November 2007
59 posts
how do I store session data for ARes objects… oh, duh. ARes love loading/dumping xml. *facepalm*
I’m 26.414 years old today. earth years.
so wired, so tired. CEO seems to agree simple == good. Designer off in crayon land a-working. jesse sleeping now for sure.
friendster now in spanish! how *does* one say “irrelevant” en español?
“we’re competing with all theses vertical and we differentiate from them by offering a universal tool for all service providers” *sigh* :(
trek does not like when people stop twittering (@drchuck @sbrittain) how am I supposed to stalk you?!?!!!!one!!!eleven!!!
dhh bitched about our rails patch (http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10088) I think that’s some kind of right of passage. :D
the CEO and I just have different architecture philosophies. Causes me the pains. :-/
w00t! scared the CIO offline!
back to the grind. *sigh* winter darkness hurts me.
chipotle with will
my boss wants me out in amsterdam for 4-8 weeks (at double pay)… meh, dunno.
with goat cheese. A salad isn’t bearable without goat cheese.
out having a night off.
laaaate breakfast at cloverleaf.
awful time at the gym. Eating a salad.
relaxing in bed. Nice to chill a bit. Hopefully meeting with designer soon
been coding all day… time to test, test, test, test, test… test.
forgot just how awesome alias_method_chain was for writing rails modules.
@nikasmith users can never adapt to new ideas. we must keep foisting upon them proven UIs and patterns. the mouse was a mistake!
quitting caffeine. Do try to stay on my good side for the next few days.
trek: rails ajax helpers. so ugly. cannot wait until they rip that shit out and let it die. Unobtrusive JS FTW!
trek: awkward waiter at TK Wu very inattentive.
trek: umbs:Final notes:Repository with no integration is simply uninteresting past 2003. Apologies to everyone for polluting twitter feeds! 0:-)
trek: umbs: well, no word on the API. Overall, pretty “meh” of a system still, even after all these years and all that money.
trek: imbs “how could I incorporates the video and images as the text of our conversations?”
trek: imbs: real faculty user talking about music/performance as basis class conversation.
trek: @sbrittai would be freaking out right now. “YES, but what EFFECT does it have! What effect!?!”
trek: umbs: L. King: “I could list off the hundreds of features”… oh welcome back to 1999. Features are king! *snore*
trek: umbs: what BS does that can’t be done elsewhere: terabytes of storage, metadata search, infinite hierarchy (sounds like OS X + RAID)
trek: umbs: L. King talking again about what BS is and does.
trek: umbs: talking about Dan’s SPI (Standardized Patient Interaction) project and use in bluestream… the voice to text is nifty but inaccurate
trek: trying to tie iTunes U to bluestream somehow… seems weak.
trek: Dennis talking about my old project http://www.dent.umich.edu/itunes/
trek: umbs: Inappropriate visual effects galore. Deanlet Dennis Lopatin (Dental) up next.
trek: umbs: “we want this to be the year we see academic outcomes”… what, 5 years into the project? :p
trek: umbs: according to williams, we are 3 years ahead of MIT and claims google said we were 5 years ahead of their media manage apps. riiiiight.
trek: umbs: john williams. “this is a very complex environment.
trek: umbs: a focus on education outcomes.
trek: UM bluesteam presentation.
trek: after a day on leopard, tiger feels downright foreign.
trek: I need more NPCs in my life
trek: @mathieutozer I could lie and say that was an american euphamism for something naughty, but, alas - I was only baking.
trek: “Baffled at Blackboard, suffering in Sakai, muddled by Moodle?”
trek: UM’s bluestream project is teh lame. Let’s hope its new API is awesome (how much you wanna bet it’s sucky and 1999ish like CTools)
trek: oh! my muffins are done.
trek: fulling intending to work… sleep caught me and forced a vacation.
trek: best 2 hour vacation ever. back to work!
trek: moving on to borders
trek: @ beaners on Liberty, doing some coding :D. Come get Rails help!