Category Archives: open.source

Competing in Rails Day 2006

Posted on June 16, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

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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Lucky Strike

Posted on May 11, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

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 …

Posted on May 6, 2006 by dreadpiratepj

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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