weeks this summer and several days last month.

Ooo, that looks cool. Is Python the language used for this? I can't wait to get home fiddle with it.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

It actually uses Ruby. I don't know too much about Ruby other than it's a scripting language, and Trev likes it.

[the-fury.livejournal.com]

Even though I'm a huge fan of Ruby, I'm not all that hot on RoR yet. For some reason, it just doesn't seem as clean as the source language. Which is too bad, 'cause this is the sort of app/framework that can exponentially reduce your workload.

Maybe I need to do a bit more work with it. I'll throw it on my box again.

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Maybe I need to do a bit more work with it. I'll throw it on my box again.

Something about "yo momma" and "last night" would be appropriate here, but I just can't figure it out. Either way, comedy gold. Comedy pyrite, at the very least.