Author Archives: dreadpiratepj

About dreadpiratepj

I have been goofing around with computers since May 1978, when I was about seven years old. For the past decade, I've even managed to have people pay me for this! Suckers! :-)

It’s official … today is my own personal hell ;-)

My webmail app for Rails Day 2006 has the all-popular tagging capability (i.e. what GMail calls “labels”.) In the spirit of agile development, Rails has a plugin called acts_as_taggable, that lets developers add tagging to their applications without a whole … Continue reading

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Four hours in, twenty to go …

I just spent about two hours getting all my unit and functional tests to pass for basic authentication functionality. Not good. I should have nailed that down in under 40 minutes. I got little more than nineteen hours to go. … Continue reading

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Competing in Rails Day 2006

In just over three hours, I will be competing in Rails Day 2006. It’s a coding competition, where you are only allowed to use Ruby on Rails to create a full web app in 24 hours. I have a thermos … Continue reading

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Google Juice Fiends

Over the last month, I’ve been doing some late late night web work for free for some old college friends. Emphasis on old, ha ha! Hi Nads! Hi Erin! These friends have been wonderful to me through the years, taking … Continue reading

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Lucky Strike

This past Monday, I started a new exciting, but short chapter in my self-employment. A few hours after I had posted my last entry, I received an email from a good friend down here in PR, asking if I was … Continue reading

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Working hard, hardly working …

Hello, gang. My two year old start up went belly up for lack of funds in February, and life has been interesting since, to say the least. It was an open source company/experiment, so the products we created are still … Continue reading

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Too long gone …

Thanks to my loving audience for their patience! I am back after some technical difficulties. It all began around March eight, when my PowerBook started having bouts of narcolepsy while I was working on it, going to sleep on me … Continue reading

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Out of commission

Sorry for the lack of posts, but my PowerBook is being repaired. I’ll be back soon, and let you in on the saga.

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They Might Be Giants Podcast

I just discovered today, that They Might Be Giants has a podcast! I’m way late in discovering this, as the first episode was from the summer of 2005. They have released three episodes so far. I don’t know how often … Continue reading

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My Changing Attitudes in Media Choices

I have been listening to podcasts and watching videoblogs since September 2004. As the first podcasts and videoblogs improved the value in their content, I started to see a trend in myself. I stopped listening to the radio. I stopped … Continue reading

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